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Libya’s Haftar Loses Main Base in Tripoli in Surprise Blow

June 28, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Forces allied to Libya’s internationally recognized government seized the town of Gharyan south of Tripoli, home to the main supply base of eastern forces attacking the capital, witnesses and Tripoli officials said. The takeover of [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Bomb Attack on Tourist Bus Near Pyramids Kills at Least Four People

December 29, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Al-Sisi’s World Youth Form Doesn’t Reflect Sinai’s True Reality

November 13, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Israel Carried Out Strikes in Sinai: Arab Media Outlets

June 26, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Appoints New Defense and Interior Minsters

June 14, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Human Rights Watch: Egypt Ramps Up Home Demolitions in Sinai

May 23, 2018 MEO Staff

Human Rights Watch accused Egypt of mass demolition of homes in the Sinai Peninsula, some of it meant to punish suspected Islamist militants and their families, in a security crackdown in the remote desert region. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Renews the State of Emergency for Another Three Months

January 3, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Why did Egypt’s Security Apparatus fail to Prevent Recent Terrorist Attack?

December 31, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Libya Latest News

Libyan crude pipeline destroyed by armed militants, say officials

December 27, 2017 MEO Staff

Oil industry sources said Libya had lost around 90,000 barrels as a result of the explosion Armed men were responsible for the explosion that damaged a Libyan crude oil pipeline on Tuesday, a military source [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Men Wearing Military Uniform Carried Out the Deadly Assault on the Sufi Mosque

November 29, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

The Western Dessert Attack Questions Al-Sisi’s Power in Fighting Terrorism

November 8, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

The last deadly attack on the police in Egypt’s Western Desert claimed by a new militant group inferred that Egypt’s al-Sisi is incapable of curbing the flow of terrorism that started to expand by opening [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Al-Sisi Appoints New Armed Forces Chief of Staff

October 30, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 Latest News

Egypt Accuses Reuters and the BBC of “Inaccuracy” over Western Desert Attack Casualties

October 25, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

The Egyptian authorities have accused Reuters and the BBC of “inaccurate coverage” of clashes in the western desert between security forces and armed militants in which police officers and conscripts were killed on Friday. Egypt’s State Information [ More … ]

Analysis

How Egypt’s police announce fake stories of clashes with militants after killing forcibly disappeared youths

July 24, 2017 MEO Staff

The Egyptian regime has been subjecting its opponents to enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing since Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The Egyptian Coordination for [ More … ]

Lebanon

Lebanon army to launch campaign against militants near Syria border

July 19, 2017 MEO Staff

An operation is expected to launch against militants near informal refugee camps in the Lebanon’s east, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Lebanese security forces will launch an operation against militants near informal refugee camps [ More … ]

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