Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump is considering placing the Muslim Brotherhood on a US blacklist of “foreign terrorist organizations,” the White House said Tuesday. The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement with support across the Middle East, was designated a terrorist organization in Egypt following the military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. “The president [...]
Sources in the Gaza Strip and in Egypt on Tuesday said that the launch of a long-range rocket at the Sharon area was orchestrated by Iran in order to influence the Israeli elections, Israel Hayom, which is openly supportive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reported. The launch was apparently executed “over the head” of the Hamas [...]
A plague of locusts that has been creeping across the Middle East is set to hit Israel just in time for the Passover holiday, commemorating the original pre-Exodus plague in Egypt. The locusts began swarming on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea and Sudan in December. A desert variety of the insect is always present in [...]
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that an infestation of desert locusts in Sudan and Eritrea is rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea towards Egypt and Saudi Arabia. According to an agency press release, heavy rains triggered two generations of breeding since October, leading to a substantial increase in the [...]
A recent surge in incendiary terror and border violence is Hamas’ way of pressuring Israel to renew talks regarding a wide-scale agreement mediated by the Egyptians. The terror group believes Israel will in turn pressure the PA, that pays Hamas’ salaries and bills, to agree to internal reconciliation. However, this can force IDF to launch a [...]
Hamas and Israel have reached an agreement not to go to war with a tentative promise from Hamas to curtail airborne incendiaries launched into Israel, western diplomatic sources told London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. Hamas reportedly informed a mediator that it was working hard against airborne incendiaries launched into Israel and that they had received a promise from [...]
Hamas reached a dead-end after Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing. But the organization launched 200 rockets and bombs to impress Iran. An organization that wants a ceasefire, as Israel claims, does not do that. Nor does it send incendiary kites and balloons into Israeli communities. Last Tuesday, as a punitive measure against incendiary balloons [...]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an invitation by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner to participate in a peace summit let by moderate Arab states, the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported this weekend. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly agreed to participate in the summit that, according to the report, [...]
In May 1996, an Egyptian man was walking his donkey down a dusty road, near an oasis about 230 miles southwest of Cairo, when the donkey's leg dropped into a hole. After helping his donkey, the man stooped down and looked in. To his surprise, he saw a stack of mummies - all covered in gold! [...]
Saudi Arabia, with the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the United States this week, opens a new front in its war with Iran. The visit is a collection of firsts. It is the first trip by Prince Mohammed bin Salman — known universally as "MBS" — to the U.S. since becoming [...]
