Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today expressed his country's willingness and readiness to provide support for holding Libyan general elections on its scheduled time, on December 24. In his...

The judicial authorities in Egypt yesterday lifted conditional release measures in place against Professor Hazem Hosny since February. The Cairo prosecutor reduced the measures imposed on the professor of...

An Islamic scholar turned freedom fighter, Omar Al-Mukhtar is best known for leading an armed revolution and guerrilla campaign against Italian colonisers for the last two decades of his...

Human rights advocates have raised concerns about the trial of Patrick Zaki in an emergency court, which started at the beginning of this week but has been adjourned until...

EgyptAir is scheduled to operate four direct flights from Cairo to Tel Aviv every week from the beginning of October. According to the Times of Israel, flights between the two...

A senior official of the Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday that the door is open for talks with the Egyptian regime without preconditions, Anadolu has reported. Yousef Nada was...

Egyptian authorities have arrested a doctor who asked a nurse to bow to his dog in a video that went viral. According to state-run media, Doctor Amr Khairy, head...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday met with the speaker of the Tobruk-based Libyan House of Representatives and putschist Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, Anadolu Agency reported. A statement by the...

Egypt today reopened to tourists the 4,700-year-old southern tomb of King Djoser at the pyramid of Saqqara after a 15-year renovation, reports Reuters. The tomb, south of Cairo, lies near the...

Police in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region have arrested a man at an airport as he tried to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt, they said today. Reuters reported that it was...

Egyptian human rights groups have denounced the administration of US President Joe Biden's decision to grant Egypt $170 million in military aid to the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi,...

There was a meeting between senior Egyptian and Turkish officials in Ankara last week to discuss the possibility of repairing mutual relations. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described the...

An official in the Biden administration has announced that the US is holding back some of the military aid it sends to Egypt over human rights concerns. Of the...

Turkey began normalisation talks with Egypt, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Omer Celik said in a press conference yesterday, the Anadolu Agency reports. Celik stressed that there...

The family of Alaa Abdelfattah has issued a statement to say that his life is in danger after two years of detention suggesting that the activist is suicidal. According...

A senior Likud Knesset member said on Monday that the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Al-Sinwar, clearly does not care about the threats made by Israeli Prime Minister...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday called for international support for Cairo's mediation efforts between Israel and Gaza. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Al-Sisi cited his country's...

A total of $20 billion was transferred out of Egypt within four to six weeks after the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Egyptian Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait, announced...

The two leaders discussed economic and security ties at a Red Sea resort in Sharm El-Sheikh where Sisi signalled his continued support for a two-state solution

Libyan authorities yesterday detained a suspect for "torturing irregular Egyptian immigrants and extorting their families to obtain money." The country's public prosecutor said in a statement that the perpetrators...

There is a "possibility" of Egypt resuming diplomatic relations with Turkey this year "if outstanding issues are overcome", the prime minister said yesterday Mostafa Madbouly told Bloomberg that there...

A bulk carrier briefly became stuck in the northern section of the Suez Canal today but was refloated and there was no impact on traffic, the Suez Canal Authority...

Another apartment building has collapsed in the city of Shoubra El-Khaima, just outside Cairo, killing three lawyers. AP reports that the Bar Association's branch in Qalyubia has said that the...

Turkey and Egypt on Wednesday ended a second round of exploratory consultations by agreeing to continue the talks. A joint statement by the Turkish and Egyptian foreign ministries on...

A committee representing Sudanese miners who returned from Egypt after five months of detention in 2015 said the Egyptian authorities have not handed over $8 million worth of their...

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance's decision to impose capital gains taxes on shares on the local stock market has increased losses, experts warned yesterday. The country's local stock market...

The trial of the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been postponed until November so that the court can "examine notes and documents." Bahgat was called...

Egypt's petroleum minister said today he hoped to export Egyptian gas as soon as possible to Jordan to generate power that will supply Lebanon, Reuters reports. The minister made his remarks...

A ten-year-old disabled Egyptian girl has been killed by her uncle and aunt in what they say was a sacrifice to the jinn. Gulf News reported Shaimaa suffered from brain...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an independent international mechanism to monitor and report on the human rights situation...

The cases of Egypt's former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, his son and 23 others have been referred to the Criminal Court following an order issued by the...

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has expressed his support for alternative trade routes to the Suez Canal in Egypt and the Silk Road used by China. "We need to...