Eight Egyptian soldiers and 14 militants were killed in fighting in central Sinai on Saturday when gunmen carrying explosive belts and grenades targeted a military checkpoint, the army said....

Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from April 14, the official gazette said early on Saturday. Egypt first imposed the current state of...

Egypt temporarily opened Rafah crossing point on the borders with the Gaza Strip in both directions for three days.

Egypt’s military prosecution yesterday referred the former head of the country’s Central Auditing Organization (HAC), Hisham Geneina, to a military court accusing him of “spreading news that harms the armed...

On Thursday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry refused to be held responsible for the failure of the latest round of negotiations over the Renaissance Dam in Khartoum. The Egyptian Foreign...

Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA...

Ethiopia has blamed Egypt for the failure of recent Khartoum-hosted talks between the water ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia. Last week, negotiations over Ethiopia’s ambitious Grand Renaissance Dam...

Egyptian prosecutors have referred suspects accused of “selling” children online to the criminal court, the state-run National Council for Childhood and Motherhood said yesterday. According to state TV, the...

Russia and Egypt have resumed direct flights after a more than two-year hiatus, officials said Thursday. Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship carrier, landed in Cairo Wednesday with 120 passengers on board, according to...

In a telephone call this month with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Donald Trump demanded that the kingdom and its Arab partners quickly end a nearly year-old dispute with...

The Egyptian Embassy in Cairo has announced that the Rafah crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and the North African nation will be opened in both directions for three...

US President Donald Trump yesterday reversed his criticism of Qatar for funding terrorism, claiming that Doha was unfairly maligned by Gulf States, US News reported. “You’ve now become a...

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army, has suffered a stroke and is in Jordan for treatment, local TV stations have reported. Libya’s Al-Ahrar TV...

An Egyptian military court referred the cases of 36 defendants to the country’s top religious authority for approval of death sentences after they were found guilty of bomb three...

Qatar is making fast progress in preparation of hosting the 2022 World Cup, the Qatari Finance Minister, Ali Sherif Al-Emadi, announced yesterday. Speaking to Reuters, Al-Emadi said that 90 per...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said his country’s forces will continue their role within the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen to support efforts to restore stability to the country....

The Egyptian army yesterday announced the launch of joint maritime exercises with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Egypt’s eastern Red Sea territorial waters. The training comes as part...

Egypt plans to cut fuel subsidies by a quarter and nearly halve those for electricity in the financial year starting in July, but will raise food subsidies slightly, a...

One hundred years after the disastrous Balfour Declaration, in which the British government lent its support to the campaign for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine,...

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov yesterday met with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip amidst international mediations to end the Great March of...

The chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Pier Antonio Panzeri, said on Saturday that he intends to discuss at Parliament the repercussions of the blockade...

Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to establish a canal though Salwa, on its land border with Doha, and the conversion of the island into a military base. On...

An Egyptian drugs rehabilitation hotline has seen a fourfold rise in calls after the release of a campaign featuring Liverpool footballer Mohamed Salah, according to Egypt Today. The “Say...

Egypt is benefiting from the “enormous” capabilities of the Israeli national intelligence agency (Mossad) in the fields of eavesdropping, tracking, monitoring, the former Mossad official, David Meidan, has revealed....

An Egyptian criminal court yesterday upheld a previous ruling that the 2012 election of Mohamed Morsi was fair, Egyptian news website Ahram Gate reported. Former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq...

An Egyptian court ruled on Saturday that a judicial decision to suspend the licences of ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem should not be applied, allowing them to continue their...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has announced the failure of the talks held in Khartoum over the Ethiopian Dam, Al-Jazeera reported on Friday. The announcement came after 13 hours...

Egypt’s security forces announced yesterday that they have arrested three persons in the south of the country who are alleged to have formed a cell to target churches during...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet US President Donald Trump on April 10 in Washington, the state news agency QNA reported on late Thursday. Trump met...

The harrowing suicide game known as Blue Whale has claimed its latest victim after the son of former Egyptian MP Hamdy El-Fakharany, was found dead in his family home...

Doha has received an official invitation to the Arab League summit in Riyadh later this month, despite the ongoing boycott, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lulwa Al-Khater confirmed yesterday, according...

Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has claimed that the island state will not look to mitigate the blockade of Qatar, Gulf News reported yesterday. “With what we see from...