Coup

In cooperation with Egypt's Military Engineering Unit, Egyptian border forces have destroyed ten tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security sources. In addition,...

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,...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Massive crowds of pro-Morsi demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt after the Alliance of Pro-Morsi Legitimacy called for protests in support of the democratically-elected president who was...

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...

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...

Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki has called on the African Union to hold an urgent meeting to discuss a peaceful solution for the Egyptian crisis. Mr Marzouki has bypassed the...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution has decided to release Al-Jazeera head office in Cairo journalist Abdul-Fattah Fayed after two days of detention and investigation. Fayed was detained after officers of...

A physician in a field clinic in Rabia Al-Adawiyya Square has said that on Monday, he witnessed things he had never before seen. "Between 3.40am and 7.30am was the...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has denied reports that the group's Supreme Guide, Dr. Mohamed Badie, has offered to pull all protesters off the streets in return for the release Dr....

The Al-Nahda party in Tunis have released a statement about the massacre of protestors this morning outside the Republican Guard in Cairo. "Early this morning putschist forces committed a...

Egyptian security forces killed 34 people yesterday after opening fire on an anti-coup demonstration in Cairo. More than 300 were wounded when the forces used live fire as the...

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...

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...

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...

Egypt's Minister of Defence and Chief of the General Staff has met with the man he pushed out of office in a military coup. General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi visited...

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...

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...

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday that it refuses to attend reconciliation meetings called for by the interim president, Adly Mansour. The Islamic movement has based its decision on...

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...

Amidst the sea of information, or rumours, swirling around the marches and demonstrations supporting deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, one has been that Palestinians and Syrians have infiltrated...

A former general has accused coup leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of running "militias" in false flag operations which are behind the unrest in Sinai. Speaking to Al-Jazeera Mubasher...

An official of the Salvation Front said on Wednesday that the interim government includes a number of ministers from the "remnants" of the deposed Mubarak regime. Hussein Abdul-Ghani named...

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,...

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 Egyptian army has dismissed the son of detained head of Al-Wasat Party, Abul Ela Madi, for security reasons. Ahmed Abul Ela wrote on his Facebook wall that, "the...

Egypt's satellite communication company, Nilesat, has continued to attack television stations that had been covering events during the military coup against President Mohammed Morsi. Political and religious channels have...

A new scandal for coup supporters in Egypt has emerged after Egyptian ON TV, which is backed by Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiris, accidently aired a discussion between the billionaire...