At least 78 people were killed in a bombing outside of a Pakistani church Sunday, with the attack being only the latest in a cascade of anti-Christian violence that has rocked the Middle East and Africa in recent months. In Egypt, Islamist supporters of the country’s deposed former President Mohammed...

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Egypt’s media is responding to President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly with something between enthusiastic approval and outright euphoria. The overarching perception is that, the occasional caveat aside, the White House has accepted that American interests require ongoing work with the army-backed interim government: Analysts believe the US...

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The war of words between Hamas and Egypt – which occasionally slips into more than words – seems to be escalating despite efforts by Hamas to prevent its leaders and Gaza-based preachers from antagonizing Cario. AFP earlier this week noted that that Hamas had redoubled such efforts: The Hamas rulers...

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A few months after Ankara violently put down a wave of anti-government protests, Turkey now risks entering a downward spiral where political authoritarianism fuels economic instability, and economic instability fuels more political protests that are put down through authoritarian measures. Observers had already worried over the summer that the government...

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The Egyptian government’s decapitation campaign against the country’s Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – which has included measures on the national level and even against the Brotherhood’s messaging apparatus – has drawn the ire of the group’s organizational cousins in Jordan. Brothers in Jordan are not only displeased with Cairo’s actions, but...

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The army-backed Egyptian government has been on something of a tear lately in its efforts to uproot the Muslim Brotherhood’s infrastructure and influence in Egypt. Just the last few days have seen the group’s activities banned and asset freezes against its top leaders extended. Today saw the shuttering of the...

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Last week the Egyptian government extended an asset freeze against the leadership of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood, including against the assets of the group’s Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi. The moves came amid an arrest sweep that Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager described...

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Last month Iranian diplomats who spoke to Al-Monitor floated rumors that Hamas was seeking to reestablish close ties with Tehran, after a period that saw the Palestinian terror group drift toward Sunni extremist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s decline in Egypt had, according to both those diplomats...

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There are credible arguments to be made that Turkish-Egyptian relations have literally never been worse since the two countries took shape as modern states. The two countries had exchanged ambassadors soon after WWII, signed a free trade agreement in 2005, and been declared by Ankara to be part of an...

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The Egyptian army’s ongoing campaign to uproot jihadist infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula has in recent days focused heavily on the territory’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The military has begun demolishing buildings within a kilometer of the border, hoping to locate hidden tunnels which are used to move...

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