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Egypt Pardons 100, Including Al Jazeera Journalists, Activists Sanaa Seif and Yara Sallam

      The pardon also included Shura Council protesters Hany al-Gamal and Peter Youssef, and Alexandrian activist Omar Hazek, who was sentenced alongside Mahienour El-Massry, Youssef...

Saudi Arabia Urged to Cancel Death Penalty for Young Shi’ite

  Ali al-Nimr was given the death penalty in May after taking part in demonstrations three years ago for democracy and equal rights in Saudi...

85 Dead in Boko Haram’s Deadliest Attacks in Months

    Police in the Borno state capital said at least 54 people died in Sunday’s coordinated strikes, with 90 injured, but residents caught up in...

How ISIS Got Its Flag

  On an August morning in 2014, someone noticed a black flag hanging outside a rundown duplex in suburban New Jersey. He could not make...

Sisi Invites US Congress Delegation to Observe Parliamentary Polls

  Sisi extended the invitation to the congressmen so they could “make sure of its fairness and transparency”, according to a presidential statement.   Egypt has...

New Culture Minister’s Past as Saudi Arabia Critic ‘Worrisome’

  Many Saudi journalists and activists were rattled by the appointment of Nemnem as part of Sherif Ismail's new government, which was sworn in on...

Copts in Amriya Village Under Attack from ‘Arabs’

    The ‘Arabs,’ a term commonly used in Egypt to denote desert dwellers, pelted the Coptic villagers, their homes, shops, and church with stones, rocks,...

Syrian Catholic Patriarch: The West is an “Accomplice” in the Violence Wrought By ISIS

  Calling the war in Syria, and its resultant refugee crisis “a tsunami that has hit the country” a grieved and frustrated-sounding Archbishop Ignatius Joseph...

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