Two new governments have been sworn into power in the last week in the Middle East, the new Palestinian one and newly elected President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. Yet while the Palestinian government has the backing of the terrorist Hamas group,…
With presidential elections in Egypt just days away (May 26-27), former defense minister and Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has already scored a sizable victory among expatriate Egyptians voting from abroad. Sisi won nearly 300,000 such votes, compared to 17,207…
Things in the Middle East may be about to heat up even more, if the former military head of Egypt wins the presidential elections in the country later this month. Egyptian media have reported that former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah…
For roughly one week, Egypt was set to receive renewed US military financial aid for counterterrorism. But one US senator has put his foot down and held up the $650 million worth of aid over Egypt’s human rights concerns, and…
It was a subtle move last week, the US agreeing to send less than a dozen Apache attack helicopters to Egypt. Less subtle, but still quiet, was the American dismay at the alliance between the so-called “moderate” Palestinians in the…
Sometimes there are not just good guys and bad guys—there are bad guys and worse guys as well. That’s apparently the perspective the US is taking after they decided to send Egypt 10 Apache attack helicopters to help the Egyptian…