The Egyptian army announced in a statement Monday morning it has conducted air strikes against Islamic State targets in Libya including training camps and arms depots. On Sunday night President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Egypt reserves the right to retaliate against the … read more
“Armed militia” in Libya’s Misrata kidnapped another 21 Egyptians, all fishermen, head of the fishermen’s syndicate told the press on Saturday. Head of the syndicate in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Ahmed Nassar, urged the authorities to quickly intervene to bring the … read more
Two small bombs exploded early Sunday on the railway in Kafr El-Zayat City, halting train movements between Cairo and Alexandria. A maintenance team is repairing the track, local council leader Ahmed El-Shenawy told Aswat Masriya. The explosions also affected train movement … read more
A police officer was killed and three others were wounded on Sunday morning when unidentified gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the village of Kafr al-Gazar in Benha. Intervention forces were rapidly dispatched to the area to search for the gunmen. … read more
Libyan parliament confirmed Saturday the death of 21 kidnapped Egyptian Coptic Christian workers in Libya following photos released by an English publication affiliated with the ‘Islamic State’, called Dabeq, claiming their execution. The Libyan legislative body said that the workers … read more
Police in Egypt say they have thwarted two Islamic militant suicide car bomb attacks on a police station in the restive northern Sinai. Police officials said Saturday the attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweyid wounded two police officers. Police … read more
A 35 year-old man died in Cairo after being infected with H5N1 bird flu, Egypt’s Health Ministry announced on Friday. The death raises the death toll for those killed with bird flu in Egypt this year to 11, the ministry … read more
New Romantic pioneer and Visage frontman Steve Strange has died of a heart attack in Egypt, his record label has confirmed. He was 55. The Welsh pop star came to prominence in the 1980s as the singer of Visage, who … read more
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry is investigating the authenticity of pictures purportedly showing the Egyptian abductees in Libya, the Ministry Spokesman Badr Abdel Atty said on Thursday. Twenty Coptic Egyptians were abducted in the Libyan city of Sirte on two separate occasions, … read more
Eight security personnel and a civilian were injured early Friday in a blast in Cairo, a source at the Interior ministry said. The explosion was caused by a makeshift bomb targeting a security patrol in Cairo’s Gesr al-Suez, state-run MENA … read more