A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood occupies Egypt’s presidential palace, leaving many of the country’s Coptic Christians deeply anxious about their future.

BERLIN –– Germany's intelligence service fears that members of a radical Salafi group, banned in the country since June, could establish a new, dangerous German Salafi colony in Egypt, the German daily Die Welt cited security experts as saying.

ON THE ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER - The Egyptian military operation in northeastern Sinai, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Ikhwanonline, the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood, released a press statement Wednesday regarding Sunday's Sinai attack, calling for a reassessment of the Camp David treaty.

As poverty and insecurity escalate, the plight of Christians can only deteriorate.

Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, has appointed his first cabinet, and guess what? It is crammed with officials from the old regime.

Recently, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aid Huma Abedin, as well as fellow Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the US Congress, of having ties with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and attempting to “infiltrate” the White House to push the Islamic group’s agenda

After decades of neglect and with the collapse of government authority in the past 18 months, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has become fertile ground for Islamic extremists.

Muslim and Coptic Christian leaders in the U.S. are calling on the Egyptian government to exclude any mentions of Islamic law or language that discriminates against minorities in its draft constitution.

"Down with the rule of the Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood" and "The Brotherhood are agents and betrayers"

Against the backdrop of general political turmoil, what started out as a mundane customer service blunder has escalated into a full-blown conflict between Egypt’s Muslims and its Christian minority.

Security forces, together with the family elders of the village of Dahshur, helped the 16 Coptic families who were forced to leave the village return to their homes.

Political activists and Muslim Brotherhood youth called for protesters to protect the presidential palace

After five days of sectarian violence, 12 armored vehicles besiege a street no wider than 300 meters and no longer than 600 meters. Mar Girgis Church — the only church in the village of Dahshur, Giza — stands on that street.

Security has been tightened around the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo after a shooting that took place there on Sunday evening, said Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal Eddin.

Egypt has a chronic sectarian problem, and the main obstacle to addressing it is official and popular denial that it has one.

Dahshour, a once quiet village in Giza, is now a busy, tense and angry place bustling with police and security personnel. Central Security and National Security forces are deployed at the entrances to the village and in front of the church there, while also guarding the already trashed and looted houses of Copts who fled their homes Wednesday when a fight that erupted between a Christian and a Muslim led to wider clashes and the death of one Muslim and the injury of a dozen people.

On Sunday evening, dozens of Copts protested in front of the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis, Cairo, against the forced migration of Christians in Dahshur, Giza.

Security services in Giza arrested nine persons accused of burning and stealing from Coptic residents’ homes in Dahshur, in the aftermath of a fight between a Muslim man and Coptic man which led to killing of one person, the burning of houses and the displacement of some Coptic families.

Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt said that recognizing the Libyan Brotherhood has been an occasion long awaited by the group, especially since they were separated by former Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi.

The World Bank has agreed to give Egypt a loan of US$200 million to fund the upgrade of sanitation and sewage infrastructure in four governorates in the Nile Delta and Upper Egypt, an official said on Wednesday.