Egypt is believed to be working towards reactivating its mediation between the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and Israel for a new prisoner exchange deal, Al Quds Al Arabi...

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat, the Muslim Brotherhood's acting general guide, to life in prison, local media reported. State-owned Al-Ahram newspaper said the Second Terrorism Circuit court sentenced Ezzat...

Uganda announced on Wednesday the signing of an agreement with Egypt to exchange military information. This came in light of the escalating tension between Egypt and Ethiopia over the...

Egypt and Jordan welcomed a US decision to restart economic, development and humanitarian assistance for Palestinians which includes funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Anadolu Agency...

There has been a lot of anxiety due to the closure of the Suez Canal caused by the giant container ship MV Ever Given running aground and blocking the...

Egypt's foreign minister has said that Cairo is keen on the security and stability of Lebanon and the formation of a new government to resolve the state of political deadlock....

Amnesty International's MENA advocacy director has called on US President Joe Biden to denounce human rights in Egypt and demand change. "Tens of thousands of people have been swept...

The almost week-long blockage of the Suez Canal last month by a giant 250,000-ton container ship once again raised the issue of alternative routes for world shipping. The Netherlands-bound...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi declared on Wednesday, regarding the issue of the Renaissance Dam, that: "All options are possible if a drop of Egypt's share of Nile water...

Greece's embassy in Libya was reopened by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a visit to the North African country yesterday, aiming for a reset of relations soured by the...

Audio chatroom app Clubhouse is on the rise in the Arab world, providing a rare platform for open debate on taboo subjects from so-called honour killings in Egypt to...

Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said yesterday that the initial estimate of the losses resulting from Ever Given ship running aground amounted to $1 billion. State-owned Akhbar El-Yom newspaper...

The latest round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has led to no progress because Ethiopia refused a proposal which would have seen the formation of an...

The Egyptian government yesterday published the names of 51 more persons that have been added to its terror list. In March 2020, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi approved amendments to...

A shipment of 3.5 million barrels of oil sent by Iran is reportedly currently on its way to Syria to help with the fuel crisis in the country, following...

A state-owned Iraqi newspaper on Sunday proposed Al-Faw Grand Port as an alternative to the Suez Canal. Al-Sabah said Al-Faw, in the southern city of Basra, would allow ships that...

The Egyptian Army Chief of Staff Mohamed Farid met on Monday with his Sudanese counterpart Mohamed Othman Al-Hussein and discussed security issues that concern the two countries, the Egyptian...

Egyptian TV anchor Nashaat Eldeehy announced his participation with a group of young Egyptians in establishing the George Floyd Center for Human Rights to monitor and document human rights violations in...

The family of an outspoken Egyptian asylee living in Chicago has just appeared in court following more than two months of forcible disappearance. Aly Hussin Mahdy's father, uncle, and...

The Biden administration has upheld former Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi's immunity, which has drawn a wave of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and rights activists. "This attempt to insulate...

Ola is the daughter of prominent religious scholar Sheikh Youssef Al Qaradwi who has lived in exile since the 1960s after he was released from prison by President Nasser

The latest meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may be the last chance to re-launch talks before it is filled for the second...

All ships stranded by the container vessel stuck in the Suez Canal last week have now passed through, Egyptian authorities said on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported. "A total of 422 vessels...

Jordan's neighbours and allies reacted with statements of support after the Jordanian military said on Saturday that King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein had been...

Egypt is gearing up to hold a historic procession for the remains of 22 royal mummies through the streets of Cairo today, Anadolu Agency reports. The ancient mummies — 18...

On 29 March, the Egyptian authorities officially announced that the colossal Ever Given cargo ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal six days earlier had been refloated. However,...

Egypt's journey through Washington's lobbies during the decade of the Arab Spring

The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced on Friday that the Egyptian population had reached 101,674,434, RT reported. In February 2020, the Egyptian population reached 100...

Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie has announced that Egypt is studying the expansion of the canal to avoid further incidents similar to the grounding of...

Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Osama Rabie, announced that the amount of compensation Egypt will seek for the grounded cargo ship crisis may exceed $1 billion. The...

Ethiopia has begun to clear some 4,854 hectares of forests surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), in preparation for its second filling. The official Ethiopian News Agency (ENA)...

Egypt currently has a strategic stock of medical supplies and drugs that is sufficient for three years, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, announced yesterday. Madbouly pointed out that the authorities...