By MATHILDA HELLER AUGUST 20, 2026

The birth mother of Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed worked for a designated terror group that financed Hamas and the Taliban, the Midwesterner first revealed on Tuesday. The information in the report was separately verified by The Jerusalem Post.

El-Sayed was mostly raised by his Egyptian father, Mohamed El-Sayed, and his father’s second wife, Jacqueline. He does not mention his mother – Fatten Fathy Elkomy – often in his campaigns, as she remarried and returned to the Middle East when he was young.NATO is prepared to address any threat and will always do what is necessary to defend all allies, a NATO official said on Wednesday in response to questions about a report in the Financial Times that Iran has allegedly weighed attacking US military targets in Europe should Donald Trump escalate the war.