Two armed elements were killed and nine others were arrested in security crackdowns south of Arish on Thursday morning. The forces launched a crackdown on farms south of Arish, army sources told Aswat Masriya. The arrested, all of whom are … read more
The United States’ ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, has sent a strongly-worded letter to the editor of Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram criticising a front page article that suggested Patterson was engaging in conspiracies with the Muslim Brotherhood. Editor-in-chief Abdel Nasser Salama, … read more
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has attacked the Salafi-led Nour Party, after the former ally’s leadership issued a statement supporting the armed forces and Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The Brotherhood accused Nour officials of being agents of presidential candidate Ahmed … read more
Egypt’s military-backed government is to clamp down on Al Jazeera’s Egyptian television channel, accusing it of threatening national security, the state news agency MENA said on Thursday. The channel this week aired statements from two leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood … read more
Egypt’s Interior Ministry confirmed Thursday the arrest of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagi in a village in the Giza province. In a statement, the ministry said Beltagi was arrested along with other Muslim Brotherhood figures Khaled al-Azhari, a former … read more
The man who killed a female overseas Filipino worker and kept her body inside a suitcase has been arrested, the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. The suspect, a male co-worker of the victim who hails from the Republic … read more
Former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei has denied statements attributed to him about the current situation in Egypt. He also denounced claims that there exists a videoclip of him giving these statements. He said that he did not speak to the … read more
Britain has suspended 49 export licences to Egypt, saying it wanted to prevent British military goods being used in unrest that has led to civilian deaths in the Arab country. London has already taken action to restrict exports to Egypt, … read more
Sources say that the Muslim Brotherhood had prepared an apology written by Gehad al-Haddad, son of deposed presidential adviser Essam al-Haddad, and that it was supposed to be announced by Ahmed Aref, a Brotherhood spokesperson. Essam Talimah, a Brotherhood Youth … read more
Special forces have entered buildings in the posh neighourhood by Wednesday evening to search for any possible assailants who have not been captured yet following an earlier attack on soldiers in the late afternoon hours, eyewitnesses told Ahram Arabic website. … read more