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More Than 85 Churches Attacked in Post-Morsi Violence: Fieldwork Report

The report, issued by the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms detailed alleged attacks on Christians from 30 June last year, when mass protests...

Pakistani Court Rejects Asia Bibi Appeal, Withholds Death Penalty for ‘Blasphemy’

Asia Bibi has been in jail since 2009 in a blasphemy case, then an additional district and session judge convicted and sentenced her to...

Editor of Egypt’s Biggest Private Newspaper Questioned over (Unpublished) Report

  The editor-in-chief of Egypt's largest private newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm and one of the paper's reporters have been questioned by state security prosecutors over an...

When It Comes to Beheadings, ISIS Has Nothing Over Saudi Arabia

Yet, for all the outrage these executions have engendered the world over, decapitations are routine in Saudi Arabia, America’s closest Arab ally, for crimes...

Four Egyptians Identified as Religious Leadership for ISIL Recruits

Young boys and men line up in front of a “membership office” for ISIL in the Syrian town of Al-Bab.   The analysts said at least...

More Americans Say Ground Troops Needed to Fight ISIS

Approximately 41% of Americans surveyed said the military campaign against ISIS should include “air strikes and combat troops,” compared with the 35% who said...

Egyptian Paper Details Foreign Funding of NGOs, Calls Funders “Dangerous”

The article delineates the “6 most dangerous” international organizations from which this funding originates, including Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International...

Turkey’s Passive-Aggressive Inaction in Kobani Is dangerous

Any second now, it seems as if Syria’s Kurdish border city of Kobani will fall. Amazingly, Kurds have been holding their ground, and western...

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