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Islamists won the country’s main municipalities in elections that they acknowledged as free, fair and democratic.
Jordan has embarked on a campaign to shut down the Islamic opposition Hamas movement, diplomats said. The diplomats said King Abdullah has ordered a crackdown on the activities of Hamas and is seeking to expel its leadership. The move has been urged by the United States, the diplomats said, which...
Algerian prisons began setting free thousands of militants on July 5 under a mass Independence Day pardon issued by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in his drive to end seven years of bloodshed. The prisoner releases were the first tangible fruit of a deal last month between the government and the...
The controversial ties between Muslim Brotherhood "hawks" in Jordan and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the self-rule areas were the hidden reasons behind growing feuds within the Brotherhood ranks, Islamist and independent sources said this week.
Amman Governor Qaftan Majali on Monday reiterated controversial demands that women wearing the full-face veil reveal their faces at polling stations in Amman in upcoming nationwide municipal elections in a bid to wipe out possible fraud. Official figures indicate that 50 per cent of over one...
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month.
Algeria’s new President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has just announced plans to pardon thousands of pro-Islamist prisoners, looks determined to restore peace in order to tackle major social issues. In under three months, Bouteflika has already obtained the "surrender" of the Islamic Salvation Army (...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...
Like the Islamic group called "Al-Taqfir wa Al-Hijra" who committed a series of assassinations against who opposed them in their ideas or opinions, the author says that there is a group of Copts who are also trying to trying to declare as apostate some Christian thinkers because they oppose them...
Following seven years of unremitting bloodshed and tens of thousands of lives lost, Algeria’s bloody civil struggle may finally be drawing to a close as the president and the main Islamist opposition group agree to a peace. Whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Islamic Salvation Front’s (...

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