Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised Israel on Tuesday warmer ties if it accepts efforts to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, urging Israeli leaders not to waste an opportunity to bring security and hope to a troubled region.
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 51 people to two years in prison for taking part in protests last month, officials said.
JAFFA, Israel – Numerous complaints about “outrageously dressed” tourists have been registered in Tiran and Sanafir, the two Red Sea islands Egypt transferred to Saudi Arabia last month.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he threatened to send Israeli commandos into Cairo in 2011 to rescue a number of Israeli security staff besieged by demonstrators who had stormed the mission.
Egypt will use its influence as chair of the UN Security Council in May to defend the interests of the Palestinian people, the presidency said on Monday.
The Egyptian Ministry of Education has announced the introduction of jail terms for cheaters ahead of the forthcoming high school final exams, as well a more strenuous vetting process for invigilators.
The Guardian reports: Security forces in Egypt have used teargas to disperse small protests against the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, witnesses have said, deterring what opposition groups had expected to be a day of large demonstrations against his rule. This
Contents: Egypt arrests journalists in cafes and homes ahead of Monday protests; Egypt’s al-Sisi warns of ‘chaos’ in Monday’s Sinai Liberation Day protests; Sudan and Tunisia prepare for simultaneous protests in solidarity
Islamic fundamentalist organization Hamas has been building up its security apparatus near the Egyptian and Israeli border in an attempt improve ties with Cairo, AFP reported Saturday.
Contents: Egypt-Saudi deal for Red Sea bridge triggers massive protests in Cairo; Migrant traffic from Libya to Italy surges; Czech Republic debates adopting the short name ‘Czechia’
Hamas began deploying additional forces on the Gaza border with Egypt on Thursday, the interior ministry said, in an apparent effort to ease Cairo’s concerns about security. “National security forces started today to increase the number of its troops and
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the airport in Ankara on Monday, as the Saudi monarch is en route to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul later this week.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s declared intention to hand over control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia has kicked off a storm of vociferous opposition, laced with stinging satire, and dealt a blow to the pride of many
Contents: Egypt, Saudi Arabia to build a huge bridge where Moses parted the Red Sea; Saudi Arabia will no longer provide ‘free money’ to Egypt
Egypt’s state-run news agency says the top judicial disciplinary council has rejected appeals by 31 judges who were forced into early retirement for rejecting the military overthrow of an Islamist president.
An Egyptian court has sentenced three teenage Coptic Christians to five years in jail for insulting Islam in a video posted online last year.
Egypt finally conceded that “terrorism” was behind a Russian passenger plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula last October that killed all 224 tourists aboard.
Ynetnews reports: Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Haim Koren gave a rare interview to Egyptian journalists in his residence in Cairo on Tuesday, and surprisingly, the transcript of the interview was published, and what’s more, the journalists were not afraid to
The Egyptian military has started rebuilding destroyed Christian churches and properties, years after the Muslim Brotherhood tore the buildings down.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The defense establishment is furious with Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz after learning of the comments he made on Saturday concerning security cooperation with Egypt. Steinitz, speaking at a cultural event in Beersheba, said
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State has been exploiting mounting divisions within Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – which culminated in the movement’s failure to organize a meaningful protest on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution last week – to recruit
The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of its journalists.
TEL AVIV – The head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church declared that Christians love Muslims and no one defends Islam more than Arab Christians, MEMRI reported. In an interview earlier this month with the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Gregory
Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday. Preceding him is a column in Egypt’s Al Ahram newspaper, where the president notes that “the threat of terrorism is notably on the rise,” making “win-win cooperation” more important than ever between the two nations.
January 25 will mark the fifth anniversary of the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and the Tahrir Square uprising that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power, only to be deposed themselves in turn.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi celebrated Christmas with Coptic Christians, issuing a speech in which he pledged to rebuild churches torn down by Islamists.
JAFFA, Israel – Hamas security forces fixed surveillance cameras near the Gaza-Egypt border after Egyptian troops shot dead a young Gazan who swam into the country’s territorial waters. The cameras are meant to “document the Egyptian forces’ human rights violations,”
JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian government and media have stepped up efforts to quell potential riots on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi fears that the Muslim Brotherhood will exploit today’s anniversary to stage riots against
As the fifth anniversary of the social media-driven Arab Spring uprisings approaches, Egyptian authorities have arrested three influential Facebook administrators, accusing them of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. On Saturday Egypt’s Interior Ministry charged two men and one woman,
During a speech marking the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi again made historic remarks speaking to Islamic scholars about the need for religious freedom and acceptance of all religions.
TEL AVIV – At a UN forum in Geneva, leaders of Egypt’s Coptic Christian community called for the abolition of an “exploitative” blasphemy law, but praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for saving them from the oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A local Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate has claimed responsibility for a gun and bomb attack Tuesday on a hotel in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula that reportedly left seven people dead, including two judges, and at least a dozen more wounded.
Growing confidence among Western intelligence agencies that a terrorist bomb brought down the Russian Metrojet airliner over Sinai on Oct. 31 is not being received well by some in Egypt, where tourism is a major part of the economy.
Soon after the Russians appeared to begin taking the possibility of terrorism in the Metrojet crash more seriously, placing restrictions on flights into Egypt, Egyptian authorities conceded that a bomb was the most plausible explanation for the crash.
Russia and Egypt are disputing suggestions from American and British intelligence that a bomb, planted by ISIS or an affiliated group, brought down a Russian jetliner over the Sinai Peninsula.
The administration of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month extension to a state of emergency it imposed on parts of the northern Sinai Peninsula as the country’s military launches counterterrorism operations against jihadists in the region.
An anonymous hacking group attacked the website of the Egyptian presidency and took it offline for a short time on Thursday, according to a report at Al-Arabiya News.
In the coming days, construction will commence on a new church in Egypt dedicated to the martyred Coptic Christians beheaded by the Islamic State in Libya in February.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly debate on Monday to talk about the region’s ongoing battles against the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi presented a plan Monday afternoon at the UN General Assembly to battle regional extremism.
