Egyptian army

Reports in the Egyptian media claim that Israel's spy agency, Mossad, has plotted to cause infertility in Egypt. According to Al-Ahram newspaper, Supreme State Security Criminal Court investigations of...

A call for "million-man" marches in support of the Palestinians has been made by Egypt's Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution. The first march, to be held in Alexandria...

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that the Israeli Defence Forces on the borders with Egypt will continue to be on high alert until the security situation settles...

The popular demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and his regime have prompted the head of the Israeli parliament's Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security, Shaul Mofaz,...

Egypt's Minister of Defence has said that the Egyptian armed forces will not allow any danger to threaten Sinai. Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pointed out that his troops...

Israel's Channel 10 TV station website has quoted Israeli political sources as saying that if the newly-appointed Egyptian army commanders don't work with Israel, then the Israel Defence Forces...

The Policy Director at Israel's Ministry of Defence has said that Egypt has complete sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula and does not need cooperation with the Israelis to crack...

The Israel Defence Forces knew about the attack which targeted an Egyptian army post on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and evacuated an outpost close to...

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party candidate for the Egyptian presidency has said that the time of the dictators has ended "and will never return"....

The Egyptian Minister of Defence has banned private ownership of land along the border between Sinai and Israel in order to boost security in the region. General Abdel Fattah...

Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali, the Egyptian army official spokesman, denied the veracity of a report posted on the website of the American newspaper, World Tribune. In an item published...

Israel Today newspaper has prepared a special report on the Arab armies in the Middle East; its title is telling; "Long Arm in the Region" is a reference to...

Saudi Arabian and Egyptian armed forces have begun joint military exercises in the Western Area of Saudi Arabia aimed at improving the technical competence of troops as well as...

Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Othman, has expressed appreciation for the Palestinian government in Gaza's position, patience and cooperation with the Egyptian authorities in resolving the captured...

In the wake of the liberation of the seven Egyptian soldiers kidnapped by armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday called for the kidnappers...

On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh phoned Al-Areesh Governor, Abdel Fatah Harhour, and congratulated him on the release and safe return of some recently detained soldiers. He also...

A Palestinian official in Gaza said that a representative of the Egyptian army told the government in Gaza that the Rafah Crossing was closed until further notice. Since the...

Three retired members of Israel's military establishment have told a chat show host that the most important outcome of the coup against Mohamed Morsi is the weakening of the...

On Tuesday evening, the Channel Ten news website reported the Minister of the Israeli army, Moshe Yaalon, as saying that "the Egyptian army has reinforced the presence of its...

The number of people killed in Egypt by the army, police, state security service and pro-coup thugs has reached 271; thousands more have been wounded. The largest single incident...

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...

As a part of the operation to raze all tunnels, the Egyptian army forces destroyed five tunnels and a house near the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip on...

Head of the Change Party Bassem Khafaji has said that the suspension of US aid to the Egyptian army is a sign of the US's tense relations with the...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) sent a letter to INTERPOL asking it to suspend its cooperation with Egyptian authorities following arrest warrants which had...

"Nobody solves their problems with an army, and armies should be kept out of political problems. Try to find a method of understanding among yourselves, as if the army...

In Egypt, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of the Egyptian armed forces is now the most powerful man in the land. While Hitler and Mussolini were invited, or voted into...

Last Tuesday was the 45th anniversary of the outbreak of a war between Egypt and Israel that reshaped the Middle East. At 7.30am, on 5 June, 1967, 200 Israeli...

The head of the Tunisian Islamist party and the brains behind a successful transitional coalition with two securalist parties has flown to Cairo to persuade the Muslim Brotherhood in...

There is, today, nothing louder than the voices of sabotage, destruction, and incitement in the Egyptian media. There has been a determined attempt to aggravate the relationship between the...