The Egyptian army today seized an Islamist-held town in central Egypt, deploying helicopter-backed military and police forces to dislodge loyalists of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. Supporters of the Islamist official had rampaged through the town of Dalga – looting and torching Christian buildings – after Morsi was removed from...

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The Egyptian military’s ongoing campaign to uproot terrorist infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula is more and more focusing explicitly on securing the territory’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The army is clearing buildings – many of which are used as cover for smuggling tunnels that Cairo blames for facilitating...

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Palestinian sources are reporting that two Egyptian tanks crossed the border that separates the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The tanks reportedly stopped short of Palestinian territory but – if confirmed – the reports would be read as a signal that an ongoing Egyptian campaign to root out jihadist...

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Earlier this week Hamas’s external leadership ordered its political echelon to stop antagonizing the Egyptian army. The Iran-backed terror group is an off-shoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and has been in a tailspin since the Brotherhood-linked government of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi lost power. Hamas figures had begun...

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A grenade attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Monday left one soldier dead and two others injured, as insurgents sought to push back against an ongoing, widespread campaign by the army to uproot jihadist infrastructure in the increasingly anarchic territory. Scores of security officials have been killed in recent clashes across Egypt, with...

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Hamas has lost international backers and seen its domestic popularity slide. It is facing the prospect of economic suffocation, as the Egyptians move to shut down the lucrative smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsua down by Egypt. Its rival Palestinian Fatah faction has taken to...

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Egypt has expanded an ongoing anti-terrorism campaign in the Sinai Peninsula targeting jihadist networks that have in recent months deepened and consolidated efforts to foment instability and violence in the territory and beyond: The Egyptian army is continuing its crackdown on terror in northern Sinai. The Maan news agency reported that military forces moved...

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Egypt’s army-backed government has deepened its efforts to suppress the country’s Muslim Brotherhood, after weeks of violent clashes between security forces and Brotherhood supporters of the country’s former president Mohammed Morsi left over 1,000 people dead. The government has announced that it is moving to formally dissolve the group as...

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News leaked late today that President Barack Obama’s national security aides are urging the administration to suspend “hundreds of millions” of dollars of assistance to Egypt. The move would come months after the Egyptian military responded to a week of mass anti-government protests, during which demonstrators called for the resignation...

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An Egyptian air force raid near the border with Israel has left at least 15 Islamists dead. The raid was one of several moves – military and otherwise – that the country’s military is making to root out jihadist infrastructure in the restive Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security forces have also...

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