Member of Fatah’s Central Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad said yesterday that the potential truce agreement between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza is “treason”, local media reported. “The truce agreement...

Egyptian 'Devavin' band perform at the ruins of a cultural center that was destroyed by Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City, Gaza

Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of easing tensions as neighbouring Egypt pursued a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the...

Mahmoud Mehanna, a member of the Higher Committee of Scholars of Al-Azhar, warned Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi against approving the law of equal inheritance between men and women....

It remains difficult to understand that the Hamas resistance seems satisfied and responsive to the so-called Egyptian role in the proposed scenarios for a settlement in Gaza. The issue...

The USA will continue to work for a ceasefire in Gaza “with or without” the cooperation of the Palestinian Authority (PA), a spokesperson for the National Security Council has...

Israeli Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said yesterday that connecting the Gaza Strip with the West Bank is a “direct threat to Israel’s security”, Arab48reported. “Any attempt to...

Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza travelled to Cairo to join the national dialogue discussions for the first time since 2012, Shehabreported yesterday. Representatives from Al-Ahrar Movement, the Popular Resistance...

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

The Egyptian Interior Ministry yesterday announced that 13 people affiliated with the bannedMuslim Brotherhood were arrested for inciting “demonstrations and chaos”. The ministry said in a statement that six...

At the height of its strength in Libya, Daesh controlled the coastal city of Sirte, about 500 kilometres east of Tripoli, having amassed a sizeable force thanks to hundreds...

The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein of Al Jazeera has spent 600 days in prison in Egypt with no official charges or conviction, surpassing the permitted maximum length of pretrial detention...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday voiced his determination not to allow Yemen to become a platform for non-Arab forces that threaten the security and stability of the Arab...

Britain is one of the most “strict” countries in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood, the British Ambassador to Egypt has revealed. John Casson made his comment during a “Question...

The Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda massacres still linger in my mind, and my heart refuses to let them go. The five years that have passed were unable to fold...

Israel’s finance minister today confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip....

Rabaa represents the failed hope of Egyptian democracy and it set a precedent for the despicable brutality of a regime towards its own citizens.

August 14 marks the fifth anniversary of the massacre at Cairo’s Rabaa and Nahda Squares, in which Egyptian security forces killed at least 800 supporters of deposed Islamist president...

An Egyptian criminal court dropped a lawsuit in which Ahmed Ezz, a business tycoon who was associated with ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was accused of money laundering and corruption....

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie to life along with a number of the group’s leading members on a charge...

The deputy head of the Political Department in Hamas, Essam Al-Dalis, said that Egypt submitted a new draft to Hamas on its vision of reconciliation which is different from...

Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday. A militant wearing a suicide vest was prevented...

Egypt’s public prosecutor has detained a disgraced monk on charges of killing a bishop at a desert monastery, his lawyer said on Saturday, in a case that has rocked...

Egypt will obtain a license to build the Dabaa nuclear plant by mid-2020, the Russian deputy minister of industry and trade said Georgy Kalamanov added that Russian experts are currently...

Two days after a controversial initiative was launched in Egypt by Ambassador Masoum Marzouk, an Egyptian research centre launched, Thursday, a new political initiative to resolve the Egyptian crisis....

Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed on a truce on Thursday, two Palestinian officials said, an understanding that would end an escalation in...

An Egyptian military court has adjourned until 15 August a trial held for 292 defendants who are accused of taking part in an attempt to assassinate President Abdel Fattah...

A farmer from the Egyptian village of Kafr Al-Dawwar has murdered a worker for allegedly having an illegal relationship with his daughter and raping her. According to local sources,...

Egypt goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary, who became the oldest player in World Cup history in Russia, has announced his retirement from international soccer aged 45. El-Hadary earned the last of his...

Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said that the movement’s delegation, which arrived in Gaza last week, returned to Cairo with full information about all  the issues surrounding...

In the course of just four months, we have been flooded with initiatives to resolve the political crisis in Egypt, with seven reconciliation proposals on the horizon. However, they...