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The arbitrary detention of Muslim Brotherhood members signals the return of a police state, a movement spokesman has said. "That is why the Brotherhood cannot accept the coup against...

A senior official of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has claimed that the armed forces are actually against the military coup which deposed President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday. Speaking...

The Yemeni activist and Nobel peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that accusations of "spying" against President Mohamed Morsi are a "farce". She pointed out that establishing international contacts...

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the UAE has made a brief visit to Cairo. General Hamad Mohamed Al-Ramthi arrived in the Egyptian capital on Thursday...

Prominent writer and journalist Wael Qandil said on Saturday that Egypt is living through a period of time that could be called "the stage of eliminating the effects of...

Dr Abdullah Al-Ashaal, a law professor at the American University, said that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's call for Egyptians to demonstrate could lead Egypt into a cycle of violence and...

The Egyptian army and opposition groups have "misjudged" the power of the Muslim Brotherhood, a leading journalist has claimed. The editor of the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, Abdul-Bari Atwan,...

A leading member of the Popular Current political party has revealed that its representative in the National Salvation Front will be Dr Azzazi Ali Azzazi, who will replace Hamdeen...

Egyptian and international human rights and cultural bodies have expressed their concerns about the focus of certain media to broadcast or publish material that spreads hatred and incites or...

The deputy chief of Hamas' political bureau, Musa abu-Marzouq, has said that there is no crisis between his movement and Egypt and denied that he had been asked to...

The number of pro-Morsi protesters in Al-Nahda Square has been increasing since the horrific news of the massacre near Rabaa Al-Adawiyya Square. Protesters say that this is a response...

Video Egyptian police opened fire towards anti-coup protesters on Friday while they were praying in front of the El-Arish Governorate building in north Sinai. The shooting was apparently intended...

A Coptic intellectual has described the Egyptian army's removal of President Morsi as a coup d'état and predicted that a counter-coup has to be expected. This, said Rafik Habib,...

In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful. "And hold fast, all together, by the rope of Allah and be not divided." (Qur'an 3:104) I address...

The head of the Renaissance Party in Tunisia's governing coalition, Rachid Al-Ghanouchi, considers what is happening in Egypt including the dismissal of the former President Mohammad Morsi a "democratic...

Egypt's former justice minister, Counsellor Ahmed Mekky, has claimed that handing over power to Mohammed Morsi in January 2012 was "just for show" and that there was a "premeditated...

The information advisor of the Freedom and Justice Party has issued a list of six goals for the protests against this week's military coup in Egypt. Writing on his...

Sudanese academic and prominent Islamist Professor Al-Tayeb Zain al-Abdin has said that Egyptian nationalists met the American government's goals when they removed the Muslim Brotherhood from government in Egypt....

A senior official of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party said on Sunday that they are not resisting the interim government in order to free the kidnapped president, but "to...

Cairo, July 24, 2013) As the Egyptian people were waiting for the coup leaders to regret the crimes they committed against the nation and its people (confiscating popular will...

A senior official of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhadj, has called on the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders to "learn from the Algerian experience and prevent it from...

Veteran Egyptian legal expert Tariq al-Bishri has expressed his opinion that the army carried out a military coup against an elected president and a constitution adopted by the nation,...

The Egyptian health ministry has revealed that 30 people were killed in the country's anti-coup demonstrations on Friday. Four hundred and sixty protesters needed hospital treatment. As protesters approached...

The Ruling coalition in Tunis said on Thursday that it is ready to play the role of mediator to lessen the tensions that have erupted in Egypt in the...

Nobel Prize laureate Tawakul Karaman has criticised the military coup on Egypt. The Yemeni political analyst said that she expects the coup to lead to the return to the...

Head of Ghad Al-Thawra party, Ayman Nour, has called on General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to "withdraw his call for protests on Friday or take off his military uniform and...

Amnesty International has criticised the decision by the military appointed government in Egypt to forcibly disperse pro-Morsi sit-ins from Rabaa Al-Adawiyya, Al-Nahda and other Egyptians squares. The organisation, warned...

This morning the Egyptian authorities closed Al Quds and Yarmuk TV stations on Nile Sat as they begun direct coverage of today's rally in Rabi'ah Adawiya Square in Cairo....

A key aide of Egypt's President Morsi has revealed the three key decisions which appear to have been behind the timing of the military coup this week. They would...

A report from the Egyptian Centre for Media Studies and Public Opinion has revealed that most people in Egypt are opposed to the removal of President Mohammed Morsi from...

A pre-dawn attack on Wednesday against a pro-Morsi rally left two killed and many injured. Medical sources in Rabaa Al-Adawiyya field clinic described the injuries as serious to moderate....

Libya's Mufti Sheikh Al-Sadeq al-Gharyani has called what happened in Egypt a "coup on legitimacy" as a president, who was chosen through elections monitored and respected by international parties,...