New Cairo prosecution has asked for the names of policemen at a checkpoint on the Ring Road where a police major had been accused of molesting a woman at gunpoint. Two police assistants who are thought to have witnessed the … read more
Security forces have arrested a number of Muslim Brotherhood supporters on Friday in several Egyptian cities following clashes between the Islamist group’s supporters and opponents , state news agency MENA reported. In Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, army vehicles were … read more
One person was killed in Alexandria’s Sidi Gaber on Friday when supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with the area’s residents. Security forces fired teargas bombs at the two parties to disperse them, an Aswat Masriya witness reported. A number … read more
A Cairo court of appeals’ judge renewed the detention of former President Mohamed Mursi and his chief of staff pending investigation in charges of collaborating with the Palestinian Hamas movement and smuggling prisoners from Wadi al-Natroun Prison during the January … read more
Egyptian military helicopters on Friday carried out air strikes on Islamist militant positions in Sinai, two days after suicide bombers killed six soldiers in the restive peninsula, security sources said. Apache helicopters targeted hideouts and vehicles used by the militants … read more
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has described the army-installed government’s crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a “brutal crime” and urged Egyptians to resist what he called a campaign against Islam in their country. Security forces have killed hundreds … read more
The United States urged Egypt’s interim authorities on Thursday to lift a nationwide state of emergency in force since mid-August, which Cairo said it is extending for two more months. “We remain opposed, as we have from the beginning, to … read more
Palestinian Territories: Two Egyptian army tanks crossed an initial border fence leading to Gaza for the first time on Thursday, witnesses said, but did not enter the Palestinian territory itself. Gaza’s Hamas rulers neither confirmed nor denied the incursion, but … read more
Hamas rejected on Thursday an allegation aired on Egyptian state television that it has been involved in teaching Islamists in Egypt how to plant bombs in cars and that it had given them landmines. “This is completely incorrect,” Fawzi Barhoum, … read more
Human rights and women’s rights organisations have “turned a blind eye” to violations committed against Islamist women during recent turmoil, the Muslim Brotherhood alleged in a Thursday statement. The statement condemned the performance of such organisations, calling it “inactive” in … read more