Egypt’s GDP has risen by 5.5 percent, with inflation declining to 11.3 percent. Nevertheless, the Egyptian people have not benefited from this positive trend and have grown increasingly frustrated in recent years. It is clear [ More … ]
The controversy over the videos posted on Facebook by the Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali, who worked for 15 years with the army, turned into an electronic war between regime opponents and supporters of [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s two-year investigation documented crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians. Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are [ More … ]
Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament voted to lift term limits from president, allowing Sisi to rule till 2034 Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has moved one step closer to staying in power until 2034 after parliament advanced a bill that [ More … ]
In the context of his keenness to have full control of the military institution, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi keeps harassing army officers and conducting frequent changes in the ranks of military commanders so that none [ More … ]
BY: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Introduction The Egyptian parliament has recently ratified legislation to establish a sovereign fund called the “Egypt Fund”. The fund comes after government promises since 2016. Dr. Ashraf Al-Arabi, Minister of Planning, was [ More … ]
The Turkish military said Sunday it had taken complete control of the Afrin town center in northwestern Syria. “The Afrin town center was taken under control by Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army,” the [ More … ]
Egypt’s Grand Mufti has issued a new Fatwa that permits spending the Zakat funds on the Army and Police forces In a provocative fatwa that has sparked the anger and derision on social networking sites, [ More … ]
The attack was one of the deadliest against the military in an insurgency that has killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers in the past four years Egypt held funerals on Saturday for at least 21 [ More … ]
The Egyptian military also said it killed 40 militants as it clashed with assailants in North Sinai Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where [ More … ]
Iraqi forces and militias deployed to fight the Islamic State group from Mosul, ISIS last stronghold in Iraq, have abused civilians according to The New Arab news website. In a team of seven foreign reporters [ More … ]
The Sudanese government forces have captured the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC) Nimer Abdel Rahman and other leading rebels. Also, the group confirmed the killing of its commander Mohamed Abdelsalam (aka Tarada) [ More … ]
Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi on Wednesday ordered the army to protect phosphate, gas and oil production facilities after protests aimed at disrupting output broke out in the south of the country. It is the [ More … ]
Israeli army forces razed lands Wednesday morning in northern Gaza Strip, while Israeli naval forces opened fire on Gaza fishermen, also off the coast of northern Gaza, according to local sources. Witnesses said that Israeli [ More … ]
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