US reaches out to Islamist parties

Egypt: The Victorious Islamists

Egypt – Christian tycoon faces wave of Muslim anger over bearded Mickey Mouse photo

Security forces wounded more than 1,000 protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo. The protesters demand the prosecution of security officials who killed demonstrators earlier this year.

A military court will re-try Mohammad al Zawahri for his involvement in terror attacks in Egypt in the 1990s. Mohammed is the brother of Ayman al Zawahiri, the new leader of al Qaeda who also leads the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Former comrade-in-arms warns that al-Qaeda’s new leader bears grudge against US, Egypt

Egypt – Political tensions grow as former ambassador to US is appointed foreign minister

The Egyptian doctor who globalized his caliphate crusade

Secret US effort aims to help dissidents – report

Egyptian intelligence detained an Israeli man for “spying on Egypt with the aim of harming its economic and political interests.” The Israeli was identified as Ilan Chaim Grabel and is said to work for Mossad.

As Islamists flex muscle, Egypt’s Christians despair

Egypt – Interior minister blames security gap on officers’ fear of facing prosecution

Egypt’s economy slows to a crawl; revolt is tested

Tunisia postpones election, possibly aiding new parties

The US is pressuring Egypt’s security services to re-arrest members of terrorist groups who escaped or were released from prisons during the uprisings this spring. Egypt and Hamas agreed to allow 550 people to cross into Gaza a day.

The government has recognized the Muslim Brotherhood as a legal political party that is able to participate in upcoming parliamentary elections. The Muslim Brotherhood’s party is being called the Freedom and Justice Party.

Dispute grows as Egyptian gas is still not flowing to Israel

The new Egypt

Egypt’s Christians fear violence as changes embolden Islamists

Saudi Arabia scrambles to limit region’s upheaval

Egypt to open border with Gaza, in the face of Israeli objections

The hot-money cowboys of Baghdad

New alleged al Qaeda tape slams NATO actions

Promise of Arab uprisings is threatened by divisions

For US, matching moral and financial support for revolts proves difficult

Muslim-Christian clashes erupt at Egyptian church

‘In Egypt we need strong leadership. At the moment that’s the generals’

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood poised to prosper in post-Mubarak new era

Jaish al Islam, or Army of Islam, “subscribes to a Salafist ideology of global jihad together with the traditional model of armed Palestinian resistance.”
