When Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, the two sons of Egypt’s former president, deposed in 2011, were released from prison on 26 January, most local and foreign media attention was focused on Gamal. Agreement is widespread that that the release of … read more
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded inside the Kom Ombo court in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan on Wednesday, a security official said. Ashraf Atris, the director of the police’s civil protection unit told Aswat Masriya that the explosion … read more
A bomb went off near a checkpoint Tuesday evening injuring seven security personnel in Qaliubya, in Greater Cairo. Two more bombs were found close to a checkpoint in Qena Wednesday. One of the Qena devices was a sound bomb, which … read more
Egypt’s ministry of foreign affairs said global condemnations to violence in Egypt are completely devoid of reality, in a statement on Tuesday. The United States, United Kingdom and United Nations all expressed condemnation of the deadly violence that broke out … read more
Egypt’s interior minister said on Monday that the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood wanted to have “another revolution” on Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 uprising. Mohamed Ibrahim said at a press conference that without the “police’s decisive stance” … read more
An explosion on a railway track in Beheira governorate has halted train movement until repairs are completed, railway authority head Ahmed Hamed said in a statement reported by Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The explosion took place between the villages of … read more
An explosion in Port Said has rocked the headquarters of the city’s Workers’ Union Federation, Egypt’s state broadcaster reported. No casualties or injuries were reported in the incident on Tuesday morning. The explosion caused damage to the building’s outer wall … read more
By Nourhan Magdi CAIRO: Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was fatally shot as she marched to a memorial Tahrir Square Jan. 24 to honor victims of the 2011 uprising with a wreath, and became the first casualty of the commemoration of the fourth … read more
Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (ABM) on Monday published online a graphic video showing the kidnapping and murder of police captain Ayman El-Desouki earlier this month. El-Desouki was kidnapped at a checkpoint on the highway between the cities of … read more
Head of Cairo’s fire department said explosives’ experts defused a bomb at City Stars, a huge shopping mall in Nasr City district east of the capital on Monday afternoon. Speaking to Reuters’ Aswat Masriya, Major General Mamdouh Abdel-Kader stated that … read more