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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday in Amman in order to coordinate positions ahead of Abbas’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House this week.

President Donald Trump has secured the release of an American citizen held in an Egyptian jail for three years, her Egyptian husband, and four fellow charity workers jailed with her.

The lawyer of Egyptian-American charity worker Aya Hijazi says she has been released from prison after nearly three years of detention.

The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint near the famed Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai late Tuesday which authorities said killed one policeman and wounded four.

The main Christian diocese in Egypt has announced that it will not hold Easter celebrations this year, in mourning for the 46 Coptic Christians killed in the Palm Sunday massacre brought about by twin jihadist bombings.

Egyptian Christians are complaining about insufficient security after the horrific Palm Sunday bombing attacks, despite President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s promises to protect them.

Contents: Egypt in 3-month state of emergency after Coptic church bombings; US aircraft carrier strike force heads for Korean peninsula; South Korean anxiety over North Korea and anger at China grow over THAAD deployment

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves coming under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria, analysts say.

CAIRO, Egypt — President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency in Egypt following twin church bombings that killed dozens of people in two cities on Sunday.

Phillip Haney, former Department of Homeland Security official and author of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad” spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday about how the Trump administration should deal with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday, Arab media is reporting that US President Donald Trump is looking to host a Mideast peace summit as early as this summer.

Egyptian author and political analyst Cynthia Farahat, an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum and founder of the Liberal Egyptian party, joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s visit to the White House.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi described terrorism as a “satanic ideology” during his meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

President Donald Trump praised Egyptian president President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announcing support for his administration.

WASHINGTON – President Trump will look to “reboot” the U.S.-Egyptian relationship when he welcomes Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Monday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II will reportedly present US President Donald Trump with a framework to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal during their visits to the White House this week.

TEL AVIV – President Abdel Fatah Sisi’s visit to the United States later this month will be an opportunity to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood’s standing in Washington, former Egyptian ambassador to the US has said.

President Donald Trump will seek to rebuild the US relationship with Egypt at a Monday meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi focused on security issues and military aid, a senior White House official said on Friday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi left Cairo for Washington on Saturday where both sides will seek a renewed relationship after tensions over Sisi’s crackdown on opponents.

The leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority met to coordinate positions on the peace process ahead of separate meetings with US President Donald Trump next month, Ramallah said Thursday.

On Thursday, the Times of Israel reported that the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority would separately meet with President Donald Trump at the White House in April.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday discussed US-Egypt relations, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and his upcoming trip to the White House with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder.

TEL AVIV – Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi’s meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas failed to yield a breakthrough in mending the sour relations between the two, a senior Egyptian Foreign Ministry official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Egypt’s First Lady Entissar El-sisi has come under fire for wearing ostentatious jewelry on Mother’s Day amid her husband’s efforts to encourage charity to the poor among the citizens.

The uncertain legal status of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appears decisively resolved as he reportedly left a Cairo military hospital and returned home as a free man on Friday morning.

Egypt’s state-owned paper Al-Ahram has announced that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet with President Donald Trump on April 3. The White House has confirmed that Sisi accepted the invitation Trump extended to him just days after his inauguration.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egypt’s Christian minority has experienced a “sharp escalation” in violent attacks at the hands of Islamic extremists under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s watch, declared the vice-president of an advocacy group for the Egyptian Christian minority during a congressional panel.

On Monday, a Cairo prosecutor ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak, who has been imprisoned since he was deposed in 2011. His lawyer said he expected Mubarak to depart Maadi Military Hospital later this week.

Reuters provides a sobering account of the danger facing Egyptian Christians, beginning with the plight of civil servant Adel Munir, who found himself Number Two on a list of Christians marked for death by the Islamic State.

Christian dignitaries in the Egyptian city of Ismailia have been absorbing a wave of refugees from across the Sinai Peninsula after at least seven Coptic Christians were murdered by militants affiliated with the Islamic State.

Contents: ISIS forces hundreds of Christians to flee Egypt’s North Sinai; ISIS-linked Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in Sinai continues to confound Egypt’s army

ISMAILIA, EGYPT—After Islamic militants barged into his uncle’s house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place and set it on fire, Said Sameh Adel Fawzy knew it was time to leave.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stressing the need to work for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after US President Donald Trump signaled that he could accept a different outcome.

TEL AVIV — Hamas is drafting a new political and ideological charter in the wake of top militant Yehiyeh Sinwar’s recent election as party leader, a member of Egypt’s liaison team to Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi met with Jewish-American leaders in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the Middle East and the political and economic challenges his country faces.