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President al-Sisi defended the creation of a wide buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt. In recent weeks, Egypt is carrying out digging work in the area that Palestinians believe is intended to flood the last remaining tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai. Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas accused Egypt of...
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Excerpts: "A misspelling of her name has kept Salwa Mehrez locked up until today. Mehrez, who studied engineering, was arrested in June 2014 among others who were protesting against the protest law. She was tried and convicted for violating the same draconian law she was protesting against."
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Excerpts: "WASHINGTON — Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not...
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Revolutionary grafitti is gradually being removed by local authorities.
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The author writes about Russian military involvement in Syria and discusses different countries in the region, including Egypt. He claims Islamic radicals in Egypt are "still calling for a religious dictatorship along with violence against Israel and non-Moslems in particular." He then claims "...
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President al-Sisi said that a worsening terrorist threat has led to "ferocious war" in his country and some countries "sliding into a vicious cycle of failure."
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Egyptian security forces on Friday killed nine militants who took part in a bomb attack, that had been claimed by the Islamic State Group, at the Italian consulate in Cairo in July, the Interior Ministry said. The attack in July resulted in the death of one person.
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Al-Sisi pardoned 100 young activists and journalist one day before he was set to travel to New York to attend to the UN General Assembly. The decree, officially named No. 386/2015, was quickly branded as an Eid pardon.
Most of the activists released were defendants in the following infamous cases:...
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The creation of a buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza required the demolition of more than 3,200 buildings [HRW report] between July 2013 and August 2015, resulting in the displacement and eviction of "thousands of families." For Egyptian authorities this was needed to maintain security in the area...
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Wednesday’s pardon of 100 prisoners by Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is drawing mixed reactions from around the world, even as it focuses renewed attention on the controversial anti-terrorism laws under which some of the released prisoners had been held. The human rights group Amnesty...