When the actions occur on the Palestinian arena, the other arenas take a back seat, albeit temporarily. As much as the Israelis and others try to push the Palestinian...

Egypt established a national council for combating terrorism today, giving it broad authority to set policies aimed at “fighting extremism”, a presidential decree stated. Egypt has been battling a...

The Egyptian government told the EU on Tuesday that the Arab states which have imposed a blockade on Qatar would not accept “half-solutions” for the ongoing diplomatic crisis, the...

Egyptian court on Tuesday jailed 43 people for life in connection with violence in 2011 following the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising. The court also slapped the defendants with a $1 million fine, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak to media. The court also sentenced nine minors to 10 years in prison each, one to five years and acquitted 92 others, the source said. The violence dates back to late 2011 when clashes between protesters and security forces left at least 18 people dead and scores injured.

Four Arab countries have added 18 more groups and individuals that they say are linked to Qatar to their “terrorist” lists, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday,...

Famous Egyptian lawyer and politician said in the first letter leaked from his cell at the infamous Scorpion Prison that while he is locked up, he pities his jailer,...

Egypt’s religious institution Al-Azhar has set up booths in Cairo’s Metro stations to provide religious advice to commuters. The move is the latest initiative to stop Egyptian Muslims from...

Al-Azhar University Dean, Mohamed Al-Mahrasawy, confirmed yesterday that 70 Uyghur students had been arrested and their residency papers were investigated. During a conference held the university Cairo, Al-Mahrasawy explained...

The army in Egypt has suddenly remembered Egypt’s first President, Mohammed Naguib; his army officers staged a coup against him, imprisoned and insulted him, and then erased from their...

Egypt is losing seven billion pounds a year ($391 million) as a result of thefts of tracks on its railway system, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported an official saying yesterday. Warning...

An Egyptian army tank ran over a car bomb in the Sinai Peninsula yesterday, an army spokesperson said adding that seven civilians, including two young children, were killed.

The Egyptian authorities have carried out 54 extrajudicial killings against suspects over the accusation that they belong to anti-coup movements. Most of the victims had already been subjected to...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have added nine entities and nine individuals to their individual ban lists because of alleged links to Qatar over terrorism,...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday his government would keep up a blockade of Qatar by four Arab states over charges it supports terrorism, in defiance of...

Seven Palestinians have been killed over the past 10 days and 1,090 have been injured at the hands of Israeli forces

On 5 July, right wing counter extremism think tank the Henry Jackson Society, released a report citing Saudi Arabia as the foremost promoter of Islamic extremism in the Muslim...