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Egyptian security forces killed 34 people yesterday after opening fire on an anti-coup demonstration in Cairo. More than 300 were wounded when the forces used live fire as the...

In a statement issued on Monday the movement commented on calls to dissolve the Constituent Assembly (the parliament) and the government, and warned against a repeat of Egypt's scenario...

An official of the Salvation Front said on Wednesday that the interim government includes a number of ministers from the "remnants" of the deposed Mubarak regime. Hussein Abdul-Ghani named...

A new scandal for coup supporters in Egypt has emerged after Egyptian ON TV, which is backed by Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiris, accidently aired a discussion between the billionaire...

The leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has called on anti-coup protesters in Egypt to stand up for their rights and reject the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. Shaikh Rashid...

An official in the security directorate of Alexandria confirmed that the person who was arrested yesterday, Sunday, for throwing two young boys from the roof of an apartment block...

Muslim Brotherhood official Mohamed Bishr has denied that the movement has had any formal contacts with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in order to start a...

The field hospital in Midan Adawiya has reported that almost 200 supporters of the ousted President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, have been shot and killed by the army and...

Two prominent anti-coup politicians have been arrested by the interim authorities in Egypt. Former parliamentarian Essam Sultan and Abul Ela Madi were detained, it is believed, for articulating their...

The arbitrary detention of Muslim Brotherhood members signals the return of a police state, a movement spokesman has said. "That is why the Brotherhood cannot accept the coup against...

A senior official of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has claimed that the armed forces are actually against the military coup which deposed President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday. Speaking...

The Yemeni activist and Nobel peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that accusations of "spying" against President Mohamed Morsi are a "farce". She pointed out that establishing international contacts...

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the UAE has made a brief visit to Cairo. General Hamad Mohamed Al-Ramthi arrived in the Egyptian capital on Thursday...

In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Compassionate We have monitored the reactions to our first statement; some hailed it, some were critical and some were...

The Egyptian army and opposition groups have "misjudged" the power of the Muslim Brotherhood, a leading journalist has claimed. The editor of the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, Abdul-Bari Atwan,...

A leading member of the Popular Current political party has revealed that its representative in the National Salvation Front will be Dr Azzazi Ali Azzazi, who will replace Hamdeen...

Egyptian and international human rights and cultural bodies have expressed their concerns about the focus of certain media to broadcast or publish material that spreads hatred and incites or...

The deputy chief of Hamas' political bureau, Musa abu-Marzouq, has said that there is no crisis between his movement and Egypt and denied that he had been asked to...

Prominent writer and journalist Wael Qandil said on Saturday that Egypt is living through a period of time that could be called "the stage of eliminating the effects of...

Video Egyptian police opened fire towards anti-coup protesters on Friday while they were praying in front of the El-Arish Governorate building in north Sinai. The shooting was apparently intended...

A Coptic intellectual has described the Egyptian army's removal of President Morsi as a coup d'état and predicted that a counter-coup has to be expected. This, said Rafik Habib,...

In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful. "And hold fast, all together, by the rope of Allah and be not divided." (Qur'an 3:104) I address...

The head of the Renaissance Party in Tunisia's governing coalition, Rachid Al-Ghanouchi, considers what is happening in Egypt including the dismissal of the former President Mohammad Morsi a "democratic...

The number of pro-Morsi protesters in Al-Nahda Square has been increasing since the horrific news of the massacre near Rabaa Al-Adawiyya Square. Protesters say that this is a response...

The information advisor of the Freedom and Justice Party has issued a list of six goals for the protests against this week's military coup in Egypt. Writing on his...

Sudanese academic and prominent Islamist Professor Al-Tayeb Zain al-Abdin has said that Egyptian nationalists met the American government's goals when they removed the Muslim Brotherhood from government in Egypt....

A senior official of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party said on Sunday that they are not resisting the interim government in order to free the kidnapped president, but "to...

Dr Abdullah Al-Ashaal, a law professor at the American University, said that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's call for Egyptians to demonstrate could lead Egypt into a cycle of violence and...

Egypt's former justice minister, Counsellor Ahmed Mekky, has claimed that handing over power to Mohammed Morsi in January 2012 was "just for show" and that there was a "premeditated...

The Egyptian health ministry has revealed that 30 people were killed in the country's anti-coup demonstrations on Friday. Four hundred and sixty protesters needed hospital treatment. As protesters approached...

The Ruling coalition in Tunis said on Thursday that it is ready to play the role of mediator to lessen the tensions that have erupted in Egypt in the...

Nobel Prize laureate Tawakul Karaman has criticised the military coup on Egypt. The Yemeni political analyst said that she expects the coup to lead to the return to the...