An interesting story popped up via the Iranian mouthpiece, Fars, stating in part the following: Israel’s fighter jets have taken part in the Thursday Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen, sources in Sanaa disclosed on Friday. “This is for the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with Arabs,” Secretary General of […]
Houthi, Shia, SunniEgyptian security forces backed by helicopters raided a town on the outskirts of Cairo known to be an Islamist stronghold on Thursday, exchanging fire with suspected militants who killed a senior police officer. The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said Gen. Nabil Farrag, an aide to the security chief of Cairo’s twin city of Giza, was sh…
WASHINGTON — As political unrest continues in post-coup Egypt, two amphibious assault ships have moved to the coast there, the commandant of the Marine Corps said Thursday. The USS Kearsarge and the USS San Antonio “moved up into the Red Sea and parked off of Egypt,” a couple of nights ago, “because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Gen. James Amo…
Egypt’s powerful military issued an ultimatum to the government and its opposition on Monday: resolve the crisis that has pitted hundreds of thousands ofPresident Mohamed Morsi’s opponents against his supporters and brought this country to a political standstill — or the military will announce its own solution. “The armed forces reiterates its call…
Dr. Essam el-Erian, a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, has apparently turned to his Facebook page to put out some confounding commentary about Monday’s tragic bombing at theBoston Marathon.According to an English translation , el-Erian expressed sympathy for the American people, but then purportedly connected the bombings to other incid…
Clashes between protesters and the police in the restive Egyptian city of Port Said that entered their second day Monday have dragged in the military to a dramatic extent into the nation’s turmoil.At times in the violence, frictions have arisen between the police that were battling protesters and army forces that tried to break up the fighting. Troops in…
Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has been meeting without its nominal head, President Mohamed Morsi, to discuss domestic developments amid concerns over Egypt’s ongoing political crisis, military sources told Ahram Online Wednesday.In the president’s absence, sources say, such gatherings do not technically qualify as official SCAF meetin…
Egypt’s army chief warned Tuesday that the state could collapse if the latest political crisis roiling the nation drags on but also defended the right of people to protest.Troops deployed in the two riot-torn Suez Canal cities of Port Saidand Suez stood by and watched Monday night as thousands took to the streets in direct defiance of a night curfew and a…
Egypt’s president declared a state of emergency and curfew in three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by a weekend wave of unrest that left more than 50 dead, using tactics of the ousted regime to get a grip on discontent over his Islamist policies and the slow pace of change.Angry and almost screaming, Mohammed Morsi vowed in a televised address on Sunday…
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy declared a “new era” for the country Saturday, saying the new constitution guarantees equality under the law and puts power in the hands of lawmakers, not the president.He spoke three days after signing the controversial constitution into law. Despite criticism of the document, more than 63% of Egyptian voters approved it…