Members of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) in Tunis have called for sacking two ministers after they breached the Tunisian Constitution by allowing Israeli tourists to enter into the...

Jordan has agreed to hand over jailed Libyan Islamist Mohammed Dersi to Tripoli in return for the release of the Jordanian ambassador Fawaz Al-Itian who was kidnapped in Libya...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has harshly criticised the mass death sentences issued yesterday against hundreds of its supporters saying the heinous sentences reveal Egypt is ruled by a fascist military...

The chairman of the Strong Egypt Party Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh criticised yesterday’s criminal court ruling that sentenced 37 citizens to death and 490 to life imprisonment, in addition...

An Egyptian court issued a ruling on Monday banning the activities of the April 6 Youth Movement, the most prominent opposition movement that played a key role in the...

Founder of the Liberal Ghad Al-Thawra party Ayman Nour launched the “Boycotters” campaign Sunday, calling for boycotting the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for May 26-27 in Egypt. In a...

Algerian media quoted diplomatic sources Sunday as saying that Algeria’s Foreign Minister turned down a request by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to label the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist....

Private Algerian TV channels have been banned from covering President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s inauguration ceremony scheduled today at the Palais des Nations. Several private TV channels said the Algerian presidency...

Chairman of Private Channels Department at the Egyptian Broadcasting Authority Abdel-Fattah Hassan said that Egyptian television authorities will not be able to broadcast the 2014 FIFA world cup games...

Some 683 supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have been sentenced to death, the Minya Criminal Court ruled today. Judicial and security sources said the court transferred documents...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (The Commission) has requested that the Egyptian Interim Authority immediately suspends the penalties of 529 people who were sentenced to death...

Egypt’s Minya court handed down unprecedented lengthy jail terms, between 57 and 88 years, against 11 anti-coup protesters on Sunday. The same judge who issued today’s verdicts, Saieed Sabrah,...

Senior Libyan sources revealed to Al-Araby Al-Gadeed website that the visit by deputy US Secretary of State William Burns to Tripoli two days ago included a warning by Burns...

Head of Hamas political bureau Khalid Meshaal and the Palestinian ambassador in Tunisia expressed their thanks to the head of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdah Rashid al-Ghannouchi for his...

Two anti-coup protesters were shot dead by riot police in the southern Cairo city of Fayoum on Friday. Sources told AFP that one of the fatalities was a woman...

Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Hussein refuted claims by Egyptian media that the group has relocated to a particular country or that it carries out activities which...

There is no such entity as the “Free Egyptian Army” on the western borders of Egypt, Egyptian deputy minister of interior said Saturday. In an interview with the state-owned...

Ethiopia has completed construction of 32 per cent of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and is “prepared for any confrontation with the Egyptian government”, the country’s Prime Minister Hailemariam...

The US has allocated some $1.5 billion in aid to Egypt for the fiscal year 2014, US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said yesterday. Psaki pointed out that the...

The Egyptian Observatory of Rights and Freedoms yesterday issued a report highlighting crimes against humanity committed by the Egyptian Army in the context of fighting “terrorist organisations” in the...

Human Rights Watch yesterday urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to raise concerns about Egypt’s human rights record during his meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi scheduled...

Egypt’s Addameer National Front spokesperson Amr Abdel Hadi refuted media claims that the head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has been banned from speaking...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz announced yesterday his intention to run in the presidential elections scheduled for this summer. Abdel Aziz said in a press statement: “A decree...

Egypt has proven its support for US and Israeli interests in the Middle East so it is qualified to receive US military support, American media reported the US administration...

On the sixth session of the “Jailbreaks” trial, ousted president Mohamed Morsi reiterated that the “coup will fail” and that “the coup authorities have turned against the judiciary itself.”...

Abdullah AlShamy, one of the jailed Al-Jazeera reporters, wrote from his prison that he wishes to be reunited with family by his birthday on the 5th of May. Alshamy...

Egyptian leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi lashed out at the latest court decision to raise household gas prices, dismissing it as unjust towards the poor. On his Twitter account,...

The head of the anti-corruption agency at the Palestinian Authority Rafik Al-Natsha demanded Egyptian business tycoon Naguib Sawiris to reveal the destiny of $1.4 billion he seized from the...

Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Mohamed Hamid denied on Wednesday that Egypt had resumed its gas supplies to his country. Egyptian gas supplies to Jordan stopped in...

Khalid Mohammed Abdul-Raouf, a student journalist jailed after the military coup in Egypt on suspicion of working for Al-Jazeera network, has confirmed to the Cairo Criminal Court that political...

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said yesterday that his government will respect the Tunisian Parliament’s decision to deny Israeli Jews entry to Tunisia “even if the decision will harm...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars condemned the indiscriminate arrests and torture in Egyptian prisons especially those against women, scholars, journalists and youth. In a statement, the Union called...