Tag: Islamists

The apparent winners of the first round of Egypt’s first free presidential election, one from the Muslim Brotherhood and one Hosni Mubarak’s last premier,...

French police swooped on suspected radical Islamists in pre-dawn raids for the second time in less than a week Wednesday, arresting 10 people, a...

Police on Tuesday accused Islamist militants over the kidnapping of a German aid worker and his Italian colleague, snatched at gunpoint five days ago....

Islamist MPs took centre stage on Monday as Egypt’s parliament met for the first time since a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak, while their...

Radical Islamists pose the biggest threat to Norway even though it was a rightwing extremist who carried out the twin attacks there last July...

Hundreds of people fled their homes Saturday in northeast Nigeria after deadly all-night gun battles between Islamists and security forces, police and residents said....

Egypt's two main Islamist parties claimed on Saturday to have together taken 62.2 percent of the vote in the final stage of a general...

Egypt’s main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament...

Voters poured into polling stations Wednesday in the second round of landmark elections that will shape Egypt’s post-revolution future, with many backing Islamists who...

Egyptians voted Wednesday in the second round of a parliamentary election with Islamist parties seeking to bolster early gains and secure a dominant position...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it won most seats in a first-round parliamentary vote, with early tallies suggesting liberals had backed some of...

Islamist candidates in Egypt looked Monday to extend their crushing victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, as...

The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia's first free election appealed for calm in the town where the "Arab Spring" began, accusing...

Tunisian electoral officials confirmed the Islamist Ennahda party as winner of the North African country’s election, setting it up to form the first Islamist-led...

Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party was preparing to lead a coalition government on Tuesday after its election win sent a message to the region that...

Tunisia’s main Islamist party predicted it would secure 40 percent of the country’s first ever free polls, as the birth place of the Arab...

Investigators probed a Nigerian Islamist sect on Monday over the suicide bombing of UN headquarters here that killed at least 21 people in one...