Sharm el-Sheikh

April 4, 2023 | |

PA Security Services Officer Attacks Israeli Forces

Latest Developments A Palestinian Authority (PA) security services officer wounded three Israeli soldiers on Saturday night after ramming a car into them near the West Bank village of Beit Ummar. Other...

March 22, 2023 | |

Israel Braces for Violence During Ramadan

Latest Developments  Israeli police plan to deploy thousands of additional officers in Jerusalem ahead of Ramadan in anticipation of recurrent violence on the Temple Mount. Police forces will bulk up...

March 20, 2023 | |

Israel and Palestinians Make Peace Commitments in Sharm el-Sheikh

At the invitation of Egypt, the United States, and Jordan, Palestinian and Israeli government officials met in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday to discuss the soaring...

February 26, 2023 | |

Israel, Palestinians Reaffirm Need to Work Together

Latest Developments Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) reaffirmed past peace deals at a Jordanian-hosted meeting on Sunday, and pledged to work together to tamp down West Bank violence. The rare...

November 30, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Americans are climate criminals and must pay

That’s the indictment handed up by COP27

November 9, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Bad COP

The U.N. climate summit threatens our planet

September 16, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Egypt’s President Sisi is moving to thaw relations with Israel, reap economic rewards

For the first time in a decade, an Israeli prime minister is visiting Egypt. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is hosting Naftali Bennett at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, at a time when Cairo has...

June 7, 2018 | Romany Shaker, Boris Zilberman

Russia and Egypt are Growing Closer

As Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi begins his second term, a new chapter in Egyptian-Russian relations is being written. Disappointed by U.S. policy, Cairo has strengthened its ties with...

December 10, 2015 | |

The Twisted Tehran-Moscow Axis

When Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani addressed the participants at the October 15 Valdai Club (the topic was “War and Peace”) he was wearing black, as is traditional among...

November 11, 2015 | |

Tehran-Moscow Axis: Tactical or Strategic?

Co-authored by Flemming Splidsboel Hansen Ali Larijani wore black as a sign of mourning the Ashoura days of Shiite passion, as he addressed the participants at the October 2015...

November 6, 2015 | |

The Sinai Crash is Sisi’s Nightmare

It’s still too early to definitively state the cause of the Russian airliner crash...

July 1, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

Egypt’s Bloody Wednesday

The Sinai Peninsula experienced its bloodiest attack in a decade on Wednesday, as the Islamic State affil...

June 5, 2015 |

Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...

April 22, 2015 | |

When Israel Helped Yemen’s Shiites

Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against t...

March 14, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

Bold Plans at Egypt’s Economic Summit, But Challenges Linger

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has a flair for dramatic gestures. In his nine months in office, the Egyptian president has challenged the state’s...

February 25, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s International Expansion: What Does Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis’s Oath of Allegiance Mean?

The international expansion of the jihadist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has become a ...

January 29, 2014 | David Barnett The Long War Journal |

Ansar Jerusalem Claims SAM Attack as 3 Soldiers Killed in Sinai Bus Ambush

  In a statement released to jihadist forums on Jan. 25, the Sinai-based jihadist group Ansar Jerusalem (Ansar Bayt al M...

January 28, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief

SAMs in Egypt’s Sinai

Just as the rubble was cleared after a series of bombings in Cairo, reports emerged from North Sinai on Satur...

July 19, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Suicide Bomber Targeted Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria

The blast that killed seven people, including five Israelis, on bus at an airport in Burgas yesterday was carried out by a suicide bomber dressed as a Western tourist, the Bulgarian government sa...

June 27, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Abdullah Azzam Brigades Names Leader, Advises Against Attacks in Syria’s Cities

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al Qaeda-linked terror group that operates throughout Middle East, has named its leader for the first time and said it supports the Syrian revolution. The...