Report: Muslim Brotherhood Embedded in US Agencies
Dr. Qanta Ahmed of the Independent Women’s Forum joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss an ISGAP report that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated multiple US agencies and that Gov. Greg Abbotts’ R-Texas. CAIR has been labeled a terrorist organization.
JOHANNESBURG: Citing Iran, the Trump administration is taking more action against the Muslim Brotherhood – this time in one of the world’s worst conflicts: Sudan’s civil war.
On Monday, the State Department declared the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) a “Designated Global Terrorist” and plans to designate the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization effective March 16, 2026. The statement also included a warning to Iran over its interference in the conflict.
“The SMB has contributed more than 20,000 fighters to the war in Sudan, many of whom have received training and other support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” the statement noted.
It added: “As the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime has funded and directed malign activities worldwide through its IRGC. The United States will use all available tools to deprive the Iranian regime and Muslim Brotherhood affiliates of the means to engage in or support terrorism.”
TRUMP ADMIN steps up peace efforts in Sudan as civil war leaves tens of thousands dead
Fighters from the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel group active in Darfur state and backing army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, attend a graduation ceremony in the southeastern state of Gedaref on March 28, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
In November, the State Department sanctioned the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, declaring it a terrorist organization in those countries.
The organization, the State Department noted, consists of “the Sudanese Islamic Movement and its armed wing – the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade (BBMB), (and) uses unbridled violence against civilians to undermine efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan and promote its violent Islamist ideology.”
FILE – Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards march during a parade. The IRGC has been designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a foreign terrorist organization. A large part of her work consists of operating covertly outside Iran. (Reuters)
The statement added that the group’s “fighters have carried out mass executions of civilians in the areas they have captured, and have repeatedly and summarily executed civilians based on race, ethnicity, or perceived ties to opposition groups.”
Sudanese soldiers take part in a military parade in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on August 23, 2025 (Ebrahim Hamid, AFP via Getty Images)
Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador to Yemen, added that the Brotherhood has a “strong component” in the Sudanese regular army.
Fitton-Brown added that the Brotherhood in Sudan has historic ties to Osama Bin Laden, who along with Al Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 terrorist attack, and stated that the State Department’s move is significant. “It is the first concrete indication that the November executive order was only the beginning of a process.”
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Sudanese displaced persons gather at the Zam Zam refugee camp outside the town of El-Fashir in Sudan’s Darfur region, during a visit by UN officials. The UN’s humanitarian and refugee agencies on Wednesday appealed for $4.1 billion in international aid for embattled civilians in Sudan, amid signs that some may be starving after nearly a year of war there between the forces of rival generals. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
Regarding the sanctions against the Brotherhood in several countries in the region, he said: “I expect many more to follow, possibly starting with al-Islah in Yemen.” He said the move “puts political pressure on Sudan by effectively associating its government with a terrorist entity.”
The consequences of the almost three-year civil war for the people of Sudan are terrible. Last month, the Council on Foreign Relations’ global conflict tracker said death toll estimates vary widely, with the former US envoy to Sudan suggesting as many as 400,000 people have been killed since the conflict began on April 15, 2023. More than 11 million have been displaced, sparking the world’s worst displacement crisis.
On Monday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho., posted on
Fitton-Brown said the State Department’s ruling against the Brotherhood in Sudan “is good because it objectively targets a group of people who have brought untold misery to Sudan over the past decades.” It is not an expression of support for the RSF. It potentially strengthens democratic forces within Sudan, although it will not be enough to change the way Sudan is governed or end the civil war without much more proactive external involvement in the country.”
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Nicholas Coghlan, a former Canadian diplomat in Khartoum, was not as hopeful, telling Toronto’s Globe and Mail that hardline factions within leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s governing alliance “will now push him to ignore the US and other potential mediators and pull out all the stops,” adding that “they have nothing left to lose by holding back.”
