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Hamas Hamas
Founded 1987
Headquarters: Gaza, Palestinian territories
Ideology: Sunni Islamism, Sharia law, Islamic fundamentalism, Palestinian nationalism
Religion: Sunni Islam
Founders: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin & Mahmoud Zahar
- Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) welcomes Hamas’s political chief Khaled Meshaal before a meeting in Khartoum March 6, 2011. REUTERS
Leadership
Chief of the Political Bureau: Khaled Meshaal / Khaled Mashal (exiled)
Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau: Mousa Abu Marzouq
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah
Foreign Minister: Mahmoud Zahar
Links
- Tuesday 7 December 2010
Document leaked to Wikileaks whistle-blowing website. Published by the Guardian newspaper, Monday 6 December 2010 21.30 GMT
US embassy cables: Clinton asks Sudan to block Iranian arms supplies to Hamas
Thursday, 22 January 2009, (...)
- Thursday 22 November 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 21, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad Al Malki, paid a visit this week to Addis Ababa where he held talks with Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn, on the current crises (...)
- Tuesday 6 November 2012
November 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has accused its rival, the Islamist opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), of being directly involved in the Israeli airstrike that allegedly destroyed (...)
- Friday 26 October 2012
October 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The speaker of the Sudanese parliament, Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Tahir, declared on Thursday that the Israeli attack on Al-Yarmook arms factory will not deter his country from continuing its support to the (...)
- Monday 28 November 2011
November 27, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Hamas’ politburo Khalid Mish’al arrived Saturday in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where he held talks president Al-Bashir and briefed him on the progress of Palestinian reconciliation talks in (...)
- Wednesday 23 May 2012
May 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of foreign affairs, Ali Karti, has suggested that Israel is likely to be behind an air strike that destroyed a car and killed one person in the country’s eastern city of Port Sudan on (...)
- Sunday 19 December 2010
December 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The United States has attempted to stop Sudan being used as a transit for Iranian arms en route to the Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement via Egypt, according to leaked documents from US embassies. (...)
- Saturday 28 July 2012
July 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A group of five armed men driving a plateless car have attacked a marketplace in eastern Sudan, a local daily reported on Friday.
The assailing group, which is affiliated to the Arab nomadic tribe of (...)
- Sunday 18 November 2012
November 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Islamic Movement and the Palestinian group Hamas have pledged to support each other after an alleged Israeli attack on a military factory in Khartoum. Sudan’s Vice President Al-Haj Adam Youssef (...)
- Tuesday 11 October 2011
October 10, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan has rejected an American request to cut its relations with Iran and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) catalogued respectively as supporting terror and as a terrorist group by the (...)
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