An aide to Egypt’s foreign minister has called on the US-led international coalition against Islamic State (IS) to intervene against the militant group in Libya, as it has previously done in Syria and Iraq. Ambassador Abdel-Rahman Salah said that “terrorism … read more
The Egyptian and Saudi defence ministers discussed Egypt’s participation in the Saudi-led coalition carrying out military operations in Yemen in talks late on Thursday, Egypt’s state news agency said. Egypt’s Defence Minister Sedki Sobhi visited Saudi counterpart Prince Mohammed bin Salman and … read more
Ajnad Misr has replaced slain leader Hammam Ateya, who was killed during a police raid Sunday, with a new leader codenamed Ezz el-Din el-Masry, according to a Thursday statement by the militant group. While the police says they detected Ateya’s … read more
By Walid Shoebat You heard it correctly. A Fatwa is shared on several prominent news media in the Middle East (here, here, here, here and here) and so many more, attributed to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, which … read more
A Russian passenger plane en route to Ufa made a forced landing in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh early on Thursday after suffering engine failure, Al-Ahram Arabic reported. The 232-passenger plane returned to Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport, from where it took off … read more
A huge fire erupted at an oil warehouse in Central Cairo on Thursday, encircling the neighbourhood with thick smoke, a civil protection official said. Mamdouh Abdel Qader, director of the civil protection administration in Cairo, told Aswat Masriya the burning warehouse … read more
The government decision replacing the system of obtaining on-arrival tourist visas at airports with electronically-obtained visas is likely to boost the sector and draw in new tourists, officials and analysts said. “We expect to see a climb in tourists’ influx … read more
Egypt’s annual inflation surged to 11.8 percent in March, marking roughly a 1.1 percent rise from 10.7 percent in February, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced Thursday. This hike brought annual inflation to its former peak … read more
Egypt’s government has approved a draft law tackling internet crime and submitted it to the presidency for final approval, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Khaled Negm said on Thursday. In a phone call from Beirut, the minister, who is … read more
Egypt signed a loan agreement worth 60 million Kuwaiti dinars (around $199.4 million) with the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development on Wednesday, a ministry said. The loan will be used to finance a power plant project, West of … read more