Egyptian Unrest

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...

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,...

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 Yemeni activist and Nobel peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that accusations of "spying" against President Mohamed Morsi are a "farce". She pointed out that establishing international contacts...

In response to General Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi's call for authorisation to wipe out "terrorism," the leader of the third field army, Brigadier Usama Askar, said that his brigade would not...

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,...

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...

Egyptian and international human rights and cultural bodies have expressed their concerns about the focus of certain media to broadcast or publish material that spreads hatred and incites or...

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...

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....

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...

A senior official of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party said on Sunday that they are not resisting the interim government in order to free the kidnapped president, but "to...

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...

The former head of Israel's National Security Council, Giora Eiland, said on Wednesday that the events in Egypt and Syria bode well for the Zionist state. Major General Eiland...

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...

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...

In his last tweet before his detention, former parliamentarian Essam Sultan reflected on the past as he wrote about the American and British occupations who had their own ways...

After the ousting of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday night, the chief of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement, Rashid al-Ghanouchi, ruled out a replication of the Egyptian scenario in Tunis....

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...

A pre-dawn attack on Wednesday against a pro-Morsi rally left two killed and many injured. Medical sources in Rabaa Al-Adawiyya field clinic described the injuries as serious to moderate....

Two prominent anti-coup politicians have been arrested by the interim authorities in Egypt. Former parliamentarian Essam Sultan and Abul Ela Madi were detained, it is believed, for articulating their...

Reports from human rights organisations have revealed that the cases of sexual harassment and rape in Tahrir Square – where opposition supporters staged a sit-in – reached 100. According...

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 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...

In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Compassionate We have monitored the reactions to our first statement; some hailed it, some were critical and some were...

The de facto government of Egypt has arrested President Mohamed Morsi and closed down at least seven satellite television stations, arresting their staff in the process. It is believed...

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...

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...

Prominent writer and journalist Wael Qandil said on Saturday that Egypt is living through a period of time that could be called "the stage of eliminating the effects of...

Oil prices in the Asian markets rose sharply on Wednesday because of the ongoing unrest in Egypt, Aljazeera.net has reported. Brent Crude prices rose for a number of reasons,...

An official in the security directorate of Alexandria confirmed that the person who was arrested yesterday, Sunday, for throwing two young boys from the roof of an apartment block...

For the second time in two weeks the pipeline taking natural gas from Egypt to Jordan has been destroyed by unknown attackers to the east of El-Arish in North...