Pope Francis on Monday embraced the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, in a sign that a five-year suspension of important Catholic-Muslim ties was over. As Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib arrived for his audience in the … read more
On 12 May Egypt received the first shipment of armoured vehicles from the US. The US Embassy in Cairo featured an article on its official website on the details of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, designed to protect soldiers … read more
Stratfor Analysis As the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 continues and searchers begin to find evidence, the jihadist world has been strangely silent. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft early May 19 and we are … read more
Reuters Egypt’s public prosecutor formally requested data on the crashed EgyptAir plane from France and Greece on Monday, as the victims’ remains began arriving at a Cairo morgue ready for DNA testing. EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo vanished … read more
Imogen Faux Security at French airports, particularly Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, has come under intense scrutiny since the crash on Thursday of an EgyptAir plane en route from Paris to Cairo, with the loss of 66 lives. Both … read more
(Reuters) – The human remains so far retrieved from the wreckage of the crashed EgyptAir plane suggest that there was an explosion aboard, an Egyptian forensics official and investigation sources said on Tuesday. The official based his assessment on the … read more
Many speculations have been made on what caused EgyptAir’s flight MS804 to crash early Thursday morning, shortly before it was due to land, over the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Alexandria where the Egyptian Armed Forces located debris from … read more
After years of suspended talks, Pope Francis will receive at the Vatican on Monday Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning. The historic visit between the two religious leaders, which is … read more
National Air Navigation Services Company administrative board chairman Mohi El-Din Azmi denied late Sunday media reports that the pilot of the crashed EgyptAir MS804 contacted Egypt’s control centre, in a statement published by Al-Ahram newspaper. Foreign media reports on Sunday … read more
Reuters Egypt has sent a robot submarine on board the PMS BURULLUS to join the hunt for an EgyptAir plane which crashed in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi … read more