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Muslim Brotherhood Members Return to Rebel-Held Zones in Syria

Hundreds of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood have returned from exile, hoping to rebuild a movement which was crushed decades ago at home...

Activists Warn Congress of Christian ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in Mideast

Watch Video   Many groups are urging lawmakers to step up to assist those being tortured and discriminated against.   Speakers from around the world gathered in Washington,...

Egypt Cybercrimes Law a Potential Threat to Liberties: Activists

  With Egypt witnessing an escalating wave of violence from militant groups, who have often used cyberspace as a medium for incitement, Information Minister Khaled...

‘You Are a Target’: Muslim Extremists Terrorize Egypt’s Coptic Christians

    Christians in Egypt are facing a new wave of persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists, and human rights groups fear the situation could...

Islamic State Executes 300 Yazidi Hostages in Iraq

    Hundreds of captive Yazidis have been shot and killed by Islamic State jihadis near Mosul, Iraq, according to sources from Yazidi and Iraqi officials,...

‘Egyptian Government Clamps Down on Rights Groups, Seeking their Eradication’

    Legal and judicial tools based on the repressive Associations Law (Law 84/2002) are being deployed to suppress civil society. As a case in point,...

Freed Nigerian Women Tell of Horror of Boko Haram Captivity

    The Nigerian army rescued hundreds of women and children last week from the Islamist fighters in northern Nigeria's Sambisa Forest in a major operation...

U.S. Denies Visa to Nun; Was to Testify Before Congress on Christian Persecution in Iraq

    Unless the US State Department changes its mind, Dominican Sister Diana Momeka, who has worked among the internally displaced persons in the northern Iraqi...

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