The acting leader of Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested on Friday after seven years of speculations about his whereabouts, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced. According to a ministry statement cited by a number of local media, Mahmoud Ezzat was arrested from a residential flat in ...
Israeli tanks and warplanes bombed Hamas positions in Gaza Friday and the Palestinian Resistance movement retaliated with rockets as a three-week-old flare-up showed no let-up despite international mediation efforts. Warning sirens sounded before dawn in Israeli communities near the border as the pre-dawn air strikes and shelling prompted Hamas to ...