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By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin- Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 28 July. Official and media circles are increasingly supportive of the idea that [...]

By Mohammed Saad – Ahram Online – El-Nabawy sacked the Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Culture, Mohammed Afifi, and the head of the National Center for Translation, Anwar [...]

Extremists threaten regional security and these weapon systems provide a new tool to help Egypt fight terrorism.” The statement called the delivery “the latest concrete step taken by the U.S. [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – According to sources in Libya, there are unconfirmed reports, including from the Libyan Herald,  that on July 23rd, the Islamic State executed another Egyptian [...]

By Frida Ghitis- World Politics Review – Last Friday, the exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, traveled to Saudi Arabia from his home in Qatar, ending several years of deep chill in the [...]

By World Tribune – Christians are facing relentless persecution on several fronts, including the ongoing civil war in Syria, the atrocities of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), [...]

By Reuters – The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Cairo supported combating what it called terrorist groups in Syria.  But this effort must happen “within the context of [...]

By Josh Rogin – Bloomberg Opinion – This confusion is a microcosm of the disorganized U.S. approach to the Islamic State threat since last summer. Each incremental escalation into [...]

By John Burger – Aleteia – Forced conversion and marriage is common but receives little attention from local police or civil authorities, said MahnazRehman, director of the [...]

By US Department of State – Tier 1 countries are those whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards. Governments of Tier 2 [...]