Tag: Politics of Egypt

Egypt has created a "national council" to combat the rise of Islamist "terrorism" which has targeted its security forces and ...

Egyptian police have killed two leaders of the Hasam militia in a shootout after intercepting them as they relocated to ...

Assailants killed five Egyptian policemen in a shooting south of Cairo on Friday, in the latest of a series of ...

Everyone thought Tamer El Said had gone mad in the decade it took him to make his film "In the ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church bombings in April by jihadists, in ...

A court in Cairo has recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the killing of Egypt’s ...

Egypt, under fire for muzzling freedom of expression, has blocked access to around 60 news websites and service providers since ...

Kabul city was on lockdown Saturday with armed checkpoints and armoured vehicles patrolling the streets to prevent a repeat of ...

Thousands staged demonstrations for a fifth night running in northern Morocco to demand the release of the leader of a ...

Egypt's government, already accused of muzzling freedom of expression and opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has blocked access to ...

Egypt blocked several media websites on Wednesday including those belonging to the Qatari Al-Jazeera news channel and an opposition television ...

A former Egyptian presidential candidate and rights lawyer who challenged the government for handing over islands to Saudi Arabia was ...

Pope Francis landed in the Egyptian capital on Friday to promote dialogue with Muslims and support the country's embattled Christians ...

An Egyptian court sentenced former interior minister Habib al-Adly to seven years in prison for corruption Saturday, in one of ...

Funerals have been held in Alexandria for victims of one of the two bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt ...

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered ...

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is to visit the White House for the first time since he led the military's ...

US President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who ...

After four years of tension with the United States, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi now has a fan in the ...