The recent kidnappings of seven Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula is calling attention to increasing lawlessness in the territory. The weakening of the Egyptian government following the 2011 Arab Spring revolution has allowed an influx of terrorists, including Al Qaeda, to establish bases in the Peninsula. The Sinai...

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The Egyptian army has deployed military and armored vehicles to the Sinai Peninsula in response to the kidnapping of seven Egyptian soldiers. The captives were shown in a video released earlier this week begging Morsi to save them. The incident has deepened tensions between Egyptian security forces and Hamas. The...

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Seven Egyptian security personnel were kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula Thursday after their taxis were ambushed outside the northern Sinai city of el-Arish. Yesterday’s incident is just the latest in a series of kidnappings and attacks in the increasingly anarchic territory. The abduction in the Sinai is the latest incident to highlight...

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Leading Egyptian economists told The Guardian that Egypt is facing its worst economic crisis in eight decades. One of the country’s top economists, Galal Amin, bluntly told the paper that the economic crisis was the worst since the global Great Depression. In terms of its devastating effect on Egypt’s poorest, the...

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is at the center of tit-for-tat petitions seeking to highlight criticism and support for his Muslim Brotherhood-linked administration. A petition circulated by opponents has reportedly garnered over two million signatures. It comes amid polls showing that support for Morsi had all but cratered in March and then continued...

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The prime minister of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government, Hesham Kandil, declared this week that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be welcome to visit the Gaza Strip through the border crossing that Egypt controls into the territory. “Our doors are going to be wide open for him of course,” Kandil told...

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A series of anti-Hamas leaks from Egyptian security forces — in which the Iran-backed terror group is blamed for fomenting violence inside Egypt — may be gaining traction in the Egyptian public sphere. The charges are part of a media war between Hamas and the Egyptian army. The army blames...

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Vigilantism is on the rise throughout Egypt as the economy contracts, political legitimacy crumbles, and security deteriorates. The quotes assembled by Bloomberg for their story on the dynamic are… stark “Fear is big business nowadays,” Hussein said. “People buy the guns because they’re afraid. People buy the guns because they...

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In a move that is bound to reinforce concerns over creeping Islamism in Egypt, the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government had announced that it will be issuing sharia-compliant bonds in an attempt to stabilize Egypt’s teetering economy: Egypt’s upper house of parliament, which has assumed temporary legislative powers, approved the law...

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The Egyptian army has launched another campaign to destroy the roughly thousand of smuggling tunnels that link the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Authorities are claiming limited but significant success: The head of engineering for the Egyptian Armed Forces, Major General Tahir Abdullah, announced today that authorities...

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