A referendum asking Egyptians to approve the country’s new constitution has passed overwhelmingly, with Reuters reporting late on Wednesday that official figures had roughly ninety percent of voters pulling the lever in favor. “The approval of the constitution is perhaps more than 95 percent,” Major General Abdel Fattah Othman, director of public...

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Reuters yesterday conveyed statements from “senior Egyptian security officials” declaring that the country’s military – having largely suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood within Egypt’s borders – will now shift to eroding the Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot Hamas. “Gaza is next,” said one senior security official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the...

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The Times of Israel reported Tuesday that Hamas is being forced to reposition itself in relation to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – of which it is an off-shoot – in the wake of Cairo’s recent decision to brand the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, with the shift likely to deepen an emerging consensus that the...

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Egyptian authorities are intensifying their most recent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood – Friday morning’s Reuters headline tersely noted “Egypt arrests more Brotherhood supporters, more protests anticipated” – days after the country’s army-backed interim government designated the Islamist group as a terrorist organization. At least 32 figures linked to the Brotherhood have...

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Egypt’s army-backed interim government yesterday designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, a day after a massive bomb destroyed an Egyptian police station and killed at least 15 people. The Washington Post reports: The announcement was a stunning blow to the decades-old Islamist organization, which survived for years in the shadows and...

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Suspected jihadists detonated a massive bomb early Tuesday morning outside a police headquarters in Egypt’s increasingly restive Nile Delta region, collapsing the five-story building, killing at least 11 people, and deepening concerns that Islamist fighters are mobilizing to disrupt a January 14th constitutional referendum designed to transition the country to a democratically...

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Egyptian officials announced today that the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former President Mohammed Morsi will stand trial on terrorism-related charges, declaring that he and 35 other Brotherhood figures will face charges for among other things conspiring with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to sow instability within and beyond...

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The New York Times reported late on Thursday that a bomb had exploded near Egypt’s Suez Canal, with one person being killed and dozens being wounded. Egypt has been hit with a string of car bombs and suicide attacks since July 3, when the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The military has pursued...

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Egypt may be preparing to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, amid escalating efforts by the Islamist group and its supporters to derail passage of a new constitution aimed at facilitating a political transition from the current interim army-backed government to an elected one. The Brotherhood rejected the new constitution, which...

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The Associated Press reported this weekend that Hamas had cancelled the terror group’s previously scheduled 26th anniversary rally, with the terror group citing what the outlet described as ‘deep economic woes’ in the Gaza Strip territory that it rules: The decision illustrated just how hard the Gaza economy has been hit since...

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