Takfir wal-Hijra was the popular name given to a radical Islamist group Jama'at al-Muslimin founded by Shukri Mustafa which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Although the group was crushed by Egyptian security forces[...]
A gunman opened fire in a mosque during prayers Friday night, killing 20 people, and then was shot to death by police, state television reported. The attacker, identified as a member...