Over the past month, the world's media has been awash with gruesome images depicting Muslim Islamist insurgent barbarism whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya, Palestine or Syria....
Islamists seized most seats in the two-stage vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, the electoral commission said on Saturday. A commission official said the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) secured 105 seats, the Salafist Al-Nur party took 45, the liberal Wafd won 14,...
Here comes Sharia law! Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups....
Former US president Jimmy Carter gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to Egypt's parliamentary elections, saying the people's will was "expressed accurately." "We have been very pleased," Carter told reporters during a tour of a polling station at the Rod al-Farag girls' secondary school in a working class district...
Hundreds of Christians have begun fleeing northern Nigeria after dozens were killed in a series of attacks by Islamist militants who issued an ultimatum to Christians to leave the mainly Muslim region or be killed, witnesses said on Saturday. ...
Algeria's Islamists, in the political wilderness since their last attempt to win power dissolved into civil war, are now trying again, galvanized by the success of their brethren elsewhere in north Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring....
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's best organised movement, said on its website it would hold the rally after the government went ahead with its plan to draft overarching constitutional principles. The principles, which would bind a panel appointed by parliament that Islamists hope to dominate, were demanded by liberal and...
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Friday for a day that had been billed as one of unified protest against the interim military government. But the turnout was lopsided, dominated by members of religious movements, ranging from the most conservative, the Salafists, to the relatively...
CAIRO — A natural gas pipeline that runs through Egypt's North Sinai exploded Saturday, disrupting flows to Israel and Jordan. The blast came after Islamists called on militants to exploit the unrest that has rocked the government and there were reports of attacks by saboteurs, but also claims it...
Uprisings are taking place in several nations at once, and it could be the result of a very calculated move to bring a wave of extremist Islamic rule to Arab nations in the Middle East and Africa....
