The Latest Breaking News from the Muslim Brotherhood

The Jordanian authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition movement in the kingdom, in a major new crackdown. On Wednesday April 23, security forces raided Brotherhood offices, confiscating assets and property, and outlawed all of the group’s activities.

Jordan is a close Western ally that has long been seen as a bastion of stability in the often volatile Middle East.

Ban comes week after 16 members were arrested, accused of threatening national security

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule.

The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian activist Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was held due to an Egyptian arrest warrant, a Lebanese official said.

Almost universal support suggests interest in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s mix of national and religious ideologies

After years of silence, I can finally write about Syria again

Voter apathy sparred with anger over the war on Gaza as Jordanians made their choices for parliament.

43 dissidents sentenced in UAE mass trial criticized for targeting dissidents, not terrorism. Activists raise concerns about due process violations and lac...

Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell’s update of their 2010 survey of the Islamist movement argues that violent struggle with Israel is a major part of its identity, but not its only goal