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Qatari-owned satellite channel Al-Jazeera has filed a lawsuit against the Egyptian authorities. The channel's London-based lawyers have accused the regime of arresting some of the channel's reporters without any...

In what is being billed as a "national security operation", the Egyptian army is busy demolishing tunnels underneath the border with the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers are also demolishing buildings...

A French citizen, who had been imprisoned after breaking curfew in Cairo, was killed by inmates in an Egyptian prison earlier this week. Egyptian security sources said that the...

A respected military analyst has said that the coup in Egypt "has failed" just two months after the overthrow of elected President Mohammed Morsi. General Safwat El-Zayat noted that...

Former Egyptian Electricity Minister Osama Kamal has appeared happy on a local Egyptian television network, rejoicing: "We succeeded in closing the only electricity plant in Gaza." Speaking to a...

Egyptian Apache attack helicopters and Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew over the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, before heading for the Egyptian city of the...

An Israeli security envoy arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for a short visit that only lasted for several hours. This is the second visit of an Israeli envoy to...

Egyptian army and police officers have imposed a strict siege on the small village of Dalja for the second day running. The village is in the Al-Minya Governorate south...

Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday morning between Egyptian army forces and Egyptian Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula along the border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses reported. The witnesses...

Cairo Criminal Court has backed four orders issued by the attorney general to freeze the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hisham Barakat filed the requests to the Court to...

Egypt prepares for a new gas crisis after talks with Qatar to send more supplies of natural gas have halted. During preliminary talks in May, Doha had agreed to...

Video A lawyer from one of the Egyptian towns brutally attacked by the coup authority's security forces has denied claims that it has been held by armed Islamists or...

Egypt's Justice Minister Counsellor Adel Abdul Hamid has ruled to dismiss the Chairwoman of Forensic Doctors, Dr Magda Al-Qaradawi, from her current position following the publishing of an autopsy...

Residents of the Kerdasa neighbourhood in the Giza Governorate say that Egyptian security forces have burned residential areas in the neighbourhood under the pretext of searching for residents who...

Human rights activists and International Criminal Court judges have asked the US to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir when he arrives in New York to attend the UN General...

A retired army general has said that the coup government's use of security forces to try to solve every problem indicates that it is failing to manage the country's...

Yemeni activist and Nobel Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has described the events in Egypt since 30 June as a complete military coup to overthrow the will of the Egyptian...

Dozens of Palestinian refugees fleeing from the violence in Syria have been detained by the Egyptian authorities. The conditions in which the refugees are being held have been described...

Egypt's leading Salafist party would be satisfied if the next Egyptian President had a military background. Dr. Younis Makhyon, a senior member of the Al-Nour Party, has revealed that...

Egypt's Minister of Tourism has said that the Egyptian tourism sector has lost more than 20 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.9 billion) over the past year. In a statement to...

Sources in the Muslim Brotherhood said that leading Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal described his "vision" to resolve the political crisis in Egypt during a meeting with prominent Muslim...

Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has rejected a demand by the secularist opposition to step down from government until the upcoming elections have taken place. The demand was made after the...

An overwhelming majority of Al-Jazeera's viewers has predicted that the roadmap adopted by the Egyptian army would fail.   The poll revealed that 91.4 per cent of those polled...

Tunisian President Al-Moncef Al-Marzouki said on Monday that Iran would get respect from the Arab world if it adopted the role as an objective mediator to achieve peace in...

The Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies has announced the results of a poll it recently conducted to measure Egyptian public opinion on the preferred background of the next...

The Arab Defence Association is raising funds through Egyptian media organisations to pay for the building of a statute honouring Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal for his efforts in...

Ibrahim Munir, a member of the Guidance Council of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, has stressed that Monday's court ruling to disband the group and ban all its activities is not...

An official from Egypt's General Petroleum Authority announced that negotiations are currently taking place between Egyptian government officials and their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE to...

MEMO EXCLUSIVE It is almost two weeks since MEMO published news of the video recording in which the failed Egyptian presidential candidate, Ahmad Shafiq, confirmed his contact with Egypt's...

A prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has called for Egyptian students to put their differences aside and to work together to confront the "fascist military coup". Dr Essam...

Spokesman of the Egyptian military forces Ahmed Ali has recognized that the US is helping the Egyptian army to destroy the tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Speaking...

Coptic political analyst and founder of Anti-Coup Christians, Rami Jan has affirmed that there are many Christian Egyptians who reject the army's bloody coup and its crimes and massacres...