Jordan condemns Sinai attack, King Abdullah condoles President Mursi

  AMMAN — Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday offered his deepest sympathies to Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi over the loss of lives in the attack that targeted a number of Egyptian soldiers on the border area in Sinai on Sunday. In a cable sent to Mursi, King Abdullah strongly condemned the attack, which he described […]

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Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal sends condolences to Egypt’s Mursi

      GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas chief-in-exile Khaled Meshaal offered his condolences to Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi on Monday after an attack which killed 16 police officers in the Sinai peninsula. Meshaal phoned Mursi to condemn the attack and stressed that Hamas is concerned about the security of Egypt, a statement said. Also […]

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Hamas on full alert after Sinai attack

  (AFP)  —  Hamas said on Monday that its security forces in the Gaza Strip are on the alert after Egypt’s army vowed to avenge the killing of 16 guards by gunmen near the Israeli border. Egypt’s MENA news agency has said the gunmen were “jihadists” who “infiltrated from Gaza through tunnels” into the adjacent Sinai but Hamas has dismissed the […]

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Egypt military vows to hunt down Sinai attackers

  EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s military vowed on Monday to hunt down those behind the killing of its 16 soldiers at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel. It called the attackers “enemies of the nation” and suggested they were Egyptian Sinai-based militants who received Palestinian support from the Gaza Strip. The violence — which saw the […]

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