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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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