Tag Archives: Egypt

Security forces claimed to have arrested the “mastermind” who sparked violent attacks by Muslims against Christians at a church in Cairo. The government extended former President Mubarak’s detention.

Police arrested 23 people suspected of being involved in the Sunday massacre at a Coptic church in Cairo, bringing the total to more than 200 detained. Twelve people were killed after radical Muslims attacked the church.

Twelve people were killed after more than 500 Salafists gathered outside a Christian church in a Cairo suburb to demand that a woman rumored to have converted to Islam be released. The prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting.

Khaled el-Islambouli, the nephew of Anwar Sadat’s assassin, returned to Egypt after years of exile in Iran. Egypt’s ruling military council has lifted the entry ban against him and nearly 2,000 others, many of them Islamists who went to Afghanistan in the 1980s. Khaled’s father, Mohammed el-Islambouli, who is wanted for attacks in Egypt in […]

Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Elaraby said that “[w]hen it comes to the declared death of bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence.” Reaction by Islamist groups has been muted: both the Muslim Brotherhood and al Islamiyah said they are waiting further confirmation of the death. Security has been heightened near resorts, Western embassies, […]

“Masked gunmen” bombed the El Sabil natural gas export terminal on the Sinai Peninsula. The bombing has shut down the natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan. No group has claimed the attack.