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Udi Adam, the commander of the IOF northern command that was mainly involved in the war on Lebanon, has rendered his resignation Wednesday at the backdrop of the disgraceful defeat of his troops at the hands of Hizbullah fighters.

Spokesman of the Israeli army confirmed the report and affirmed that Dan Halutz, the IOF chief of staff, accepted Adam’s resignation.

In an interview ..

The general secretariat of the Syrian National Salvation Front Held its third session in Brussels, which lasted for three days from 13th to 15th of this September, with the Front reviewing decisions taken in the two previous sessions as well as taking a new set of decisions on its envisaged plan on the road to peaceful national change. The Front also discussed the recent regional and internatio..

Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi, the chief Islamic judge in Palestine, on Monday rejected assaults on churches of various sects in Palestine and the Islamic world as contrary to Islamic teachings.

Tamimi charged, in a statement, that such attacks served "enemies of Islam", and stressed that Muslims and Christians live in absolute respect to each other’s creed in all Muslim countries.

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The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) moved 16 Palestinian female prisoners from Talmund jail to Ramle prison and threw four others in solitary confinement after allegedly discovering a tunnel that was being dug by those inmates to escape prison, legal sources revealed.

The lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner’s club said after visiting the Talmund jail a couple of days ago that the prisone..

The State Security Prosecution on Tuesday September 19, 2006, ordered another 15-day extension of detention to 26 Muslim Brotherhood members in what the Prosecution names as the Ras el Bar Camp Case.

The story started when the authorities stormed the homes of those MB members several months ago and detained them after confiscating personal properties such as computers and books. ..

As the presidential and municipal elections in Yemen come to a close, allegations were voiced by the Yemeni Joint Alliance on election irregularities and violations by the Yemeni ruling party.

Mohammed Kahtan, a leader within the Coalition for Reform (Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Yemen) told Ikhwanweb that representatives from the opposition reported a number ..

Chairman of MB Parliamentary Bloc Dr. Mohammed Saad el Katatny said that the Bloc will hold its first internal elctions on Saturday September 23rd at the People’s Assembly premises to choose the Bloc’s General Secretariat which comprises the chairman and nine leading members including the Bloc secretary general and its media spokesman.

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In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Deputy Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Sudan Dr. Alhabr Nour Yousuf Al Dayem said that the US seeks to occupy Darfur as the UN gives cover, adding that Resolution 1706 consolidates occupation sanctioned by the international organization.

“There are attempts that target the Sudan and its wealth, and there is a suspected scheme to remap ..

Amidst heavy media presence, the MB parliamentary bloc (88 MPs) held its first elections ever to choose members of its administrative office.

The voting process occurred in a highly organized fashion and was a reflection of the true democratic nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. All 88 Muslim Brotherhood members of parliament voted in the free and open elections. Votes were casted in ..

 A number of Swedish lawmakers championing the just Palestinian issue has demanded that the "oppressive" US-led western economic and political siege on the Palestinian people must be lifted immediately, and the Palestinian people should be allowed to live an honorable life.

In their message of support, which they addressed to Dr. Atef Odwan, the PA minister for refugees’ affairs, t..

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has affirmed that the Hamas Movement was not a "terrorist organization" but rather represented a legitimate anti-occupation resistance that should be backed.

He said in press statements that the Hamas-led PA government was the target of an "oppressive siege" spearheaded by the US administration, which claims championing democracy.

"We support ..

The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) has imposed a blackout on the transfer of kidnapped PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Duwaik from Kfar Yona jail to the Megiddo prison, according to legal sources Sunday.

Lawyer Sanaa Duwaik, of the change and reform parliamentary bloc’s office in Al-Khalil, said that the Kfar Yona prison authority had been delaying her visit to Dr. Duwaik for the past ten days.

Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Studies Robert Satloff gave an interview to Egyptian independent daily al Masry al youm in which he said that the West will never allow Iran to possess Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs).” If the US fails to prevent the Iranian leaders from pursuiting their nuclear program, it [US] will resort to war”, he said.

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Three Palestinian legal societies on Saturday denounced the ongoing attacks against Palestinian refugees in Iraq at the hands of the American occupation forces (AOF) and Iraqi racist militias.

A joint press release for those societies said that the "racist repression" against those refugees was on the rise, reporting that in the course of the past week the AOF units twice stormed the Ba..

An Egyptian official has affirmed that the closure of the Rafah terminal south of the Gaza Strip, the only access for its inhabitants to the outside world, was closed on Monday at the orders of the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).

The crossing, which links the Strip to Egypt, was re-opened on Friday for two days then extended for a third day.

The unidentified official, who ..

The member of the Hamas Movement’s political bureau, Mohammed Nazzal, has described recognizing the Hebrew state as "political suicide" for Hamas that will never occur.

Nazzal’s remarks came during an interview with the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper in the Kuwaiti capital Kuwait during his visit to the Gulf state...

Commenting on Iraqi President Galal Talebani’s statements calling for extending the stay of the US forces in Iraq , member of Politburo in the Iraqi Islamic Party Dr, Alaa Mekki said that his party, like most of Iraqi people, opposes the US occupation to Iraq” and all our practices and policies fall under this strategy”, he said.

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, he asserted that..

In his interview with Ikhwanweb following the recent elections to choose new leadership for the MB Parliamentary Bloc, Dr. Hamdy Hassan, Bloc’s media spokesman, stressed that Muslim Brotherhood practices real and genuine democracy in all its hierarchical structures “The elections were applauded by all Members of Parliament as they were held in transparency and secrecy”, Hassan said, den..

Professor of Political Sciences Dr. Hassan Nafeaa wrote an article to highlight President Mubarak’s recent speech in the National Party’s fourth annual Congress.

 Dr. Nafeaa said that he didn’t write this article until he read and heard the speech several times. “ This speech confirmed my claims that President Mubarak is the first, nay, the only one to blame for the abject failure ..