Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egypt deploys scholars to teach moderate Islam, but skepticism abounds

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be relying but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning in his battle against militant Islam.

Christian captives 'killed by IS'

Video emerges shows beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians who had been kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya

June 1, 2015
June 1, 2015

Egypt deploys scholars to teach moderate Islam, but skepticism abounds

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be relying but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning in his battle against militant Islam.

February 16, 2015
February 16, 2015
Men in orange jumpsuits purported to be Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State (IS) are marched by armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli, in this still image from an undated video made available on social media on February 15, 201

Christian captives 'killed by IS'

Video emerges shows beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians who had been kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya