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A return to the borders of January 25 is not possible, even if the army reinstates Mubarak as president. The revolution, as was evident this Saturday, is besieging the...

As we stand on the verge of the National Constituent Assembly's vote on the constitution, which is expected to get the required two-thirds majority to pass its first reading,...

Egyptian military officials have been making more threats against the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip. Speaking to different journalists, they say they will embark on a new campaign...

The Muslim Brotherhood has survived three major crackdowns in its 80 year history with its reformist agenda in tact. One under the monarchy in 1949, and two under Nasser...

A resolution to the crisis in Egypt doesn't look as if it is on the agenda as we enter the revolution's fourth year. This should not surprise us, as...

Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Affairs High Representative, remains the only foreign official to have met with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his detention. Shortly after the coup...

The Muslim Brotherhood has denied reports they have formed a military wing. In statements to the Anadolu news agency, senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Mohamed Ali Beshr...

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that Western countries will not intervene to combat terrorism in the south of Libya as demanded by Niger. Fabius told Radio...

Islamist politician and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh accused on Sunday the military backed authorities of establishing a "republic of fear" in Egypt, saying that "there is no...

Unprecedented human rights violations are being committed in Egypt, a human rights group said on Sunday. Speaking to Al-Jazeera Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said the Egyptian...

Hossam Moanis, spokesperson of the Popular Current, directed a message to Mahmoud Badr, one of the founders of the Egyptian Tamarod, after the latter accused the members of the...

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that the new constitution in Tunisia "proves" the harmony between Islam and democracy. Speaking at a ceremony for the adoption of the...

Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his concerns on Friday about the detention of journalists and increasing restrictions on the mass media in Egypt. The British minister called upon the...

Egypt's Women against the Coup movement has revealed that the authorities arrested 200 women in December and January and accused the interior ministry of torture and sexual abuse. "We...

The alliance supporting the elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi considered the verdict issued on Thursday against a 15-year old student, sentencing her to one year in prison, as "an...

Representatives from Israel's Leviathan Gas Company met with members of the British Gas Group in Cyprus last week to discuss exporting gas to Egypt, Israel's Calcalist business newspaper said....

Rabat and Tehran decided on Wednesday to resume diplomatic relations, which had been severed since March 2009. The Moroccan press linked the decision to Iran's improving relations with Western...

Deposed President Mohammed Morsi is innocent and deserves better treatment, the ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is said to have said. Following his visit to see Mubarak, actor Talaat...

Tunisia's Ennahda Party Leader Rashid Ghannouchi met with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Following their meeting Ghannouchi told the Anadolu news agency the two leaders discussed...

Egypt's Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced his intention to run for president of Egypt via Kuwait's Al-Seyassah newspaper on Thursday. Al-Sisi told the newspaper that: "I...

The US administration has expressed "deep concern" about freedom of expression in Egypt and the interim government's detention of journalists and academics. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told...

The Egyptian government estimates that the energy crisis in Egypt is likely to worsen in the next fiscal year, as gas production fails to meet the growing domestic demand....

The Libyan government announced on Tuesday that its chemical arsenal, which it had inherited from the Qaddafi regime, has been completely destroyed. The Libyan foreign ministry issued a statement...

Government estimates forecast Egypt's energy crisis will worsen in the next fiscal year with the failure of gas production to accommodate the growing domestic demand, Reuters news agency reported...

Israel's Defence Minister said on Sunday that Egypt's coup last year has alleviated the fears of Israel and several other countries about what he described as an "Islamist winter"....

Egypt's Board of State Commissioners has refused the Libyan authorities demand to extradite former coordinator of Libyan-Egyptian relations Ahmad Qaddafi Al-Dam, a cousin of ousted Libyan Colonel Muammar Al-Qaddafi....

A massive media campaign has started in Egypt against Britain's Guardian newspaper. Egyptian pro-coup media and even British-Egyptians have labelled the left-of-centre Guardian as "affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood",...

Egyptian judge Hossam El-Gheriany has defended the stances adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood before the 3 July coup, pointing out that although the Brotherhood and other political forces made...

Below is the text from Dr Maha Azzam's Open letter to the Guardian. Sir, Mr Blair's recent comments in support of the military coup in Egypt are both misinformed...

The former deputy leader of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, Shaikh Ali Binhaj, has accused the authorities of denying him the opportunity to stand as a candidate for the presidential...

What happened in Egypt on July 30 was not a coup, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria said. Speaking to a delegation from Britain's House of...

DEBKAfile, an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, has argued in a report that Israel will pay a heavy price for its continued security coordination with Egypt's Minister...