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Ajnad Misr Claims Responsibility for Heliopolis Blast; Four Security Personnel Killed in Attacks in Suez, Fayoum, Sinai

  Explosives experts also defused a second device they found while searching the vicinity of the building after the blast. Militant group Ajnad Misr claimed...

Egypt Rejects Qatari Offer to Mediate with Brotherhood

Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been strained since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi. The Egyptian government accuses Qatar of harboring pro-Brotherhood biases, and...

ISIL Maps Said to Outline Designs on Europe, Mideast, N. Africa

  BBC reporter Andrew Hosken’s book “Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State” includes maps showing that, by 2020, ISIL envisions its caliphate stretching as...

Ambulances Ferry ISIS Terrorists Between Turkey and Syria: Turkish Opposition Party

  A delegation of CHP deputies and party members who visited Adyaman found that many locals recruited by ISIL cross into Syria by bribing border...

Islamic State Abducts Dozens of Christians in Syria

    Osama Edward, director of the Christian Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, told The Associated Press that about 60 Christians were initially taken...

Egypt Court Reconsiders Christian’s Blasphemy Conviction

  "Bishoy was accused of blasphemy at a very bad time for Christians here," his lawyer,Magdy Farouk Saeed,told World Watch Monitor. The charges filed against...

Boko Haram Attacks Intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

  On Friday (31 July) a massive bomb exploded in the market in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria – the traditional heartland of Boko Haram violence. At...

What is the Significance of Al-Qaeda’s Presence in Sinai?

  The announcement of the presence in Sinai of Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Murabitun has not come as a surprise to observers and has underscored a number...

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