Egypt and Ethiopia vowed on Sunday to tackle their differences over a dam Addis Ababa is building on the Nile River that Cairo fears threatens its water supplies. Ethiopia...

Demands for the Quran to be altered in order to omit some verses are “one of the causes of terrorism”, the Grand Mufti of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, Ahmed El-Tayeb, warned...

Egypt will announce new electricity prices on Tuesday, state news agency MENA reported on Monday, as part of subsidy cuts tied to the country’s $12 billion IMF loan programme. The...

Egypt’s chief prosecutor has referred 28 people to the criminal court on charges of forming an illegal group seeking to overthrow the government of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Prosecutor...

Social media users, blogs and personal website which have more than 5,000 followers will be governed in the same way media outlets are in Egypt, if a new draft...

The health of former Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh is deteriorating in prison, with a slipped disc leaving him in pain and preventing him from walking unassisted,...

The streets in downtown Cairo were completely shut down and the people were banned from running their errands and attending to their businesses. Cars were also prevented from accessing...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is confident he will be fit enough to take part in Egypt’s World Cup opener against Uruguay in Yekaterinburg next Friday, Spanish newspaper Marca reported...

Egypt’s exports increased by 16 per cent in the first four months of this year, reaching $8.644 billion, the country’s Ministry for Trade and Industry announced earlier this week....

The Egyptian government has punished a number of journalists at the daily newspaper Al-Ahram after a typo led to an article which badly insulted Entissar Al-Sisi, the wife of...

The Qatari Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has denied claims that Doha is not allowing its citizens and residents from performing the Islamic rituals of Umrah and Hajj...

Foreign investment in Algeria fell $1.2 billion in 2017, a drop of 26 per cent compared to 2016, according the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). A World...

Egypt says it has repatriated nine illegally smuggled artifacts, including statuary and coffins, from France. Thursday’s statement by the Foreign Ministry says French authorities had seized the artifacts at...

The blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has torn the social fabric in the Gulf Arab states, hurt families and individuals and cast a dark...

We did not take the analyses and predictions that mourned the early death of the Arab Spring wave with its successive revolutions and uprisings that broke out in Tunisia...

A fourth Moroccan military plane landed in Cairo on Tuesday loaded with humanitarian aid for Gaza, official Moroccan sources confirmed The aid will be transported to the Gaza Strip...

Egypt’s cabinet submitted its resignation to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday, only two days after Al-Sisi was officially sworn in as the head of state for a second term...

The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, warned of the worsening economic conditions witnessed in the country and said that Jordan is now “at a crossroads” and it will either...

The “Miles of Smiles 34” aid convoy arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Teeming with medical and humanitarian aid, the convoy traversed...

Egyptian authorities yesterday closed the Rafah crossing in both directions because of technical problems. According to the crossing’s administration, Rafah was closed in both directions as a result of...

Fifty-one years has passed since the shameful defeat of the Arabs in the 5 June 1967 war, which resulted in Israel’s occupation of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West...

Egypt’s cotton exports have risen 50.6 per cent during the second quarter of the agriculture season for the year 2017-18, according to a report by the government-run Central Agency...

The Egyptian Parliament has accepted a government proposal to increase the basic salaries and pensions of state employees as of 1 July, Chairman of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) Gebali Al-Maraghi said....

Egypt is planning to increase tax revenues by 131 per cent in four years, state-owned MENA reported yesterday. Speaking to the parliament, finance minister, Amr Al-Garhy said the government aims to increase tax revenues...

The US State Department has published a new set of secret documents that reveal Saudi support for Israel after the October War and the Kingdom’s pivotal role in completing...

Egypt’s top court has denied the country’s social solidarity minister the authority to dismiss NGO boards, stating that the move would be unconstitutional, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm....

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have been leading a political and economic blockade against the state of Qatar since 5 June 2017, which has led to the...

Surveillance footage handed over to Rome by Egyptian authorities for an investigation into the torture murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo contains “overwritten and unclear material”. Egyptian judicial...

Documents released by the US State Department have revealed secret Saudi backing for the Camp David negotiations between Egypt and Israel, contrary to the kingdom’s very public condemnation for the controversial 1979 peace accords....

An Egyptian prosecutor ordered the detention of a Lebanese woman who posted a video on her Facebook page describing an incident of sexual harassment in Egypt, charging her with...

Like his war on Yemen, heir apparent to the Saudi throne Mohammed Bin Salman no doubt felt confident that adding another belligerent policy to his name – an act...

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in at the Egyptian parliament for a second term on Saturday after winning an election by a landslide in March. A 63-year-old former intelligence...