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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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Egyptian coup leader general Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's last interview with the Washington Post reveals his sense of self-importance, a leading strategy analyst has claimed. "Clearly," says Major General Abdul...
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The Deputy Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has refused to meet an international delegation in his prison cell to discuss possible solutions for the current political deadlock in Egypt....
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In one of the largest demonstrations witnessed in Tunisia since 2011, tens of thousands marched on the capital, Tunis, on Saturday in support of the Islamist-led government. In a...
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Egypt's post-coup interim government is borrowing at record high levels according to figures revealed by the Ministry of Finance in Cairo. In July alone, treasury bills amounting to 81.5...
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A spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Badr Abdel Atti, has admitted that the country's foreign minister, Nabil Fahmi, had misquoted an Amnesty International report. He described the incident...
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Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Laureate, Tawakkul Karman, said that she had received several death threats from supporters of the Egyptian coup and pro-coup journalists, prior to her visit...
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The interim government in Egypt has opened investigations into 75 judges who refused to cooperate with the military coup and the removal of freely-elected President Mohammed Morsi. The presiding...
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Egyptian security forces have launched an operation to disperse pro-Morsi sits in at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares in Cairo and Giza. Protesters have said that the security forces...
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A senior Egyptian politician has condemned coup leaders for what he describes as the shameful allegations against ousted President Mohammed Morsi. "It is illogical to accuse the president of...
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A recent field study indicates that the number of Egyptians opposed to the overthrow of Dr Mohammed Morsi as President has risen to 69 per cent. Only around 25...
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A prominent leader of the Freedom and Justice party, Mohamed al-Beltaji, has called for all Egyptians to take to the streets in support of the martyrs and wounded. Al-Beltaji...
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Mohamed Maher Aqel, an Al-Jazeera correspondent in Cairo, has said that ambulances transporting the martyrs and the injured have exploited the absence of organisation committees at the entrances and...
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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in al-Siwees governorate protesting against the massacres in Rabaa al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares. The protesters closed the streets leading to...
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