Conflicting reports emerged from Egypt this weekend about the potential appointment of opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister, while allies of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi committed to indefinite mass action to restore Morsi to the presidency. The combination has many protracted confusion: Egypt remains in a state...

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Egyptian violence that spiked last Friday during rallies held by supporters of Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi – the events were part of a “Day of Rejection” called for by Morsi supporters – extended through the weekend and into Monday. Dozens were reportedly killed over the weekend, as rival protests...

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Tunisian secularists and Islamists are closely watching events unfold in Egypt, with tensions grounded in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring – which saw the subsequent political empowerment of the Islamist Ennahda movement – threatening to escalate into protests. Pressure mounted through last week and over the weekend on Tunisia’s Islamist-led...

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Supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi were reportedly shot and killed today trying to break into the military facility where the Islamist official has been placed in “preventative” detention by Egyptian military authorities. The army quickly denied reports that the demonstrators had been shot by Egyptian troops, emphasizing that...

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Islamists launched a series of attacks early Friday against Egyptian security forces stationed in the Sinai Peninsula. Though there have been no claims of responsibility, the timing and nature of the attacks has deepening fears that supporters of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi would respond to his removal from power...

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Egyptians ranging from young protesters physically in Tahrir Square to elements of Egypt’s upper society have seen assertions that the army’s moves against former president Mohamed Morsi – taken after what were likely the largest national protests in human history – constituted a coup. Reuters reports on broad disagreement with...

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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has refused to work with what it called the “usurper government” installed after the army on Wednesday ousted Egypt’s Brotherhood-linked government. Instead it has called its followers into the streets: The National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy “calls on the Egyptian people to take to the...

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A day after the Egyptian army ousted Mohamed Morsi from the presidency and subsequently placed him under house arrest, chief justice Adly Mansour was sworn in as Egypt’s interim president. Little is known about Mansour, who served just days as chief justice between his predecessor’s resignation and his own appointment...

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Hamas is struggling to set a line – and remain silent in the meantime – as the crisis in Egypt plays out. The Iran-backed terror group is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which until yesterday was in control of the Egyptian government, and the links have created tension between...

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The Egyptian army has reportedly relieved Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi of his authority, informing the Muslim Brotherhood-linked official at 7pm Egyptian time that he was no longer president. At a press conference called shortly afterward, Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi outlined a roadmap that that involves provisionally suspending the Egyptian constitution,...

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