The Saudi Coast Guard has reportedly turned away three Egyptian tourist boats near the two Red Sea islands ceded in controversial deal, Tiran and Sanafir. The incident occurred on Tuesday according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. [ More … ]
Saudi Arabian forces have replaced Egyptian troops on Tiran Island, marking the first step in the handover over of two Red Sea islands ceded to the Persian Gulf kingdom in a 2016 border agreement, according [ More … ]
On October 28, at an unexpected move, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dismissed his Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy,but although the reasons behind the decision remain unclear, available information points at recent tensions between two men [ More … ]
The Saudi Embassy in Egypt has granted the Egyptian parliament 1,800 Hajj visas this year for distribution among members of parliament by 3 visas per MP. This came days after the Parliament ratified the transference [ More … ]
Egypt’s pro-Sisi dominated parliament approved Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation agreement on Wednesday in a general session, which means transferring the sovereignty of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia. The general session was held after [ More … ]
The Egyptian Parliament continues for the second day its discussions over the destiny of the Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation in order to hear additional comments and views of experts. The parliament dismissed reviewing previous court verdicts [ More … ]
Sixty political parties and movements as well as a number of public figures said they will confront parliament’s discussion of the maritime demarcation agreement with Saudi Arabia through all peaceful political and constitutional methods. They [ More … ]
The Dokki Prosecution has decided on Tuesday to detain rights lawyer and previous presidential candidate Khaled Ali, after he had been interrogated on charges of making an obscene finger gesture in public in front of the [ More … ]
Khartoum has long said Egypt has been illegally occupying the mineral-rich border region Saudi Arabia has reportedly backed Sudan in its fight to get back a disputed region of land near the Red Sea from [ More … ]
Egypt’s State Council General Assembly nominated their own council head despite a recent amendment reserving that right for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The nomination follows a contentious debate over amending the judiciary laws to give the president [ More … ]
Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud said that Tiran and Sanafir islands belong to Saudi Arabia and this is registered officially in the two Arab states as well as internationally. [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has assured US President Donald Trump that Cairo will hand over the two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, according to a US-based Egyptian diplomat. The source, who spoke on the [ More … ]
The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled that the country’s High Administrative Court (HAC), which ruled in January that the two Islands of Tiran and Sanafir belong to Egypt, had no jurisdiction over the matter. [ More … ]
For the second time in less than a month, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir criticized Egypt during his latest visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), saying that Cairo provided “arms and ammunition to the troops [ More … ]
Despite the positive signal that has been concluded from the latest presidential decree that agreed on King Salman’s development project in Sinai after a period of tension between both countries, however, some recent changes go [ More … ]
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