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Egypt Sentences 59 Brotherhood Suspects Over 2013 Protest

Egyptian security forces round up suspected protesters after a deadly 2013 operation to disperse a six-week sit-in in the capital's Rabaa al-Adaweya Square Engy Imad ENGY IMAD/AFP/File
Egyptian security forces round up suspected protesters after a deadly 2013 operation to disperse a six-week sit-in in the capital's Rabaa al-Adaweya Square Engy Imad ENGY IMAD/AFP/File
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Egypt Sentences 59 Brotherhood Suspects Over 2013 Protest

Egyptian security forces round up suspected protesters after a deadly 2013 operation to disperse a six-week sit-in in the capital's Rabaa al-Adaweya Square Engy Imad ENGY IMAD/AFP/File
Egyptian security forces round up suspected protesters after a deadly 2013 operation to disperse a six-week sit-in in the capital's Rabaa al-Adaweya Square Engy Imad ENGY IMAD/AFP/File

An Egyptian court sentenced 59 suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in prison on Thursday over the 2013 Rabaa al-Adawiya protest.

Seven other defendants were handed five-year sentences following the latest mass trial in the government's crackdown on the former ruling party, now blacklisted as a terror group.

The court acquitted 29 of the accused.

The charges related to a nearly six-week-long sit-in in the capital's Rabaa al-Adaweya Square was triggered by the overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsi.

The charges in the Rabaa trial included organizing or participating in the sit-in, blocking roads and the murder of security personnel ordered to disperse the protest.

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US Airstrikes on Syria Kill 37 Militants Affiliated with Extremist Groups

US soldiers are seen during a joint military exercise between US-led forces and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022. (AFP)
US soldiers are seen during a joint military exercise between US-led forces and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022. (AFP)
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US Airstrikes on Syria Kill 37 Militants Affiliated with Extremist Groups

US soldiers are seen during a joint military exercise between US-led forces and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022. (AFP)
US soldiers are seen during a joint military exercise between US-led forces and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022. (AFP)

In Syria, 37 militants affiliated to the extremist ISIS group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday.

Two of the dead were senior militants, it said.

US Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria on Tuesday, targeting a senior militant from the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group and eight others. They say he was responsible for overseeing military operations.

They also announced a strike from earlier this month on Sept. 16, where they conducted a “large-scale airstrike” on an ISIS training camp in a remote undisclosed location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 militants, including “at least four Syrian leaders.”

“The airstrike will disrupt ISIS’ capability to conduct operations against US interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the statement read.

There are some 900 US forces in Syria, along with an undisclosed number of contractors, mostly trying to prevent any comeback by the extremist ISIS group, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control of large swaths of territory.

US forces advise and assist their key allies in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, located not far from strategic areas where Iran-backed militant groups are present, including a key border crossing with Iraq.