The Muslim Brotherhood sought to contain and indirectly coordinate with the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, currently known as the "Province of Sinai", the core part of the Islamic State terror group through a number of understandings since it took (...)
The birth of Muslim Brotherhood coincided with a state of political momentum during King Farouk's era and the British occupation to Egypt, when the group's founder threw its first seed from Ismailia province before leaving to Cairo. Both the group (...)
The United States of America (U.S.), has admitted it has under-estimated the power of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, (ISIS) and Congress has demanded a revision of U.S. strategy.
The support provided to the Arab fighters by the CIA (...)
With the approach of the fourth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood, "MB" Group, is preparing to launch operations that it wants to claim as a "Third revolution".
After the collapse of the "National Alliance to Support (...)
The Islamic State group (IS) said it will deploy fighters to Yemen to fight against the Houthi rebels' military coup, declaring they wouldn't let Yemen fall in the hands of Shiite Raafidis.
Jihadist Yaacoub Ahmed stated that IS is obligated to (...)
Al Azhar University's Professor of jurisprudence (Fikh), Sheikh Ahmed Crema said Wednesday what The Islamic State group (IS) did to Jordanian pilot Moaz Al Kasasba confirms that that criminal organization does not relate to the Islamic religion. The (...)
Origin and Destiny
Modern extremism in the Sinai began in its Sinai mosques. The first founder of a strongly religious group was named Salah Shehada, who abused religious fervor amongst tribes in the Sinai.
Salah El Din Hussien
At the beginning of (...)
France has declared war on Al Qaeda organizations in North and West Africa, as these were a direct threat to its interests, especially those in countries of the West African coast.
France's last attack was launched to suppress the Anssar Al Din (...)
While the decision to reduce curfew hours reflects a feeling of success on the part of Egyptian authorities, the same decision is regarded by the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy as a sign of victory over perpetrators of the coup who, they (...)
Journalism has come under attack more and more since 3 July in Egypt. Both foreign and national journalists suffer from crackdowns and censorship by security forces, with little reaction from the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate.
As Tamer Abdel Raouf, (...)
Heated discussions flared up late Sunday at the presidency after it expressed its rejection of ideas to break up the Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda protests using force or even peaceful means, sources told Egypt Independent.
Vice President Mohamed (...)
MPs from Jama'a al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party, the Wafd Party, the Karama Party and the Salafi Nour Party submitted a draft law requesting amnesty for all political prisoners since the assassination of Sadat until the resignation of (...)
Some polling stations in the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr al-Sheikh opened four hours late, as supervisors did not show up on time, and phosphoric ink arrived late.
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafi trend used megaphones to (...)
Thirteen movements and parties announced on Tuesday that they will protest on Friday to demand the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) set a date no later than 5 April 2012 to open nominations for the presidential elections. They will also (...)
Salafi leader Mahmoud Amer has said there should be conditions on women running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, namely that they should be veiled, and that they should not talk to men except when utterly necessary.
Three Salafi parties, the (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood group has suspended its cultural activities in order to concentrate on upcoming parliamentary elections.
But the group decided to continue performances of the play "Make Way" at theaters owned by its Freedom and Justice (...)
Islamist parties called on military Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a meeting on Saturday to end the state of emergency, apply the Treachery Law against former National Democratic Party (NDP) members, hand over power to a civilian government before (...)
Jama'a al-Islamiya will field around 150 candidates in the parliamentary elections scheduled for November, the group's media spokesperson, Tarek al-Zomor, said on Saturday.
The final number will be announced when the group concludes its preparations (...)
The High Administrative Court will convene on 10 October to discuss a challenge submitted by Jama'a al-Islamiya, demanding that it be allowed to form its own political party.
The Islamist group is challenging the decision of the Political Parties (...)
The Alexandria Prosecution has ordered the arrest of the police officers accused of torturing and killing Sayed Belal, a Salafi who died in detention after being arrested for investigation into the New Year's Eve bombing of the Two Saints Church in (...)
Tarek al-Zomor, spokesman of the Jama'a al-Islamiya, has said that US embassies in the Middle East would be at risk for attack if the United States used its veto in the vote for a Palestinian state at the United Nations Security Council on (...)
Informed sources claim a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, headed by Deputy General Guide Khairat al-Shater, met with the military council on Monday, hours before the group announced that it would boycott Friday's million-man (...)
Islamist parties continue to make various preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in November.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party announced it would nominate 105 of the same candidates who had (...)
Egypt's Islamist groups are divided over participation in the demontsrations planned for 9 September by a number of political groups to protest the prosecution of civilians before military courts.
While the Salafi Front has said it will not (...)
Relatives of Jama'a al-Islamiya spiritual leader Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving time in a US prison for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings in New York, refused to disperse a sit-in outside the US Embassy in Cairo. The protesters are (...)