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Men claiming to be from an Islamist militant group speak, in this still image taken from video footage posted on the Internet on January 20, 2014, claiming responsibility for the December 2013 attacks on the Russian city of Volgograd. (Reuters/Handout via Reuters Television)

Opinion: Terrorism in Sochi

by Abdel Monem Said | Feb 19, 2014 | Opinion

The world has been clutching its heart since a Dagestan-based terrorist group declared its intention to target the athletes competing in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The irony here is that one of the reasons the Olympic Games were introduced was to avert...

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The wreckage of a tour bus that was targeted by a suicide bombing on February 16 is seen in the Egyptian south Sinai resort town of Taba on February 18, 2014. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Sinai militant group warns tourists to leave Egypt

by Mahmud El Shafey | Feb 18, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis warned on Tuesday all foreign tourists to leave the country by February, saying it will attack any that remain, according to news agency reports. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the warning...

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Damages are seen inside the Museum of Islamic Art as members of the UNESCO delegation assess the damage to the museum in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, January 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Opinion: Decapitating the Great Sphinx of Giza

by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion

It is hysterically paradoxical that the so-called Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Defenders of Jerusalem) have proudly claimed responsibility for an explosion that destroyed the world’s most significant museum of Islamic art in Egypt. Despite the significance and the...

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An Egyptian policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion at a police headquarters building that killed at least a dozen people, wounded more than 100, and left scores buried under the rubble, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, December 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ashraf)

Egypt airs “terror confession”

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 2, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—Egyptian authorities produced on Thursday what they said was a confession by the son of a top member of the Muslim Brotherhood, trying to bolster accusations that the Islamist group has links to Al-Qaeda-inspired militants who have claimed responsibility for...

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Egyptian soldiers stand next to the destroyed headquarters of the military intelligence for the eastern El-Sharqiya region in the town of Anshas, East of Cairo, following an explosion which injured four people, on December 29, 2013. The blast comes after Egypt was hit by two attacks in less than a week. On December 24, a suicide car bomber killed 15 people at a police building in Mansoura, north of Cairo. (AFP Photo/Mostafa Darwish)

Egypt: Government braces for more attacks

by Abdul Sattar Hattita and Waleed Abdul Rahman | Dec 29, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Four Egyptian soldiers were injured in an attack on the El-Sharqiya Governorate’s Military Intelligence Headquarters in the city of Anshas, north of Cairo, on Sunday, in what represents the second bomb attack targeting Egyptian security forces...