Egyptian Unrest

The Secretary-General of the Arab League has left Cairo for an international tour in order to drum up support for the military coup in Egypt and try to convince...

On July 7, London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat quoted its correspondent from Ramallah as saying that the head of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, Avigdor Lieberman, who is...

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza has announced the suspension of its school construction programme. Work on 39 new schools has been stopped due to the...

The Kuwaiti lawyer Abdallah Ibrahim Al Kandary has filed an administrative lawsuit with an urgent request to stop the implementation of the Cabinet Council's decision to grant Egypt $4...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, to ensure that an impartial investigation of police and military officers is conducted regarding the killing of...

The government in Tunisia has arrested three of its own citizens and two people from the UAE on the grounds that they appear to have been creating conditions for...

Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the country has reinforced its missile defence system near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks by 'Islamist terrorists' who are...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has said that the blood of the Egyptian people rule is extremely cheap in the eyes of the political and media elites who...

An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza has noted the decline in the number of people crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, creating what he...

MEMO EXCLUSIVE The United Arab Emirates has sent Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben Zayed to the US to seek an urgent meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry because the...

Yemeni activist and Noble Peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that dispersing the Egyptian protests forcibly would lead to a new, full revolution against the military rule. Writing on...

News websites reported that the daughter of Dubai's ruler resented the United Arab Emirates continued support of the Egyptian army's suppression of supporters of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi....

Security sources said that Egyptian security forces killed a senior editor in state Al-Ahram newspaper Tamer abdul-Ra'ouf at a military checkpoint near the city of Damanhour on Monday night....

Leaked records of the interrogation of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, reveal that he has been insulted and assaulted by police since his arrest on...

Because of the severe shortage of fuel and electricity in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry is warning of the possibility of a cessation in its healthcare services...

Egypt's Minister of Defence has ruled out a return of the army to the streets in a military coup against President Mohamed Morsi. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dismissed the calls...

The Muslim Brotherhood will protect the movement's offices across Egypt using its own members during the June 30 demonstrations by political opponents. Gamal Heshmat of the Freedom and Justice...

More than 30 revolutionary, youth, political and Islamist parties are holding a mass rally today, Friday, under the banner of "No to violence". The event is being held at...

A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has said that the coup against Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi "has already started". Benjamin Ben-Eliezer added that he thinks "civil war...

Egypt's president is ready to sacrifice himself to defend his constitutional legitimacy. Mohammed Morsi told television viewers on Tuesday night that "respect for legitimacy is the sole guarantee to...

President Mohammed Morsi has called on opposition leaders to start a dialogue and let him know what their political aspirations and vision are. In a statement on Monday, the...

To mark his first anniversary as Egyptian president, on Wednesday evening Mohamed Morsi delivered a long speech to the Egyptian nation. The first message of Morsi's speech was directed...

Deputy Chief of the Freedom and Justice party Esam El-Erian said on Thursday that Egyptians are worried about political division, media polarisation and an increasing crisis in living standards....

The leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has called on anti-coup protesters in Egypt to stand up for their rights and reject the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. Shaikh Rashid...

The Ruling coalition in Tunis said on Thursday that it is ready to play the role of mediator to lessen the tensions that have erupted in Egypt in the...

Egyptian ambassador and former deputy foreign minister Nehad Abdul-Latif has travelled to Togo as a presidential envoy at the start of an African tour to explain the views of...

Amnesty International has criticised the decision by the military appointed government in Egypt to forcibly disperse pro-Morsi sit-ins from Rabaa Al-Adawiyya, Al-Nahda and other Egyptians squares. The organisation, warned...

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 Egypt Doctors' Syndicate (EDS) has revealed hidden facts about the massacre committed against pro-Morsi protesters in front of the Republican Guard's Club at dawn last Monday when army...

The field hospital in Midan Adawiya has reported that almost 200 supporters of the ousted President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, have been shot and killed by the army and...

The military coup has resulted in a massive loss to the Egyptian economy estimated at about 120 billion Egyptian pounds (around £11.5 billion/ $17.1 billion), economic experts have calculated....

Video Egyptian police opened fire towards anti-coup protesters on Friday while they were praying in front of the El-Arish Governorate building in north Sinai. The shooting was apparently intended...