An Israeli drone strike killed five suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher in Egypt’s largely lawless Sinai Peninsula on Friday, two senior Egyptian security officials said, describing a rare Israeli operation carried out in its Arab neighbor’s territory. … read more
Hundreds of pro-Mursi demonstrators made their way to the Defense Ministry and the military intelligence headquarters in Cairo on Friday afternoon. The marches caused traffic jam in the Masr al-Gedida and Nasr City areas. Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi … read more
Israel shut its southernmost Eilat airport near Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Thursday until further notice because of security concerns, the military said. “Due to security assessments, the Israeli army has instructed Eilat Airport to cancel all departures and arrivals,” a … read more
The Obama administration’s efforts to promote democracy in Egypt are being complicated by what many Egyptians see as mixed and confusing messages coming from Washington, exacerbating already high anti-American sentiment and threatening broader U.S. goals in the region. Any administration … read more
The Anti-Coup alliance has urged supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi to take to the streets after Friday prayers as it continues to ignore the government’s threat to disperse sit-ins by the Muslim Brotherhood by force. It said in … read more
Hoda abdel Nasser Greetings, Allow me Lieutenant General to express my opinion on a sensitive issue related to Egypt’s future. It was an initiative from the people that launched the 25 January revolution, just like the revolution in 1919, and … read more
Protesters in Rabaa al-Adaweya started building steel walls around the site of their sit-in fearing their protest would be forcibly dispersed during Eid al-Fitr. Egypt Independent has learned that the Muslim Brotherhood has placed sand, cement, and steel around the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm: Is Israel concerned about developments in Egypt after the 30 June uprising? Tarek Fahmy: There is Israeli concern about a number of issues, including the presence of Salafi jihadist organizations in the Sinai and the threat they pose … read more
Every year, the U.S. Congress appropriates more than $1 billion in military aid to Egypt. But that money never gets to Egypt. It goes to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then to a trust fund at the Treasury … read more
Egypt’s interior ministry said on its Facebook page on Thursday that it has found images of tortured bodies with an unemployed man it arrested for attacking a police officer at a sit-in demanding the reinstatement of President Mohamed Mursi. The … read more