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Back in 2011, following the ouster of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, relations between Egypt and Israel were at a low point.

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President Obama appears reticent to help Israel stamp out Hamas once and for all because his administration is being run by a 'Muslim Sisterhood,' nationally syndicated talk-host Michael Savage told his listeners."

It is failed in the sense that it does not have a cohesive central government whose writ runs to every part of the country.

Tajikistan's leading opposition force, the Islamic Rebirth Party , has complained of a concerted government campaign designed to discredit and weaken it ahead of a parliamentary election due next year.

A supporter of then Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, on a camel, fights with anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo in February 2011.

Hamas, which poses a strategic threat to Egypt, is attacking Israel, and the United States cannot or will not understand that simple fact.

John Kerry, the beleaguered U.S. Secretary of State, arrived in Cairo Monday to try and broker another cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian militant group which controls the Gaza Strip.

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she predicted the chaos that would ultimately follow the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

A new jihadi media outlet called Al-Fawaris released a video calling on Gazans to endure the military operation, saying that victory looms and that Muslims all over the world support them.

Over 40 Egyptian prisoners sleep side by side in a detention facility in Cairo in this undated photo taken by a cellphone.

The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who assumed office in June, has entered negotiations with Christian leaders to draft regulations to make it easier to construct churches, the Coptic Catholic bishop of Minya told the Fides news agency.

The Hamas-Israel war is a test of Israel's power-projection and posture of deterrence, which directly impacts the national security of Jordan and other pro-US Arab countries.

The Centre for Policy Studies' CapX, a news service "for popular capitalism," has a piece up by Guy Sorman making the case that as a religion, Islam is a far more "pro-business faith" than Christianity , and that only popular capitalism can save the Arab world.

France has secured its first major military contract in Egypt in about 20 years with a 1 billion euros deal to sell four naval frigates, a French diplomatic source said on Saturday.

Egyptian men sentenced to life in prison for sexual assaults on women during a number of public rallies in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, hide their faces their trial at a court in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 16, 2014.

It is a relief to Israel, moderate Sunni countries and ultimately to the United States that Egypt is no longer in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.

An Egyptian court sentenced five men to life imprisonment on Wednesday for sexually harassing and attacking women during celebrations in June after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election.

Syrian President Bashar Assad was sworn in Wednesday for a third seven-year term, amid a brutal civil war that has split his country.