Egypt’s highest appellate court upheld the death sentence against nine people over the 2015 killing of the country’s prosecutor-general. The Court of Cassation confirmed the penalty after being convicted in the death of Hisham Barakat, [ More … ]
A video of an enraged tuk-tuk driver unloading on the state of Egypt’s flagging economy went viral on Thursday, underlining growing popular discontent in the country over shortages of food staples and broader business malaise, [ More … ]
Muslim mob armed with gas cannisters, rocks and bird shots allegedly attacked Christians over rumors of a new church led to the destroying of a village in Saft el-Khirsa, 180 km south of Cairo, according [ More … ]
The Egyptian security forces detained 9 members of the same family when they didn’t find the wanted person. On July 17, 2016, the security forces stormed the house of Ashry Mohamed Ismail in a village [ More … ]
A number of constructions of Russia’s iconic MiG aircraft are on the way, as reported by the Moscow Times. The company is now building 46 brand-new MiG-29M fighter jets in a contract reported to be worth [ More … ]
Egypt raises the military pensions for the seventh time in three years since al-Sisi reached power in a military coup in 2013. Middle East Monitor reported that Egypt’s parliament approved a 10 % rise in military and [ More … ]
Some of Egypt’s pro-military media jumped the gun in their reporting on Friday night’s attempted coup in Turkey, declaring it a success and welcoming the overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported ABC News. At least three [ More … ]
Three weeks after the military coup against the first democratically President Mohamed Morsi, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi asked the Egyptians in 2013 to give the army the mandate to fight terrorism. Al-Sisi addressed the Egyptian public [ More … ]
A Few days after the Egyptian FM’s latest visit to Israel, the Israeli International Radio’s Arabic website announced that David Govrin, the new Israeli ambassador to Egypt will begin serving in Cairo on Sunday. Govrin had worked [ More … ]
Turkey has started mending its foreign relations with neighboring countries, including Israel and Russia after deterioration for a period of time. In this context, many observers predicted that Egypt would be one of the countries that [ More … ]
After a long delay, Egypt’s Court has postponed a verdict in the mass trial of Irish juvenile Ibrahim Halawa and 493 other prisoners, who were arrested after the military coup in 2013. There were expectations [ More … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid stated that Cairo is uncomfortable over what he described as “Continuous Contradiction” in the Turkish statements and stances; as well as the “swing” between showing the will to [ More … ]
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