Tensions are high between Egypt and Hamas in Gaza, after an Egyptian court designated the group’s armed wing as terrorists and Hamas accused Egypt of attacking their outposts in Gaza. Daily News Egypt, citing Egyptian state media, reported that over…
The Israelis aren’t the only ones concerned about terrorism coming from the Gaza Strip—Ahram Online is reporting the Egyptians are demolishing more than 800 homes of their own people in the Sinai region that neighbors Gaza in an effort to…
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…
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…
It’s not often that dozens of rocket attacks and Israeli military strikes in response aren’t the only headlines that matter in the Middle East. But right now, they’re not even the only headlines that count in Israel or Gaza. More…