Police forces entered the Azhar University campus in response to a university administration request after escalating violence left one student dead on Saturday, the Egyptian state television reported. The police arrested 100 students suspected in taking part in acts of … read more
The discovery of a dummy bomb at Alexandria University on Saturday sparked panic on the campus. Explosives experts examined the device, found near the faculty of engineering, and told Al-Ahram Arabic website that it was a fake and did not … read more
The Egyptian National Seismic Network detected a 6.2-magnitude earthquake at 5.21 pm on Saturday, the Middle East News Agency reported. The centre of the quake, which occurred at a depth of 46 kilometres below the sea surface, was in Southern … read more
An improvised explosive device (IED) was found and deactivated inside a bus in Al-Hegaz Square in Heliopolis on Saturday afternoon. A detective officer on the scene told Daily News Egypt that a citizen found an IED on the bus and … read more
Egyptian students loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood fought police at the Cairo campus of Al-Azhar University on Saturday and set fire to two buildings, state television reported. A student activist said a supporter of the Brotherhood, designated this week as … read more
Five people were killed in clashes in Egypt Friday between Islamist protesters and opponents while 265 were arrested as police cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations, the interior ministry said, AFP reported. “Brotherhood actions caused the deaths of five citizens … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood claimed in a statement on Thursday that freezing the funds of 1,055 Islamic NGOs would help Christian missionaries convert poor Muslims. The statement quoted Bishop Paul of the Coptic Orthodox Church as saying that the church began … read more
A number of former jihadists have formed the Islamic Alliance to Support Stability which aims to renounce violence, support the draft constitution and nominate Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for president. The group’s statements came at a conference on Thursday … read more
Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that Egypt will stand strong in the face of terrorism, two days after a bomb blast at a security building in the Nile Delta’s city of Manosura, at a military graduation ceremony … read more
The Egyptian authorities banned the Muslim Brotherhood’s newspaper on Thursday, reported the state news agency MENA. The Freedom and Justice (al-Hurriya wa al-Adala) daily newspaper, named after the Brotherhood’s political party, first appeared in November 2011. read more