Egyptian Government

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Despite the Egyptian government's persistence in building the subterranean steel barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip aimed at sealing off the system of tunnels vital...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that the leader of the Hamas political bureau will be visiting Russia next week to discuss reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. Spokesman Andrei...

MEMO sources in Gaza have confirmed the arrival of the first batch of Viva Palestina aid vehicles after an arduous journey of four weeks. Their already difficult journey had...

Media sources have claimed that the new regime in Cairo has made efforts to revive discussions of an exchange of prisoners between the Palestinians and Israelis. Israel currently holds...

The Egyptian Foreign Minister has told the Palestinians that lifting the Israeli-imposed siege of Gaza – supported by the discredited Mubarak regime – is a priority for the new...

Israel has submitted a proposal to the Egyptian government for a prisoner swap whereby the Zionist spy Ouda Tarabin would be released in exchange for a number of Egyptians...

Humanitarian aid worth $100,000 from the Malaysian organization Aman Palestin has been delivered to the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing. A 12-member delegation accompanied the aid convoy,...

The Israeli daily Ma'ariv has reported that Egypt has rejected an Israeli request to upgrade relations between the two countries. According to the newspaper, Israel is doing its best...

Official Egyptian sources have announced that the government has started to send medical and humanitarian aid to Syrians suffering as a result of the revolution in their country. The...

A spokesman for President Morsi has claimed that Egypt has not received any official objections from Israel to the deployment of tanks in Sinai. Speaking to Aljazeera, he stressed...

Diplomatic sources have revealed that the Egyptian government has contacted its Israeli counterpart to strike a deal for the release of its nationals being held in Israel's prisons. At...

The Egyptian government have informed Israel of their decision to cancel an agreement to supply them with natural gas signed by the previous regime. The cancelled agreement provides Israel...

Will a 62-year-old engineer, businessman and father of 10 sons, who was removed from his university post by former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and was arrested by ousted President...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has called the electricity and fuel shortages "totally fabricated political crises", and accused the Israeli occupation and its "tools" of trying to aggravate the...

Engineer Hatem Saleh, Egyptian Minister of Commerce and Industry, confirmed that there is political will in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia to push the development of relations between the...

The Israeli spy detained in Egypt, Oda al-Tarabeen, has announced he is going on hunger strike in protest against his country's negligence of his plight, Israel radio said on Wednesday. Al-Tarabeen,...

Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza and deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyyeh, has dismissed allegations of tensions in the relations between Hamas and Egypt, Qatar's Al-Sharq newspaper...

The Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai have arrested a spy network working for Israel that includes Egyptians and Palestinians. The main suspect had been monitored for a period...

Talks between the International Monetary Fund and Egypt have ended without an agreement regarding a proposed loan of $4.8 billion to help Cairo deal with its severe economic crisis....

Abdullah Al-Obeikan, the chairman of Combibloc, part of the Saudi Obeikan Group, has announced that his company is negotiating with the Egyptian government for land to build five packaging...

Dr Mohammed Morsi has insisted that he will not allow anyone to "interfere" in his country's affairs. The Egyptian president expressed his people's appreciation of those who stood beside...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyyah, on Sunday stressed the strength of Palestinian-Egyptian relations saying, "No one can spoil them." The PM firmly ruled out any threat...

The Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah has agreed to fund new reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip worth $15 million. An IDB delegation made the announcement at the end...

Israel apologized to the Arab Republic of Egypt on Wednesday over an incident that happened in the old town of Jerusalem last Saturday in which Israeli police attacked Egyptian...

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...

Following the demands made by Egypt's permanent representative at the UN, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, phoned Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to halt Israeli violations against...

In the past two days the Hamas movement has briefed Egyptian security authorities on a vast amount of intelligence documents they obtained after entering the headquarters of the Palestinian...

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...

The Egyptian opposition could not influence Egyptian public opinion even if all secular and liberal parties were united under a single umbrella, USA Today has said. The Salvation Front...

Major General Abdul Hamid Omran, President Morsi's strategic expert, has said that the government should not wait until June 30th when matters will potentially be chaotic, but to take...

PICTURES Long queues of vehicles are lining the streets in front of gas stations up and down the Gaza Strip in the latest gasoline crisis to have hit the...

The Government of Israel has refused to comment officially one way or the other on the ousting of Egypt's elected President Mohammed Morsi. A Likud member of the parliament...