An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt on Sunday, two security sources said. Most of those injured were [ More … ]
On November 3, the World Youth Forum(WYF) took place for the second consecutive year in Sharm el-Sheikh under the patronage of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. As a specially selected group of Egyptian youth was welcomed in [ More … ]
The Islamic State group’s latest deadly attack in Egypt shows it still has the ability to launch bloody strikes in the country despite pressure from a military offensive in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt’s army has [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swore in a new Cabinet after replacing his defense and interior ministers, a high-level security shake-up that comes as the country is struggling to combat an Islamic State affiliate in the Sinai [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s unsurprising 97 percent win, announced Monday after a widely-derided sham election, asserts the recession of civil environment in Egypt and thus, reaffirms the exponential power of the military’s influence in nearly every facet [ More … ]
After the Egyptians bravely overthrew the military-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they witnessed the first democratically elections in Egypt’s history in 2012. However, the Egyptians’ dream of democracy vanished when the country’s military launched a coup in [ More … ]
Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from January 13 to help tackle “the dangers and funding of terrorism,” state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Last April, Egypt first [ More … ]
The Islamic Sate(ISIS)has claimed responsibility for an attack at a Cairo church that left at least nine people dead.The claim, which was carried by the group’s Aamaq news agency, said Friday’s attack was carried out [ More … ]
An Egyptian military officer was killed and two other people were wounded in a missile attack on a military airport near the town of Arish in the North Sinai region on Tuesday, the army spokesman [ More … ]
After the excessive terrorist attacks on Egypt, Al-Sisi’s counter-terrorism policies have been questioned. The years of violence that followed the military coup since 2013 didn’t end or even contained as Egypt’s military general promised. However, [ More … ]
Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik, who last week announced plans to run for the presidency, was deported from the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, his family said, and arrived in Cairo hours later, as [ More … ]
At least 300 people have died in a militant attack on a mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula in one of the worst terrorist incidents the country has seen in recent years. On Friday, Egypt was [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi has named a new armed forces chief of staff. In a brief statement, the presidency said that al-Sisi has appointed former defense ministry secretary general Mohammed Farid Hegazy to the post. His predecessor [ More … ]
Egypt’s state-run news agency says gunmen have attacked a security checkpoint in Cairo, killing five security forces. Five Egyptian policemen were killed when unknown gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Giza province, south of the [ More … ]
Ankara considers the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) a terrorist group affiliated with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) which has fought an insurgency in southeastern Turkey since 1984. Al-Watan, a daily Egyptian newspaper, conducted [ More … ]
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