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On Sunday, Egypt's President, Mohammed Morsi, ordered the retirement of Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's Defence Minister and Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF); the...

Dr. Essam El-Erian, the acting head of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee in Cairo, has described parliament's decision to refer the...

The chairman of the legal committee of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt has said that presidential powers will allow Mohammed Morsi to annul the military decision to...

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...

Tel Aviv has confirmed continued security and military coordination-particularly regarding the Sinai Peninsula and tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip – with the Egyptian army represented by Defence...

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 Emirati Journalist Hamad Al Mazroui announced his intention to offer a financial reward of one million Egyptian pounds ($143 thousand) for any information that helps arrest three of...

Israeli newspapers have highlighted the state of chaos in Egypt after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi last week and noted that the situation is likely to remain this...

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,...

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...

Muslim Brotherhood official Mohamed Bishr has denied that the movement has had any formal contacts with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in order to start a...

The arbitrary detention of Muslim Brotherhood members signals the return of a police state, a movement spokesman has said. "That is why the Brotherhood cannot accept the coup against...

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 information advisor of the Freedom and Justice Party has issued a list of six goals for the protests against this week's military coup in Egypt. Writing on his...

The Egyptian health ministry has revealed that 30 people were killed in the country's anti-coup demonstrations on Friday. Four hundred and sixty protesters needed hospital treatment. As protesters approached...

A key aide of Egypt's President Morsi has revealed the three key decisions which appear to have been behind the timing of the military coup this week. They would...

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 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...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution has decided to release Al-Jazeera head office in Cairo journalist Abdul-Fattah Fayed after two days of detention and investigation. Fayed was detained after officers of...

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...

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 Al-Nahda party in Tunis have released a statement about the massacre of protestors this morning outside the Republican Guard in Cairo. "Early this morning putschist forces committed a...

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...

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...

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...

Amnesty International has called for an impartial and effective investigation into the killings that took place in Egypt over the previous days. It also described the response of the...

The Egyptian group Gamaa Islamiya has condemned the killing of detainees in the Abu Zaabal prison, arguing that the victims, including opponents of the military coup, were killed in...

On Sunday 38 detainees were killed during a transfer by Junta authorities to Abu Zaabal prison outside Cairo. The Egypt International Crimes Investigation Team (EICI) will this week ask...

Egyptian journalist, Wael Qandil, has said that Liberals do not understand the real meaning of liberalism. He said that it was not reasonable that they should support the killing...

Egyptian political activist Asmaa Mahfouz is astonished by the massacres in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares being justified on the grounds of catching terrorists, while the leaders of these...

A close confidante of the president of Egypt overthrown by the January 25th Revolution has revealed that the government of Saudi Arabia offered the then military chief Field Marshal...

The 6th of April Youth Movement has condemned the appearance of General Hussein Tantawi, the former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, next to Defence Minister...