The coup regime in Egypt is still promoting the same old merchandise it has been selling to the Egyptians and the world since the bloody coup began on July...

A group of Qatari activists launched their country’s almost first opposition group from the Egyptian capital Cairo. Called the “Youth Movement for the Rescue of Qatar”, the new group...

I usually make the distinction between the rule of law on the one hand and mob rule on the other. Similarly, I have also made a distinction between the...

Unknown gunmen killed four Egyptian soldiers in North Sinai on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported. According to a security source quoted by MENA, the gunmen were “unidentified...

Egyptian minister of planning Ashraf Al-Araby said on Saturday his country will raise the prices of electricity and fuel “as soon as possible” to address the budget deficit problem...

Egyptian police captured a detainee who tried to escape from a prison truck which was transporting him and other prisoners from court on Saturday, security sources told Anadolu news...

Debate has been renewed about “Islamic securities” following the decision by HM Treasury in London to issue “Sovereign Securities compliant with the Islamic principles in an unprecedented step outside...

The more that we view it, the humiliating display of Egypt’s president boarding that Saudi Arabian aircraft with solemnity and bowing to kiss the head of King Abdullah Ibn...

A disciplinary council on Saturday decided to send former prosecutor-general Talaat Ibrahim Abdullah, who served under Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi, into retirement. “Abdullah was sent into retirement after...

Dozens of anti-coup protests were held across Egypt on Friday to voice opposition to the continuation of the military coup and the repression that followed the July 3 ouster...

Egypt’s ex-army chief and newly inaugurated president Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said during his trip to Khartoum on Friday that “Sudan is part of Egypt,” triggering controversy on whether the remark...

An Egyptian court decided Friday to release the two sons of ousted president Hosni Mubarak pending further investigations on graft charges, the state-owned MENA reported. The Cairo Criminal Court,...

Western appeasement of Egypt’s former army chief is as reckless as it can get. European leaders should know from their own history that appeasement only whets the appetite of...

According to the official Middle East News Agency in Egypt, the army has donated one billion Egyptian pounds to a fund that was initiated by President Abel Fatah Al-Sisi...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised his country’s president, Abdullah Gul, in front of EU ambassadors in Turkey. The criticism came during a meeting between Erdogan and...

The meeting between Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was intended to prop-up rebel Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, it has been claimed by commentators....

An Egyptian government official has confirmed that the prices of petroleum products will be put up within two days by one Egyptian pound. The top price will be 2.75...

Algeria’s Alshuruq has launched a sharp attack on the visit to the country by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi. The focus of the newspaper’s ire is Algeria’s decision to...

Aid to Egypt should be withheld until it shows a commitment to human rights; Reuters quoted US lawmakers as saying on Tuesday. A statement by Senator Patrick Leahy expressed...

Some 24 activists will go on trial in Egypt charged with taking part in an illegal protest, campaigners said. The detained activists include Sanaa Seif, sister of leftist activist...

Despite Egypt’s closure of Al-Jazeera‘s offices in Cairo, arrest of its correspondents and demonising the channel in mainstream media, it seems that Al-Jazeera has been chasing General Abdel Fatah...

Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s foreign outreach started in Algeria because it is “his only gate into Africa”, an Algerian expert said. According to Algerian political scientist Tawfik Boukaida, Egypt seeks...

The Egyptian ministry of interior has accused the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating five hand-made explosions that went off in subway stations and outside a court in Cairo during Wednesday...

Egyptian security expert Dean Tariq Al-Gawhary accused the interior security forces of being behind yesterday’s bombings in Cairo saying they were orchestrated to distract people from the problems caused...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a presidential decree that gives him the power to assign heads of universities, presidential spokesman Ihab Badawi said. According to the decree, the...

At least six people were injured during this morning’s rush hour when four bombs exploded minutes apart in Cairo underground stations, local news reports said. The first three blasts...

The Egyptian Army destroyed two tunnels on the Egyptian-Gazan border, bringing the total number of tunnels ruined to 1,736. Security sources said that Egyptian border guards have continued their...

US Secretary of State John Kerry described on Monday the Egyptian Criminal Court’s decision to sentence three Al-Jazeera journalists to between seven to ten years in prison as “chilling...

Egyptian writer and novelist Alaa Al-Aswany announced yesterday that he has stopped writing for the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, citing a lack of freedom. Al-Aswany, who has been a...

Egypt rejected international criticism of the verdicts handed to three Al-Jazeera journalists yesterday. In a statement the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said it “strongly rejects any comment by a foreign...

The Supreme Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Dr Mohammed Badie said, during his trial yesterday, that the death sentence he received on Saturday does not scare him. Badie and...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday condemned the sentences handed down by an Egyptian court against three Al-Jazeera journalists and 15 others. During his visit to Iraq, Kerry...