US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will not involve giving land from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to the Palestinians, an American envoy said on Friday, Reuters reports. Jason...

Barely a week before Zimbabwe’s military ousted President Robert Mugabe in November 2017, its top commander visited Beijing. Exactly what he discussed with his People’s Liberation Army counterparts has...

The Egyptian and Somali foreign ministers met in Cairo on Thursday to discuss recent political developments in Sudan and Red Sea security, Anadolu reports. According to an Egyptian Foreign...

Egyptian expatriates on Friday started voting in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes that would extend incumbent president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s term until 2030, Anadolu reports. The voting process...

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled an unusually large tomb on Luxor’s west bank dated to ancient Egypt’s 18th dynasty, Reuters reports. The 3,500-year-old, 450-square-metre (540-square-yard) tomb contains 18 entrance gates...

Mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people’s suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops...

Egypt has stepped up security across the country in advance of a Saturday referendum on proposed constitutional changes that would, if approved, allow President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to remain in...

Egypt has seen a recent growth in the so-called “used food” markets, as citizens bear the brunt of President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s economic reform programme, Arabi21 has reported. Markets...

The number of reported car accidents in Egypt fell by nearly a quarter last year, according to new figures from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS)....

An Egyptian politician who is known for having supported the bloody coup which ousted the country’s first freely elected president in 2012, has expressed his opposition to the constitutional...

The security services of the Matrouh province, in the northwest of Egypt, have foiled an attempt by 309 Egyptians to cross the country’s western border into Libya, the state-run...

Germany raised concern over recent constitutional changes in Egypt that would allow President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to remain in power until 2030, Anadolu reports. “It is feared that in the...

In light of reports that the US will ask Egypt to concede part of Sinai to create a Palestinian state, Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh stressed yesterday that no part...

Head of Fatah delegation to reconciliation talks Azzam Al-Ahmad arrived in Egypt yesterday and sent a message to Hamas indicating that this is the “last chance” for talks, Al-Watan...

Egypt will cut fuel subsidies by 40.5 per cent and electricity by 75 per cent in the financial year 2019-2020, the country’s finance ministry announced yesterday. “Subsidies on petroleum...

Egyptian authorities have blocked 34,000 websites ahead of a planned vote on constitutional amendments which would allow President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until 2030, NetBlocks, a...

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a travel warning advising its citizens not to visit Egypt’s Sinai during the Passover holiday, local media reported yesterday. The ministry’s Counter-Terrorism...

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani called for the effective disarming of Khalifa Haftar, leader of Libyan National Army, and the withdrawal of his troops...

The head of Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) has fired the country’s three highest-ranking public prosecutors, the council said on Tuesday, after protesters demanded an overhaul of the...

The 596-member parliament is dominated by Sisi supporters

Egyptian authorities have released Muna Mahmoud Ibrahim, known as Umm Zubeida, after detaining her for one year, rights activists said yesterday. According to the New Khaleej, Umm Zubeida was...

They wanted to abort the revolution that they could not kill, in spite of the killings and arrests. Just as the Egyptian defence minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawy, removed...

The Arab League envoy to Libya Salah Eddine Jamali has condemned foreign nations’ interference in Libya, which he says are escalating violence in the divided country. “There have been...

Egypt’s parliament will vote on Tuesday on constitutional amendments including an extension to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s current four-year-term, its speaker, Ali Abdelaal, said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Proposed constitutional...

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met, on Sunday, Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army, in Cairo, while the number of victims of the battles on the Libyan capital...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Cairo on Sunday to discuss developments in Libya, Sisi’s spokesman said. Reuters reported that no other details about...

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp described alleged racist abuse directed at striker Mohamed Salah by some Chelsea fans as “disgusting” and called for those responsible to be banned from all...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has suspended one of its teachers who forced his students to take off their trousers in order to pass their exams. The Dean of Al-Azhar’s Education...

Egypt yesterday said it was “fully” supporting the choices of the Sudanese people in determining their country’s future following the overthrow of former President Omar Al-Bashir. In an official...

Deputy head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Saleh Al-Arouri, yesterday denied holding secret talks or negotiations with Israel either directly or indirectly. Speaking to a number of Hamas...

US President Donald Trump appears increasingly to be the official sponsor of authoritarian regimes, a view given even more credence when he welcomed Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi to...

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities yesterday denied reports that it had sold 17 Egyptian archaeological artefacts in an auction that was held at Christie’s auction house in the US. The general...