TheIraqi protesters who took to the streets on Thursday for the third time this week despite a curfew restricting movement in the capital and several southern cities were faced by fire from security forces. Iraqi [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s security forces have killed 17 pro-Muslim Brotherhood persons in the latest incident of extra judicial killing. The security forces claimed that the people killed were involved in a car bomb near the [ More … ]
A powerful car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Egypt’s capital killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more, Egyptian authorities said, in the deadliest terrorist attack in Cairo in more than two years. [ More … ]
Much of the world is wondering who is really running the show in Sudan now that its president of three decades has been ousted. It’s certainly not the protesters being crushed by the military as [ More … ]
Egypt has rejected the addition of members of its security services to an Italian list of suspects in the murder of the student Giulio Regeni, in a statement that spelled his name incorrectly. “Egyptian law does [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death, including senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood over a sit-in protest in Cairo that ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters. Senior Brotherhood leaders Essam el-Erian [ More … ]
An Egyptian former diplomat was detained by authorities in Cairo on Thursday, just two weeks after calling for a referendum on Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government, said family members. “Security forces took my father, Maasoum Marzouk, [ More … ]
– Mahsoub is living in France for the last years and one of prominent figures opposing Sisi regime in Egypt – Human rights organizations call Italian authorities not to deport the Egyptian opposition figure – [ More … ]
An Egyptian court sentenced a former advisor to Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi along with 13 other people to life in prison for belonging to an illegal group. Abdullah Shehata was an economic advisor [ More … ]
Cairo’s prosecutor’s office decided to open an investigation into a case of a man who died while in custody at the Hadayeq al-Qubba Police Station. On Friday, Ahmed Zalat, a 39-year-old man who was arrested [ More … ]
Surveillance footage handed over to Rome by Egyptian authorities for an investigation into the torture murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo contains “overwritten and unclear material”. Egyptian judicial sources said that the CCTV footage [ More … ]
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 … ]
Gaza’s forces have tightened security in the besieged enclave on Thursday after a suicide bombing targeted Palestinian security forces near the Egyptian border earlier in the day, killing two, including the attacker, and injuring four [ More … ]
Italian student ‘Regeni’ was killed by Egyptian security forces, yet no one was blamed Italy has let its ambassador take up his post in Cairo, citing on Monday progress by Egypt in the investigation of [ More … ]
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has instructed security forces to withdraw from the northern cities of Al Hoceima and Imzouren after violent clashes erupted between police and protesters in the region. “Following royal directives, the law [ More … ]
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