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Egyptian security sources revealed that the assets of 93 firms owned by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders and members have been frozen in the wake of the interim government's decision...

Egypt's Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat is set to prosecute Information Minister Dorreya Sharaf El-Din on charges of wasting public funds amounting to $2 million. Sharaf El-Din was appointed as...

Founder of the Egyptian Tamarrod campaign, Mohamed Fawzi, has said that defected founders and members of the group are preparing to launch a new anti-military coup movement, Tamarrod 2....

Al-Dostour (the Constitution) Party, led by former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei, has denied the recent claims made by media outlets regarding the party's alleged support for nominating General Abdel...

Statistics released in Egypt have revealed the details of the casualties sustained since the military coup at the beginning of July 2013. Figures from the Egyptian Centre for Economic...

The foreign ministry in Cairo has rejected US concerns over the political situation in Egypt, including the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organisation". Spokesperson Bader Abdul-Ati...

In yet another twist to the Egyptian authorities ongoing "anti-terror" campaign, international media are reporting that Egyptian prosecutors have summoned Vodafone Egypt, the nation's largest mobile carrier and majority...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has strongly denied the accusations of Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim, who is claiming that Hamas provided military training in the Gaza Strip for...

VIDEO In a new leak aired by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr on Thursday, Egyptian Minister of Defence Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, during a meeting in an army club on...

A ministerial committee formed by the interim government in Egypt announced on Friday the preliminary list of Muslim Brotherhood figures whose assets have been frozen in accordance with a...

On Friday the Egyptian National Alliance announced that security forces killed 19 'martyrs' during the anti-coup demonstrations. The Alliance called the first Friday of 2014 'The Population Ignite their...

Egypt witnessed a new wave of demonstrations on Saturday as the funerals of the victims of the security forces turned to mass protests calling for those responsible to be...

Libyan officials charged with preventing illegal migration have revealed that the administration has deported more than 30,000 illegal migrants out of the 40,000 who were arrested in 2013. Most...

A nationwide committee in Tunisia has called for the constitution to outlaw any "normalisation" with Israel. The National Committee for Supporting Arab Resistance and Fighting Normalisation and Zionism has...

According to a report by the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Jordanian decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned about the ongoing political crisis in Egypt and the prospect that the country...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has condemned the continued "enforced disappearance" of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the ongoing ban on visits by his lawyers. The movement accused the...

A delegation of Iraqi security officials has arrived in Cairo for a four-day visit to discuss cooperation with Egypt in"the fight against terrorism and organised crime", it has been...

The April 6 Youth Movement has accused the interim president of Egypt of exploiting his legislative authority to pass a law "that opens the door to the manipulation of...

The Sudanese minister of foreign affairs, Ali Karti, announced on Monday that there are ongoing consultations between Khartoum and Juba to deploy joint forces to secure oil sites in...

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA) approved on Tuesday chapters of the new constitution which guarantees the "republican" nature of the security apparatus and the army and their "full impartiality"...

VIDEO Below is a transcript of the video: We took part in the 30 June (demonstration), and that turned out to be a big mistake, and we took part...

The second hearing of the trial against Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi and his aides, scheduled to take place today at the National Police Academy's court in the east...

Supporters of Egypt's ousted democratically-elected president have organised dozens of protests and human chains across the country as his trial resumes today, Wednesday. Mohamed Morsi is charged with inciting...

Tunisia's Ennahda-led government is set to resign in the next few days to make way for an interim administration once government and opposition parties agree on the makeup of...

Algerian authorities have detained a Moroccan citizen, accusing him of spying for his country, the online publication Opinion Today said on Friday. The detention has sparked a wave of...

On Friday the Freedom and Justice party warned of the "hideous," aggressive treatment of prisoners inside the coup government jails, a statement has said. "The fascist, bloody coup has...

Egyptian minister for religious affairs in the coup government, Mohamed Mokhtar Jomaa, has banned the Friday prayer in mosques with an area of less than 80 Sqm in Egypt....

Tunisia's Constituent Assembly ratified on Thursday an article stipulating that all male and female citizens have the same rights and duties and are equal before the law without discrimination....

Egypt's security forces have released Jihad Al-Khayat, a first year student in the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Jihad arrived at her home in a...

A number of Palestinians have been arrested by Egyptian police while travelling through Cairo. The men have been charged with "membership of Hamas". A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance...

The Bloomberg website reported on Wednesday that during tripartite negotiations between Cairo, Khartoum and Addis Ababa in Khartoum, Ethiopia refused to guarantee Egypt's water allocation from the River Nile....

VIDEO The coordinator of the Judges for the Sake of Egypt movement, Waleed Shorrabi said on Wednesday that more than 80 per cent of judges in Egypt are against...