Why Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood crackdown is long overdue
Intelligence about the activities of Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese Islamists will rapidly implicate Qatar and Turkey as the Brotherhood’s key international sponsors
Edmund Fitton-Brown
Edmund Fitton-Brown is a former UK ambassador to Yemen, and former UN coordinator. He is currently a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Trump is right to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood
From our UK edition
Donald Trump has begun the process of banning the Muslim Brotherhood. The US President asked his officials last week to investigate whether certain chapters of the group should be classed as foreign terrorist organisations, which would result in economic and travel sanctions. Some are portrayed this as a reckless lurch into Islamophobia. In fact, it
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The United Nations is falling apart
From our UK edition
As the world’s leaders and foreign ministers meet in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, recognition of a Palestinian state is being paraded as progress towards peace. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. It only confirms what has become increasingly obvious to anyone watching the UN over the
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How an international community of do-gooders made the US lose the plot in Yemen
As British Ambassador to Yemen, I watched Washington with growing frustration
