After a meeting in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump praised Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt again during his first overseas trip, saying “safety seems to be very strong” and accepted the invitation to visit Cairo. Trump claimed [ More … ]
Egypt’s Defense Minister Sedky Sobhy met on Wednesday in Cairo with U.S. Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel and his accompanying delegation, where they discussed several issues of mutual [ More … ]
News that Al-Sisi is employing local militia to offer assistance to the Egyptian security forces in their war against ISIS, shows how desperate al-Sisi’s war against ISIS has become, said the Independent in a report. This, [ More … ]
The leaked video that showed the Egyptian soldiers executing eight unarmed detainees, including a minor, in the Sinai peninsula and tried to cover up the extrajudicial killings by claiming they had happened in combat should alarm all those [ More … ]
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was optimistic about improving military ties with Egypt after talks with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, following a period of tension under the Obama administration. The Pentagon stated [ More … ]
Mahmoud Hegazy, Egypt’s army chief of staff, headed to London on Wednesday in his second official visit to UK within two months. Hegazy was accompanied by army military officials, according to an official security source, speaking on condition [ More … ]
Privacy International, human rights watchdog, focused on privacy intrusions by governments and businesses, said that subsequent to their letter of January 2017 to the Italian export authorities which expressed their belief that the export of an internet [ More … ]
Russian security officers have been acting in Egypt since the beginning of 2014, according to an exclusive report by Arabi 21 news website citing special security sources. he source said the Russian officers, along intelligence and [ More … ]
After deadly bombings hit two Coptic churches on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency. However, the new emergency measures are said to grant broad powers to security [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump on April 3, 2017, comes at a time when human rights are at a nadir in Egypt and under threat in the US, according to Human [ More … ]
A campaign has been launched by activists in the United States to highlight the unprecedented human rights violations in Egypt in the run-up to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s White House meeting next week. This week, the White [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s report on extrajudicial killings in Sinai stated that “security forces may have extrajudicially executed at least four and perhaps as many as 10 men in January 2017. They may have arbitrarily detained [ More … ]
Last September, after Trump met Egypt’s military ruler in New York around the same time Hillary Clinton did, he called al- Sisi a “fantastic guy” with whom he enjoyed strong “chemistry.” At the time, Cairo has perceived [ More … ]
Egypt is enhancing its economic relations with Europe amid the country’s need to revive its wrecked economy. In this context, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry traveled to Brussels on a one-day visit where he met with [ More … ]
The Egyptian Intelligence Service has hired two U.S. public relations firms in Washington to lobby on the country’s behalf and boost its image, “the first such engagements by the country’s powerful security apparatus to be [ More … ]
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