The former deputy leader of Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front, Shaikh Ali Binhaj, has accused the authorities of denying him the opportunity to stand as a candidate for the presidential...

What happened in Egypt on July 30 was not a coup, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria said. Speaking to a delegation from Britain’s House of...

DEBKAfile, an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, has argued in a report that Israel will pay a heavy price for its continued security coordination with Egypt’s Minister...

Saudi columnist Muhanna Al-Habil has launched a strong attack on the UAE and its policies regarding Egypt. The writer accused the Emirates of setting up an axis in the...

The Egyptians for Democracy UK  condemns Tony Blair’s misguided remarks on Egypt which he made in a televised interview with Sky News Arabia during his latest visit to Cairo....

An informed government source in Jordan has said that closing the borders with Iraq for security reasons has led to the suspension of oil imports to the kingdom. The...

The former Secretary General of the Arab League and President of the Committee of 50 that put the new Egyptian constitution into place has said that he believes that...

Mohamed El-Erian, the former chief executive of US-based global investment management firm Pacific Investment Management Company, known as Pimco, is rumoured to become a key economic advisor to Egyptian...

The Egyptian Popular Current, founded by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, announced that: “The statement issued by the Egyptian army on Monday, regarding the approval of Defence Minister Abdel...

The Education Minister of the interim Egyptian government, Mahmoud Abu El-Nasr, has called upon Egyptians to donate money to his ministry in order to repair, equip and build new...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has demanded the formation of a neutral commission of inquiry to investigate the Egyptian accusations against the Gaza Strip. The movement issued a statement...

Amal Karbul, the minister of tourism in the new Tunisian government, headed by Mehdi Gomaa, has resigned from the government before officially starting her new role after being accused...

The Egyptian Public Prosecutor has referred 20 Al-Jazeera journalists to the criminal court for “aiding a terrorist group” and related charges. Four of the defendants are non-Egyptian citizens, including...

Diplomatic sources have said that the African Union has refused Egypt’s request to join the organisation’s Peace and Security Council summit which started in Addis Ababa on Wednesday. The...

The General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, has told a court in Cairo that the movement will not resort to using violence. Speaking from the cage in...

Senior Muslim scholar Shaikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has called upon Saudi Arabia to stop subsidising the military coup in Egypt. He said that the government in Riyadh “committed a mistake”...

A spokesperson for the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that the Algerian ambassador in Rabat had been summoned to hear an official protest about...

The International Quartet envoy to the peace process, Tony Blair, has arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for a short visit that will last only a few hours. Egyptian sources...

The Cairo Criminal Court has accused more than 100 people of helping ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi escape from prison in 2011 during the January revolution. Several Palestinians from...

South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim told the participants of a symposium that: “Whether we like Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood or not, the group...

Egyptians for Democracy UK (EDUK) are shocked by the Egyptian Military Council’s statement on Monday January 27, which promoted General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to field marshal and mandated his...

Egypt will hold ten political trials on Tuesday, which marks the third anniversary of the events surrounding 28th January 2011, dubbed the “Friday of Anger”, while the Anti-Coup Pro-Legitimacy...

Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour has promoted Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to the rank of field marshal, according to reports on state television on Monday. Other media...

Former Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer revealed on Monday evening that Israel is encouraging Egyptian Defence Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to run for the presidency, even though the occupation...

US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel phoned Egypt’s Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday to discuss Egypt’s political transition and to emphasise the strong relationship between the...

The trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, along with 129 defendants began today on charges of “prison escape” during the 2011 revolution that toppled long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak....

The Zionist Immigration Authority, affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Interior, has started to transfer hundreds of African migrants from the city of Tal Rabei’ to the new Holot...

Britain’s Minister for the Middle East, Hugh Robertson, condemned the violence that took place in Egypt on the third anniversary of the 25 January revolution. In a statement published...

Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour announced on Sunday modifications to the so-called roadmap imposed on the country in the wake of the coup which ousted democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi...

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egyptian sociologist and chairman of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Human Rights, urged the interim government to turn schools and mosques in Egypt into jails, temporarily, to...

Egypt has evacuated its Egyptian embassy staff in Tripoli and Benghazi consulate in Libya after five Egyptian diplomats, including the administrative attaché Hamdi Ghanem and the cultural attache Hilali...

Algeria’s main opposition parties have announced their intention to boycott the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for April 2014. The Movement of Society for Peace and the Rally for Culture...