Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were...

Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the risk of a looming humanitarian crisis in North Sinai as a result of the Egyptian army’s military operation against terrorist elements...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named Player of the Year by England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) yesterday, becoming the first Egyptian to receive the award. Salah was rewarded for his performances which...

Ousted Egypt President Mohamed Morsi will die in prison if violations against him continue, a Swiss based human rights group has warned in a new report. Morsi has been...

On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt known as Shawkan, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the...

French President Emmanuel Macron called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday to discuss the Syrian crisis, Sisi’s office said. Macron addressed the military strike that France, the United...

When Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Syria and leaving it to others to take care of its affairs, the common belief was that by others...

Egypt has failed to hold a joint meeting between the Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) delegations in Cairo. Fatah leader and member of the PA Ayman Al-Raqab told ERM News yesterday...

Ethiopia and Sudan have ignored an Egyptian invitation for a meeting this week in Cairo to resume discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Last week, the Egyptian Foreign Minister,...

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has been relieved of his duties yesterday following the issuance of a presidential decree, Sudan News Agency reported. On Wednesday, Ghandour updated parliament on...

Al-Mesryoon, Egyptian prisons released 677 prisoners following the presidential pardon to mark Police Day and the January Revolution. The High Commission for Amnesty granted conditional release to 591 inmates. The...

Egyptian armed forces yesterday announced that they had targeted Nasser Abu Zaqul, the leader of Wilayat Sinai, the Daesh-affiliated group which operates in the Sinai Peninsula. The armed forces...

In his speech before the recent Arab Summit held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the head of the Egyptian regime warned of the challenges — described as systematic and unprecedented...

Sudan has filed a complaint at the United Nations Security Council against Egypt after it allowed residents of the disputed Halayeb triangle to vote in last month’s presidential elections....

The mysterious way in which the powerful Libyan General Khalifa Haftar disappeared makes us believe that removing him from the scene, either by means of sudden illness, or dismissing...

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, has issued a fatwa forbidding the purchasing of Facebook likes, declaring it contrary to Islamic law. The Grand Mufti’s ruling was published...

Saudi Arabia is holding talks with the US over sending troops into Syria as part of a wider international coalition, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has said. “We...

The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed El-Beltagy to one year in prison for obstructing court proceedings. The former MP was accused of causing a disturbance...

The Egyptian parliament passed a bill to regulate the legal procedures to seize, manage and dispose assets of those who are classified as “terrorist organisations” by the courts. According...

Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” have signed a number of contracts with Egypt worth tens of billions of dollars, the company’s chief announced yesterday. Alexey Likhachev said that...

Hamas announced on Tuesday that a senior delegation has arrived in Cairo for discussions with Egyptian officials. The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement issued a statement in which it named...

Egypt’s top religious institution, Al-Azhar, yesterday denied reports that there were plans to integrate its educational curriculums with the country’s national education system. The announcement came in a statement...

Talks about the River Nile between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia held in Khartoum on 5 April were deadlocked. The discussions revolved around Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam....

The highest court in Egypt has accepted an appeal by 299 defendants who had their names placed on the country’s terror list. The suspects were accused of the 2015...

The Egyptian government yesterday approved the legalisation of 166 churches and an unlicensed church service building in several provinces around the country, the Anadolu Agency has reported. “The legal statuses of...

The Egyptian Minister of Education, Tarek Shawki, yesterday announced the approval of a $500 million loan from the World Bank to support education development in the country. The loan...

Speaking at the Arab Summit, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, mistakenly called ballistic missiles, plastic missiles. It would have been more accurate to call the...

An Arab League summit yesterday called for an international probe into the “criminal” use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned what it saw as Iran’s interference in the...

Egypt’s parliament this weekend approved to extend the state of emergency for an additional three months. This is the fourth time that Egyptian authorities have extended the state of emergency...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today called for the ending of “the Palestinian division” and for “an immediate” international investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria....

Qatar will not be represented by a senior official at an Arab summit taking place in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in a sign that a nearly year-old dispute between...

An Egyptian court upheld on Saturday a life sentence against Mohamed Badie, the leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, over 2013 violence, judicial sources said. The court of cassation,...