Armed assailants in Sinai hijacked a police car Wednesday evening, the Anadolu news agency has reported. According to the Turkish news agency, the car was taken after fire was exchanged between the assailants and police forces. The attack took place … read more
Presidential aide Pakinam El-Sharkawy contacted members of the opposition group the National Salvation Front and asked them to join the seventh national dialogue meeting with the presidency, a source from the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) told Ahram Online. The … read more
The Islamic Jihad movement has called on the Freedom and Justice Party’s Essam al-Erian to resign from his role as advisor to the president and apologize to the Egyptian people for his statement asking Egyptian Jews to leave Israel and … read more
Yasser Ali, presidential spokesperson, announced Wednesday that President Morsi’s aide for foreign affairs, Essam Haddad, is currently on a two-day visit to the UAE to deliver a message to Sheikh Khalifa, UAE head of state. Ali added that Haddad would … read more
Former Egyptian vice president Mahmoud Mekki announced that opposition coalition National Salvation Front (NSF) will participate in the next round of National Dialogue talks on 9 January, in a news conference Tuesday. The series of dialogue meetings were launched by … read more
A source within the Muslim Brotherhood, speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity, said that the majority of members of the group’s Guidance Bureau are inclined to run in the next parliamentary elections without allying with other forces, especially … read more
Hundreds of people from the Ababda and Bashaira tribes staged protests in Aswan after a man from the Bashaira tribe died in the Aswan police station detention room. The man was arrested with six others and charged with illegally digging … read more
Muslim Brotherhood leaders have held secret meetings with members of the most influential families and tribes in Upper Egypt to secure their political support in return for parliamentary seats, ex-Brotherhood member Tharwat El-Kharabawi told Sada El-Balad TV network Tuesday. “Mubarak … read more
Egyptian ambassador Menha Mahrous Bakhoum was involved in an argument with police when she was asked to undergo security checks to enter a departure terminal on 29 December, where she was seeing off members of her family. Cypriot media reported … read more
President Mohamed Morsy’s fact finding committee have said in a report that the president should open investigations into the existence of “Brotherhood group 95” and whether or not it has been involved in acts of violence against anti-Hosni Mubarak protesters … read more