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The head of Tunisian Constituent Assembly Mostafa bin-Jaafar announced the suspension of the writing of the new constitution for an unspecified time, a move he said was connected to...

Khairat al-Shater's daughter, Sara, has revealed that the Egyptian Public Prosecution has levelled new charges against the deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. On her Facebook page, Sara...

Former Ghananian President, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has decried the seeming unending crisis in Egypt and is urging an alliance of global voices to stop what he says...

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said on Monday that his movement has not been much affected by the political changes in Egypt. In fact, he claimed, Hamas has political...

The interim government in Egypt has opened investigations into 75 judges who refused to cooperate with the military coup and the removal of freely-elected President Mohammed Morsi. The presiding...

Rashid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has expressed its readiness for a popular referendum if protesters insist on demonstrating against the Islamist-led government. The move is an...

Egypt's tourism industry has suffered losses estimated at $720 million since the military coup last month. Speaking to Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan newspaper, the head of Egypt's Federation of Chambers...

The authorities in Cairo have detained 42 Syrians in Alexandria, including children and a pregnant woman, pending their deportation to Turkey. Following the military coup in Egypt, Turkey is...

Prominent leader of the Freedom and Justice Party Mohamed Al-Beltaji has poured scorn on the threats by the Egyptian interior ministry to break up anti-coup protests by force. The...

The Deputy Head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party said on Sunday that the Islamic movement is ready to accept any solution aimed at ending the transitional period in order to...

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood has accused the coup leaders of planning to turn Egypt into a "secular, military police state". However, said Dr Ahmed Aref, this will...

A recent field study indicates that the number of Egyptians opposed to the overthrow of Dr Mohammed Morsi as President has risen to 69 per cent. Only around 25...

A prominent leader of the Freedom and Justice party, Mohamed al-Beltaji, has called for all Egyptians to take to the streets in support of the martyrs and wounded. Al-Beltaji...

Mohamed Maher Aqel, an Al-Jazeera correspondent in Cairo, has said that ambulances transporting the martyrs and the injured have exploited the absence of organisation committees at the entrances and...

Egyptian security forces have launched an operation to disperse pro-Morsi sits in at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares in Cairo and Giza. Protesters have said that the security forces...

A senior Egyptian politician has condemned coup leaders for what he describes as the shameful allegations against ousted President Mohammed Morsi. "It is illogical to accuse the president of...

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in al-Siwees governorate protesting against the massacres in Rabaa al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares. The protesters closed the streets leading to...

Prominent Freedom and Justice Leader Mohamed Al-Beltaji has said that what happened in 9 hours today in Cairo was not carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza...

Egyptian security forces have arrested dozens of journalists and media professionals, both Egyptian and foreign, whilst they have been covering the crimes being committed by the military rulers against...

Al-Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Zaki, who has been wounded in his left arm, has spoken of the Egyptian Army and Interior Ministry police firing live bullets at protesters and media...

The Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance in Egypt has called on Egyptians to take to the streets in order to halt the aggressive attacks against protesters being carried out by the...

Muslim thinker and member of the Islamic Research Council, Mohamed Omarah, has said that the ruling regime reached breaking point when it started forcibly dispersing the peaceful pro-Morsi protests...

Dr Salim al-Awa has said that official responses to initiatives offered to solve problems with pro-Morsi demonstrators were only demands to disperse the protests. Al-Awa said that one of...

Dozens of people are now being held at the Faculty of Engineering in Cairo without aid, as the Egyptian police and military forces prevent ambulances from attending to them....

A large number of police and state security personnel have been stationed in front of the Giza metro station to warn employees against entering Nahda square, in order to...

The field clinic in Rabaa Al-Adawiya has just revealed that electricity has been completely cut off from the clinic. A clinic spokesman said that tear gas was filling the...

A spokesman for the Salafist Front has claimed that at least 65 children are among those killed by Egyptian security forces in Cairo today. Hisham Kamal said that the...

A number of senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their family members have been wounded and killed by Egyptian security forces today in Cairo. Eyewitnesses said that Habeebah...

Egypt's interim Interior Minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, has denied that Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested during the bloody crackdown on the pro-Morsi protests in Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda Squares. He...

The 'Journalists for Reform' movement has condemned the killing of journalists and cameramen during the crackdown on the pro-Morsi protests in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda Squares, where a large...

A leading constitutional expert has condemned the Egyptian coup leaders for having no respect for the blood of the people and turning against the democratic process. Tariq Al-Beshry said...

Speaking to 'Al Mutawassit' channel TV station Tunisia's yesterday Ennahda leader Rashid Ghannouchi said; "What happened is a brutality committed not by humans but by monsters driven by hate...