Egyptian security officials say a Christian man who has been kidnapped by suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula is a police forensic expert. They identified him Saturday as 45-year-old Adeeb Nakhlah, who lived and worked in el-Arish until 2017 when … read more
A severe sandstorm on Wednesday struck several parts of Egypt, including capital Cairo, leaving five people dead. The inclement weather claimed the life of a person and injured two others when a building partially collapsed in the northeastern part of … read more
An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the release of a woman accused of spreading “false statements” by telling the BBC her daughter had been forcibly disappeared. Mona Mahmud Mohammad has been in custody since March 2018 over accusations that she … read more
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has issued a decree regulating foreign travels by senior officials, the Ahram Online news website reported Tuesday. The decree stipulated in its first article that the permission for traveling abroad for official missions and activities by senior … read more
Italian news agency ANSA reports that Milan’s Malpensa Airport was closed temporarily after an Egyptian passenger who was not allowed into Italy jumped from a parked airplane and evaded law enforcement. ANSA said the man arrived in Milan on a … read more
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university on Monday overturned a decision to expel a female student who was filmed hugging a male colleague, after the country’s top Muslim cleric intervened in her favour. In a video widely circulated earlier this month, a man … read more
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university on Sunday said it had expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school’s reputation. The video, which went viral earlier this month, showed a young … read more
Egyptian authorities on Monday deported a second dual German-Egyptian national for suspected links to the Daesh terrorist group, according to the official MENA news agency. Issa Mohammed Sabbagh, 19, was arrested upon arrival in the southern city of Luxor from … read more
The Egyptian parliament approved on Sunday a three-month extension of an already-imposed state of emergency due to security challenges facing the Arab country, official MENA news agency reported. The parliament approved a presidential decree to extend the emergency state by … read more
A 23-year-old German-Egyptian citizen detained by Egyptian authorities at Cairo airport on December 27 has arrived back home in the central German city of Göttingen. Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the man’s return on Friday. Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said that authorities arrested the man … read more