Tunisian army and police forces secured the vicinity of Egypt’s embassy in Tunisia after the embassy received a bomb threat from the Amazigh Islamic Front, said Ayman Mesharrafa, Egypt’s ambassador to Tunisia. Mesharrafa told the Middle East News Agency on … read more
Gunmen attacked North Sinai’s television building early on Thursday and exchanged fire with security forces. Eyewitnesses said that the assailants hid in nearby residences and fired shots on the building, targeting security personnel. The attack destroyed the front gate of … read more
Supporters of ousted former President Mohammad Mursi on Wednesday called on Egyptians to hold protests against his removal on “Friday of Martyrs.” “We will remain steadfast on the road to defeating the military coup,” said a statement from The National … read more
Abdul Salam Badr had no choice but to shave his beard to save himself from becoming a target in Egypt’s crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. In recent days, overt signs of piety have become all it … read more
Tamer Abdel-Raouf, manger of the Al-Ahram office in Beheira, was shot dead on Monday evening a few hours after the beginning of the state-imposed curfew at 7pm. Abdel-Raouf was returning from a meeting with the governor of Beheira, a Nile … read more
Security forces arrested the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, from an apartment in Nasr City on Tuesday, the interior ministry said on its official Facebook page. A Cairo prosecutor had ordered that Badie, his deputy Khairat al-Shater and Rashad … read more
The Rebel Campaign (Tamarod) has launched on its official website a petition to demand the cancellation of both US aid and the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. “After the unacceptable American intervention in Egyptian affairs, and how … read more
Thirty million people in the streets of Egypt, with the help of the Egyptian military, have saved the United States from the consequences of its disastrous policy of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood since President Barack Obama came to office. Just … read more
A mob marched nuns through the battle-torn streets of Cairo ‘like prisoners of war’ in the latest outrage against Egypt’s Christian minority. Sister Manal, principal of a Franciscan school in suburban Cairo, watched for six hours as a mob looted … read more
At least 36 Islamist prisoners have been killed in Egypt after an apparent attempt to escape during their transfer to a prison outside Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood described the incident as “cold-blooded killing”. Prime Minister David Cameron and French President … read more