Former presidential candidate and head of Strong Egypt Party Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh faces charges of treason and requests to bring him before the Egyptian Military Justice. On Saturday,...

The Higher Committee for the Prison Uprising in Egypt has announced that, so far, prisoners being held at 76 different detention facilities across the country have confirmed that they...

An international human rights watchdog on Monday warned that a recent decree by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to expand the powers of the country’s military courts risks “militarising” the...

As soon as the Tunisian elections results were announced with Nidaa Tounes overtaking Ennahdha party, celebrations of the “Islamists'” defeat at the hands of the “secularists” got underway across...

Responding to our story CitiBank to close all branches in Egypt from November 4th, CEO of Citi Egypt Nadir Shaikh has sent the following statement. It has been printed...

US citizen Mohamed Soltan has been in an Egyptian jail for over a year, and on hunger strike for nearly all of that time. He has smuggled a letter...

The head of Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia) movement, Beji Caid el Sebsi, said on Saturday that his movement would not rule Tunisia alone, even if it had won...

Hundreds of Libyans protested in the capital Tripoli and other Libyan cities on Friday evening against the illegitimate parliament and in support of the ruling of the Supreme Court,...

Morocco is being lauded today as a bastion of stability in a troubled time and region; while the future is unforeseeable, there are certainly specific factors that have helped...

An international legal delegation to Egypt has slammed the government’s repression of its political opponents as characteristic of a “police state”, at the launch of a new report in...

I was surprised last Friday by Palestinian Authority media outlets in Ramallah reporting the 15 bombings near the Fatah headquarters in Gaza and the platform established to mark the...

Egypt received S-300 long-range missile defence systems from Moscow this year, Voice of Russia website revealed yesterday. The website quoted Vyacheslav Dzirkalen, the deputy general manager of the Russian...

Two Egyptian courts convicted dozens of anti-coup Egyptians on Wednesday, including nine minors, handing out sentences that range anywhere between one and 25 years. A judicial source, speaking to...

Egyptian coup leader and President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi issued a law on Wednesday that gives him the power to deport foreign prisoners back to their countries of origin on the...

The Libyan government refused to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations,...

Tunisia’s Ennahda has called for demonstrations on Friday in protest against the Israeli attacks on Palestinians. In to a statement issued yesterday and signed by the party’s leader Rached...

Dr Tarek Mahmoud El-Ghandour, Professor of Dermatology in Ain Shams University, died after suffering internal bleeding in Abu Zaabal prison, Egypt. El-Ghandour bled for six hours from his oesophagus,...

Hundreds of residents in the Gaza city of Rafah, near the Palestinian-Egyptian border, have been complaining of the continuous sounds of penetrating explosions on the Egyptian side, Pls48.net news...

Media personality Moataz Matar has revealed the publication of a famous Greek site which reports on the gains obtained by Greece as a result of the tripartite agreement between...

A number of Salafist groups in Egypt have called for taking to the streets in demonstrations on 28 November in what they are calling the “Islamic Revolution” or “Islamic...

Egyptian universities have recently witnessed a wave of student demonstrations as part of a programme of anti-coup activities called “breaking the siege” aiming to confront the security oppression carried...

Since the start of the new academic year, Egyptian authorities have tried to marginalise scores of public schoolteachers affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood group. Education Ministry spokesman Hani Kamal...

Egyptian security services raided the female branch of Al-Azhar University for the twelfth time since the start of the academic year and beat and arrested several students, spokesperson of...

A senior Israeli security official arrived in Cairo yesterday on board of a special Israeli plane from Tel Aviv, Palestinian news agency Quds Net reported. The Israeli official was...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has established an inquiry committee to investigate “certain incidents” that took place during Israel’s latest war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Farhan Haq,...

The Polisario Front yesterday threatened to “return to the armed struggle” against Morocco, in reaction to the Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s statement that the Western Sahara will remain under...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a thank you letter to Egyptian TV presenter Tawfiq Okasha expressing his deep thanks to him for defending the city of Jerusalem and...

The European Union has not prohibited the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood because there is no proof that they are involved in acts of violence, the EU Ambassador to...

The United Nation’s support mission in Libya announced yesterday that it will evacuate the city of Cyrene in the eastern part of the country following a car explosion, according...

An Egyptian non-governmental human rights observatory said that seven supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi received death sentences in October, while 173 others were sentenced to a total of...

There is no doubt that the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling to dissolve the Tobruk parliament cobbled together by Haftar and Sisi, and cancelling its associated government, as well as...

The UN Human Rights Council issued on Friday a report with 300 recommendations for the Egyptian authorities to improve the human rights situation in the country, it has been...