Suez Canal

The Commander of the Egyptian Navy has said that his country will not participate in any international alliances against maritime piracy unless they arise out of a UN resolution....

Egyptian media sources have confirmed reports from Israeli intelligence agencies that the US has moved some of its naval forces from the Fifth Fleet closer to the Suez Canal....

The Suez Canal Authority has denied reports that it refused to grant permission for two Iranian warships to use the canal to get from the Red Sea to the...

The Egyptian Minister of Finance, Momtaz Saeed, has denied allegations that the Suez Canal has been mortgaged in return for huge loans. During the presidential election, a huge debate...

Documents obtained by the Egyptian "Rose al-Yusef" newspaper have revealed that throughout 2011 Israel sought international agreement for a plan which would establish an alternative to the Suez Canal....

Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has announced plans to revitalise the services provided along the Suez Canal, including the computerisation of access. He also used his speech at the inauguration...

Qatar has announced that it is to provide another $2.5 billion to support the Egyptian economy; $500 million will be an outright grant and $2 billion will take the...

Egypt's Minister of Defence and Military Production and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has asserted that the armed forces will continue to work...

The Israeli Transport Minister has visited Beijing on a number of occasions to agree the terms of a new Chinese-Israeli railway project, however, Cairo has written a letter of...

In cooperation with Egypt's Military Engineering Unit, Egyptian border forces have destroyed ten tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security sources. In addition,...

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has raised its tolls for shipping with immediate effect. The new tolls will reflect increases of between 2 and 5 per cent, depending on...

The outgoing deputy governor of Alexandria, Dr Hassan al Berens, has said that the UAE's sudden announcement of its gratitude to the temporary president of the coup in Egypt...

The Egyptian Central Bank announced on Tuesday that net transfers from Egyptians working abroad increased during the past fiscal year to reach a record high of $18.7 billion. During...

British Petroleum announced earlier this month that it has found gas resources estimated to be around 1.2 trillion cubic feet, or more, in the Salamat well in the Nile...

An Israeli website alleged to be close to the Mossad spy agency has claimed that the leader of the coup in Egypt, General Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi, receives intelligence on the...

Egypt's National Alliance for Supporting Legitimacy and Opposing the Coup revealed on Thursday that the coup leaders have sold land east and west of the Suez Canal to the...

Egyptian activist Ismail Al-Iskandarani has released information about several companies owned by Israelis that are offering security services in Egypt. Al-Iskandarani said that the owners of the companies served...

The head of state industrial holding company Rostec said on Monday that Russia is to provide Egypt with air defence missile systems. Sergei Chemezov told the state-run RIA Novosti...

A report by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights has revealed that an Israeli company, Seagull Maritime Security, provides maritime security services for cruises and cargo ships passing through...

VIDEO Egypt's security expert, General Abdul Hamid Omran has denounced the coup leaders who employed an Israeli company to provide maritime security to the Suez Canal. During an interview...

Middle East Monitor's report published today on Egypt negotiating Israeli gas via Cyprus highlights how the role of Egypt and Israel, and their supply of gas, has been reversed. Read...

VIDEO The Obama administration's recent decision to suspend selected US military aid to Egypt after the Egyptian army's brutal crackdown against peaceful anti-coup protesters has raised the ire of...

What the media scene in our dear Egypt has witnessed over the last year has not been witnessed by the strongest democracies in the world; those who believe in...

Since Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted in a military coup on 3 July, the US has been in an awkward position. An automatic Congressional instrument halts military aid...

It is believed widely in Egypt that US aid to the country is a sign of Egyptian weakness, but the Americans see it differently. If Egypt wasn't important strategically,...

The desperate opposition groups in Egypt are dragging the country into a new crisis even before it has emerged from the previous one, which appears to be endless. It's...