Egypt

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told a visiting Swiss delegation there would be no return to Hamas-Fatah unity talks following the Eid Al-Adha holiday. The announcement followed long on the...

By: Adil Al-Dargali and Mahmoud Gawish A report published on Thursday 7th January by "Almasri Alyoum", on the Egyptian government policy to import natural gas in order to meet...

More than a thousand Palestinians crossed into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on Sunday. The Egyptian authorities sent back 72 people, according to Gaza's Borders and Crossings Authority;...

The head of Iman University in Yemen has condemned the "unjust" siege of Gaza. Although restrictions on the whole population have been in place for many years, said Shaikh...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESPalestinians continue to work in the tunnels on the Rafah border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Essential goods, food, drink and medical supplies continue to be tranported...

Egypt's Foreign Minister has said that his country will support the Palestinian move for UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state in September. Mohamed Kamel Amr said that the...

The Egyptian authorities have arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of spying and attempting to incite a security vacuum in order to make the revolution fail. Ilan Chaim Grapel is...

The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed that Ehud Barak told a US Congressional delegation in June 2009 that he tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead, the invasion...

The national Security Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister visited Egypt on 28 December in preparation for a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Benjamin Netanyahu. That meeting...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Gaza Strip, which is an estimated 360 square kilometres, is home to over one and a half million Palestinians. On one side of its 40km length, it...

Egyptian sources have reported that the Egyptian army's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chairman of the ruling military council, Lt Gen Sami Anan, announced on Thursday night that Egyptian...

The head of the Centre for Palestine Studies in Cairo has revealed that the Egyptian intelligence service is preparing to oversee the second phase of the prisoner exchange deal...

The Egyptian presidency said on Wednesday evening that it received all nominations from the different Egyptian parties for the prospective ministerial reshuffle. It asserted that the current Prime Minister...

PHOTOS As electricity and gas shortages continue to cripple the Gaza Strip one student has developed an ingenious method to combat the problem. 18 year old Ibrahim Saad has...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Wednesday for Israel to find new allies in light of his country's "deteriorating" relations with the US, according to an Israeli newspaper....

Member of the Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouq expressed surprise on Thursday after several parties called for severing relations between Cairo and Hamas. He wondered: "Is there a relationship...

Yahoo has announced that it has closed its office in Cairo, citing a plan to merge its offices in the Middle East as the reason. The company did not...

An economic study by HSBC Bank concluded that Egypt is the worst place to host expatriate workers. The Washington Post published the study's results, indicating that Egypt, which ranked...

Fifty-two Palestinian and Syrian refugees detained in Egypt are on hunger strike in protest at the conditions in which they are being held. As the group's health deteriorates after...

Egypt has suddenly decided that Jordanian and Palestinian employees in the telecommunications and petrol sectors pose a threat to Egypt's national security. A number of Jordanian and Palestinians employees...

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that Israel must make greater efforts to ensure peace with the Palestinians, a day after supporting Israel on the contentious...

The United States sent a message to Egypt stating it does not support the proposed reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas as it would undermine negotiations with Israel, Haaretz...

The comic performance being acted out in Egypt nowadays – also known as Mubarak's trial, or the trial of the century – is actually the play of the century....

By Dr. Abdul Wahhab Al-Effendi22/12/2009 The steel wall that Egypt intends to build on its borders with besieged Gaza illustrates the double bind that resulted from the Camp David...

Today was Christmas and a rather surreal one at that. Instead of tucking into the usual Turkey with stuffing and all of the trimmings, Viva Palestina convoy members tucked...

Dr Abdel Sattar QassemProfessor of Political studies, Al Najah National University Egyptian officials start talking about Egypt's sovereignty every time Gaza is in need of food even though the...

By Yvonne Ridley in Cairo Telling the truth can be a complicated business. This was one of the first lessons I learned at a very tender age. Still unable...

By Seumas MilneThe Guardian, Thursday 7 January 2010 Egypt's complicity in the Gaza's siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war If...

The source of the latest (but almost certainly not the last) attempt to revive the so-called "peace process" is shrouded in mystery. Egyptian officials claim that they kicked it...

By Dr. Eyad Sarraj We do not need a great deal of intelligence, access to classified information, round or square theories to be able to put events into perspective...

By Fahmi Huwaidi Although it is humbling to read that Netanyahu is coming to Egypt, two questions arise: are relations between Cairo and Tel Aviv entirely divorced from Israeli...

Our brothers in Egypt have the right to dig trenches as they want, build walls as they like, and stick in the ground, to whatever depth they want, reinforced...