Special to WorldTribune.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not meet with Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi until Egypt lifts the death sentences of Mohammed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders. “My stance on that issue is clear; in the first place, I will not meet Sisi until the decisions of death penalty […]
Special to WorldTribune.com It’s crunch time for Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi as the lengthy process of choosing a new government is underway. Much of what Sisi hopes to accomplish is riding on elections for the new House of Representatives. Half of the country will vote on Oct. 18 and 19 and the other half […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russia’s air strikes against anti-Assad regime rebels may have united Syrian rebel factions in a way the hesitant Obama administration never could. A group of 41 Syrian rebel factions, in a joint statement, condemned Moscow’s attacks on rebel targets and vowed to take the fight to the Russian “occupiers.” Backed by Russian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi said regional security is in its “most vulnerable state” and warned that some fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are “sliding into failure.” In an interview with The Associated Press after his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Sisi said Egypt is engaged in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian security forces killed a top leader of the affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) during a shootout in North Sinai on Aug. 1. An Egyptian army spokesman said Selim Suleiman al-Haram, identified as a leader of the terrorist group Sinai Province, was asked to turn himself in by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egypt’s chief prosecutor, who had handed down death sentences to hundreds of supporters of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, was killed in a car bomb attack in Cairo on June 29. Officials said Hisham Barakat, 64, died of injuries sustained when a parked car was remotely detonated as the prosecutor’s motorcade […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Greater Boston area has become a safe haven for Islamic terrorists. Muslim extremism has taken root in fertile soil, spreading through an elaborate network of radicalized mosques and Islamic cultural centers. The result is a clear and present danger to public safety. The state’s elites, however, have deliberately turned a blind […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia and Hamas have been considering a reconciliation. Arab diplomatic sources said the Saudi leadership has renewed contact with the Hamas leadership, Middle East Newsline reported. They said King Salman, who ascended to the throne on Jan. 23, was encouraging a reconciliation with the Palestinian Islamic movement. “Salman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian military has captured a large cache of anti-aircraft weapons delivered by convoys from Sudan and Libya. On Aug. 5, five policemen and four suspected insurgents were killed in a battle on the Matrouh highway, the usual convoy route along the Mediterranean coast. The sources said the insurgents attacked […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has concluded that a foreign intelligence agency could have helped a major Al Qaida-aligned attack on the military near the Libyan border. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said a foreign intelligence agency was believed responsible for the financing of an attack that killed 22 soldiers near the Libyan border on […]