Social media users have been shocked at learning that a female pharmacist that had complained of being exposed to bullying from her colleagues, was accused by the Egyptian Prosecution of belonging to a terrorist organization. [ 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 … ]
Even if the White House is in denial about al-Sisi’s harm to regional instability, Congress shouldn’t be. On the last day of 1977, President Jimmy Carter called U.S. ally Iran “an island of stability in [ More … ]
At least four people have been killed and another 10 injured after a roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists close to the pyramids in Giza. Three of the dead were Vietnamese and [ 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 … ]
General Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Eastern Libya on Monday captured a former Egyptian special forces officer wanted by Cairo for suspected Islamist militant activities, a Libyan military spokesman said, accrding to Reuters. Hisham al-Ashmawy, one [ More … ]
Israeli forces carried out strikes in the Egyptian-ruled Sinai Peninsula recently, targeting militants positions in northern Sinai, witnesses claimed. According to a report by the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed media outlet, Israeli aircraft hit militants targets inside [ More … ]
The UAE has sent F-18 warplanes to enhance its military presence at the Mohamed Naguib Military Base, north-west of Egypt, a military source said. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the New Al-Khaleej that [ 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 … ]
Egyptian authorities said,”Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai,”reported the CNN. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in [ More … ]
“The Egyptian authorities have allowed local Bedouin tribes to play a role fighting armed groups in the northern Sinai Peninsula following last Friday’s mosque attack near the city of Al-Arish that left more than 300 [ More … ]
Right after al-Radwah mosque attack in Sinai, President Trump decried the attack on “innocent and defenseless worshipers” and used the occasion to again denounce extremist Islamist ideology. He also renewed calls for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, [ 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 … ]
Days after media outlets reported the arrival of Khalifa Haftar to Cairo, unknown airstrikes bombed Derna pointing fingers to Egypt’s military to be behind these strikes. The airstrikes killed “15 civilians, mostly women and children, have [ More … ]
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