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Egypt's Minister of Civil Aviation has said that Israeli passenger aircraft armed with offensive missiles will not be allowed to land at Cairo or other airports in the country....

The Muslim Brotherhood will protect the movement's offices across Egypt using its own members during the June 30 demonstrations by political opponents. Gamal Heshmat of the Freedom and Justice...

More than 30 revolutionary, youth, political and Islamist parties are holding a mass rally today, Friday, under the banner of "No to violence". The event is being held at...

Egypt and Ethiopia have reached an agreement to halt their propaganda campaign and to dedicate themselves to political discussions toward resolving the crisis of the Renaissance Dam. Egyptian Foreign...

President Mohammed Morsi has discussed a number of Egyptian initiatives to solve the Syrian crisis with a delegation of senior Muslim scholars who were in Cairo to take part...

The spokesman of the Egyptian Army, Staff Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali, on Wednesday denied that his country had bought military wares from Israel. An Israeli newspaper reported early this...

President Mohammed Morsi said on Monday that the Nile water dispute is at the top of his priority list. The Egyptian leader was speaking at a conference organised to...

Shaikh Rashid Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's ruling Islamic Renaissance Movement, Al-Nahda, has said that trying to overthrow the elected government through violent means is unacceptable. The people, he...

The founder of the Egypt's al-Dostour party Mohamed al-Baradee has called for the "merging of former members of the old National Party, which ruled during the reign of Hosni...

Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party has said that harmony between the ruling party and the other political parties is essential to get through the transitional...

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly opened its debate on the draft constitution on Monday. The ruling Islamist Al-Nahda Party has been criticised by its opponents for the delay in drafting...

A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has said that the coup against Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi "has already started". Benjamin Ben-Eliezer added that he thinks "civil war...

Egypt's president is ready to sacrifice himself to defend his constitutional legitimacy. Mohammed Morsi told television viewers on Tuesday night that "respect for legitimacy is the sole guarantee to...

President Mohammed Morsi has called on opposition leaders to start a dialogue and let him know what their political aspirations and vision are. In a statement on Monday, the...

Three members of the Freedom and Justice Party have been killed in protests against President Mohammed Morsi. The FJP is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. One of...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the decision to build new housing units in an illegal settlement south of Occupied Jerusalem. Spokesman Badr Abdel Atti said that...

To mark his first anniversary as Egyptian president, on Wednesday evening Mohamed Morsi delivered a long speech to the Egyptian nation. The first message of Morsi's speech was directed...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has insisted that it had no knowledge of the spy network which has been broken in Cairo. In a brief statement published in Israeli newspaper...

A senior member of the Egyptian opposition campaign group behind the planned June 30 Demonstrations has rejected a call for dialogue. Mohamed Abdel Nasser of the campaign's central committee...

Deputy Chief of the Freedom and Justice party Esam El-Erian said on Thursday that Egyptians are worried about political division, media polarisation and an increasing crisis in living standards....

Statement by Tarek Ali, Sayed Fouda, Magdy Essam, Mohamed Salem The Muslim Brotherhood has issued a statement in which the movement makes it clear that it rejects what it...

The governor of the western province, Dr Ahmad Al Beely, has today resigned from his post in protest against the military coup. He has also announced his decision to...

The Egypt Doctors' Syndicate (EDS) has revealed hidden facts about the massacre committed against pro-Morsi protesters in front of the Republican Guard's Club at dawn last Monday when army...

Seven protesters were killed and about 100 were wounded in Al-Nahda Square on Monday night as undercover police attempted to disperse a demonstration in the area. Local sources said...

In response to General Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi's call for authorisation to wipe out "terrorism," the leader of the third field army, Brigadier Usama Askar, said that his brigade would not...

A delegation of senior African officials headed by former Mali president Alpha Oumar Konaré has met the ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the secret location where he is...

The former head of Israel's National Security Council, Giora Eiland, said on Wednesday that the events in Egypt and Syria bode well for the Zionist state. Major General Eiland...

Al-Azhar Scholars' Front has said that the legal president of Egypt is the freely-elected Mohamed Morsi. It called for Al-Azhar University and Mosque's Grand Shaikh Ahmed al-Tayyip, who offered...

Israeli newspapers have highlighted the state of chaos in Egypt after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi last week and noted that the situation is likely to remain this...

For the second time in two weeks the pipeline taking natural gas from Egypt to Jordan has been destroyed by unknown attackers to the east of El-Arish in North...

Al-Jazeera network has accused the Egyptian authorities of enforcing strict measures on their employees in Egypt and denied siding with Islamists in its coverage of the Egyptian crisis. Egyptian...

The military coup has resulted in a massive loss to the Egyptian economy estimated at about 120 billion Egyptian pounds (around £11.5 billion/ $17.1 billion), economic experts have calculated....