Latest in Tag: terrorism Highlight
Latest in Tag: terrorism
Bloody September
September has been a month that has witnessed heinous crimes against humanity that claimed scores of lives in many dispersed parts of the world. From the All Saints church bomb in Peshawar to the roadside attacks in Northeast Nigeria, to the suicide bombings in Baghdad, to the atrocious Westgate Mall siege in Kenya to the …
Al-Tayar Al-Sha’aby launches campaign to document security violations
Movement reiterates support for state’s anti-terrorism measures yet stresses importance of respecting human rights
Egypt undergoing a conflict between past and future: Higazy
Strategic adviser to the interim president, Mostafa Higazy, said that the number of “terrorists in Sinai” increased from 1,000 to 12,000 under Morsi
Manufacturing Fear
There was a taste lost between bitterness, anger and shock last Thursday when the news about the attempt to assassinate the Minister of Interior was out. I don’t know how many of you lived in Egypt in the early 90s, but there was a time that I most clearly remember where such acts of terror …
US congress members speak out on ONTV
Representatives support army, condemn Brotherhood
Crackdown on journalists continues
Ismailia’s military prosecution detains award-winning Sinai journalist Abu Deraa for 15 days.
Assassination attempt on minister strongly condemned
Exchanged accusations amid domestic and international condemnation
Suez Canal on high alert after failed terrorist attack
Ship flying Panama flag targeted
Arab League should send fact-finding mission to Egypt: Arab rights groups
Arab civil society organistations blame “lack of political will” for human rights infringements
Three militants killed in Sinai, 22 arrested
Army’s chief of staff visits Arish
Editor’s letter: Unsustainable return of Mubarak’s state
Hosni Mubarak is out of Tora prison and placed under “house arrest” in a military hospital in Cairo. Some Egyptians take this development to the extreme and pessimistically claim Mubarak is back to power, which is definitely more of a desperate joke than anything else. Simply, both politically and physically it is unfeasible to even …
Twelve years after 9/11, retiring FBI chief still sees threat
Mueller expressed concern about the “shifting landscape in terms of the countries involved in the Arab Spring — Tunisia, Libya, Mali, to a lesser extent Algeria, Syria and, quite obviously in the last two months, Egypt.”
Israel strikes Lebanon after rocket attack
Israeli aircraft “targeted a terror site located between Beirut and Sidon in response to a barrage of four rockets launched at northern Israel yesterday”
Collective punishment and competing collateral
Blood and burned churches. These are the lasting images in Egypt over the past week. Out of context, each are abhorred and condemned by most. However, the unprecedented levels of violence in the country have not only desensitised many Egyptians to such images, but have sparked arguments as observers take parts of the images to …
‘Next generation’ of Qaeda being born in Egypt: analysts
The repression of the Muslim Brotherhood and the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi could see a new generation of radicals joining the movement founded by Osama bin Lade
Foreign minister meets with EU envoy in Cairo
Fahmy discusses situation in Egypt with EU envoy as EU-Egypt relations come under review
NSF condemns ‘terrorists’ attacks
The party condemns attacks in Sinai and refuses foreign intervention in internal affairs
Accusations of ‘terrorism’ follow Jihadist leaders
15-day-detention for Al-Zawahiri and Hamza for further interrogation
Fahmy: Any threat to cut aid to Egypt is unacceptable
Foreign minister announces committee to investigate events since 30 June
Taliban attacks kill 17 civilians in Afghanistan
An insurgent attack on a road construction workers’ camp in Karukh district in the western province of Herat left nine workers dead overnight.
Tamarod statement stirs controversy
The rebellion campaign called on all Egyptians to take to the streets on Friday, to form neighbourhood watches
Resurgent Al-Qaeda far from defeated: analysts
“The pandemonium in Syria, Libya, and Egypt, are like a hothouse for al Qaeda,” says CIA analyst Bruce Riedel
National Salvation Front reaffirms trust in government to fight terrorism
The National Salvation Front stated it “reaffirms its trust in the Egyptian military and its Ministry of Interior against a blood hungry faction”
Raba’a and Nahda a threat to national security: Cabinet
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman denounces “double standards” in treating Rabaa and Tahrir sit-ins
Sinai assailants step up assaults
Militants fire ballistic missile at the North Sinai security directorate
Militants strike Sinai security targets
Unknown assailants attack police forces three times on Saturday, leaving one injured
Ministry of Interior and army coordinating to disperse Rabaa protesters
Ibrahim: operations in Sinai are being prepared and homeland security administrations against extremist activities are essential
Democratic Front Party petition to support armed forces
The party launches a campaign to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and delegates the armed forces to combat terrorism
Sinai responds to Al-Sisi’s call
Two dead and eight injured in the latest attacks in Sinai
Rights groups reject Al-Sisi’s “popular mandate”
The groups rebuffed the “extralegal mandate” to confront terrorism and urged alternative solutions.