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...When Putin asserted links between Chechen terrorists and al-Qaeda in the early 2000s, he was exaggerating but not outright lying....
...Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, president since 2014, Egypt has embarked on a massive debt-fuelled infrastructure programme led by the military....
...It cannot give these up” and shift the problem on to Egypt, said Ahmed Kamel al-Beheiry, an analyst at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies....
...It drew strength from militants who believed that existing groups such as al-Qaeda were not hardline enough....
...Among them was Amal al-Shanty, walking with her family, including several children. “We don’t know where we will go....
...Hanna noted that previous Palestinian displacements had become permanent....
...At least at the church they have a roof over their heads,” said Hanna Maher, a former pastor of the Gaza Baptist Church, whose wife, Janet, is Ramy’s sister....
...Michael Wahid Hanna of think-tank Crisis Group, also said Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s military-led regime had thrown its political weight behind Burhan, who was trained in Egypt....
...Michael Wahid Hanna, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, said Egypt “won’t simply agree to safe passage for US and other foreign citizens unless there is also agreement on opening the border for...
...UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Volker Turk, UN high commissioner for human rights, have all urged Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
...Hanna’s abrasive fighter reveals her vulnerability; Habib’s naive teenager grows in confidence and clarity....
...“It’s a hard thing to unwind; it would be in a sense a major ideological reversal,” Hanna says....
...Experts have drawn parallels with Moscow’s support for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria....
...Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has never been one to shy away from making bold promises while vowing to revive the Arab world’s most populous state....
...“Egypt’s policy towards Hamas has been pragmatic,” said Ahmed Kamel al-Beheiri, an analyst at the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, a Cairo think-tank....
...Michael Wahid Hanna, senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New York, said by publishing the story about the younger Mr Sisi, Mada had “gone into very sensitive terrain”....
The vote on a plan to extend the Sisi presidency is an opportunity to voice dissent
...unnecessary” spat with Canada this year over the kingdom’s human rights record, the arrest in 2017 of Saudi royalty and business leaders to compel them to relinquish billions to the state, and forcing Saad al-Hariri...
...Ahmed Kamel al-Beheiry, an analyst focusing on Islamist groups at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said that Soldiers of Islam, an al-Qaeda linked group in the Sinai, had recently...
...But Mr Hanna said it was unlikely these demands would be granted. “Over the weekend the administration went public with the idea that they cannot even guarantee current levels of aid”, he said....
...“The army has got to get back credibility, which it is lacking,” says Elias Hanna, a retired Lebanese army general and military analyst....
...Michael Waheed Hanna of the Century Foundation in New York says that Trump “has questioned the bedrock principle of the liberal international order the US has promoted for decades”....
...The Zabadani deal would benefit both Hizbollah and the anti-Assad rebels, Elias Hanna, a strategic analyst and former Lebanese general, said: “To reach any [such] agreement means that all sides are satisfied...
...African countries want Israeli know-how in defence, cyber security and homeland security at a time when Libya is collapsing and Islamist fighters from Boko Haram to al-Shabaab are on the attack....
...“Everyone knows the General Prosecutor lives there, so part of me expected something like this could happen,” Mr Hanna said....
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