كان مرض "كوفيد-19" بداية 2020 لا يزال غير معروف بالنسبة لمعظم الناس في أنحاء العالم، لكن الآن توجد نحو 33 مليون حالة إصابة مؤكدة بفيروس "كورونا" في مختلف دول العالم (439,000 في المملكة المتحدة وحدها)، في مقابل حصيلة وفيات عالمية بلغت نحو مليون (...)
كشف موقع "egypt independent" في تقرير نشره يوم الخميس، أن السعودية وقعت اتفاقا مع الفاتيكان يقضي ببناء كنائس للمصلين المسيحيين في المملكة.
وأفادت النسخة الانجليزية لموقع "المصري اليوم" في التقرير، بأنه وفي أعقاب الانفتاح العالمي الثقافي والاجتماعي (...)
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Cairo, alBawaba - Egyptian authorities are to try 292 Islamic State militant group (ISIS) suspects for involvement in plots to assassinate Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
All individuals reported (...)
French police have formally identified the man who drove a truck through Nice and killed more than 80 people.
The man, who had previously been said by unofficial sources to be a 31-year-old French-Tunisian man, drove for hundreds of metres along the (...)
An EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York has reportedly been delayed over security fears after another plane was hijacked.
It was unclear whether the delay to MS985 was directly related to the incident unfolding in Cyprus, where negotiations were (...)
A man has been filmed climbing out of the window of a hijacked plane as negotiations continue with a man claiming to have a suicide vest.
It was unclear how many people remained on EgyptAir flight 181 as it stood on the tarmac at an airport in (...)
Al-Qaeda has acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, The Independent has learned, which were used to shoot down an Emirati fighter jet in a dangerous escalation of the civil war raging in Yemen.
A French-made Mirage jet, flying in the air (...)
Up to 40,000 people in the besieged Syrian settlement of Madaya have been forced to turn to leaves and flower petals to stay alive after eating all of the town's stray dogs and cats.
Photographs and videos taken inside the former holiday resort show (...)
A bomb has reportedly been found in a van parked outside Bulgaria's largest airport.
Authorities evacuated part of Sofia Airport, in the country's capital, today after an alert was raised about the suspicious vehicle
"An explosive device had been (...)
The Isis militant group has released the new edition of its propaganda magazine, in which it claims to reveal how it brought down the Russian jet over Sinai.
The edition of the "Dabiq" magazine, published in English by an Isis media arm, claims the (...)
A French official has named the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks as a Belgian man called Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
He was reportedly involved in previously thwarted train and church attacks.
RTL radio in France reported that the 27-year-old (...)
David Cameron has announced that Britain will take in "thousands more" Syrian refugees after an outpouring of public support for the UK to accept its fair share of those fleeing persecution.
The Prime Minister, speaking after a meeting with the (...)
Slovakia has announced it will only accept Christian migrants when it takes in Syrian refugees under an EU relocation plan.
Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Metik said the Eastern European nation will accept 200 Christian migrants from camps in (...)
A video has emerged of Jeremy Corbyn equating the actions of Isis with those of the US military, and saying that "some of what they have done is quite appalling."
The Islington North MP and front runner in the Labour leadership race appeared on (...)
IS has used the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Dabiq to suggest the group is expanding so rapidly it could buy its first nuclear weapon within a year.
The hyperbolic article, which the group attributes to the British hostage John Cantlie, (...)
A former soldier from Scotland who has been fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Isis in northern Iraq said that he was helping to fight "the most disgusting people since the Nazis."
Alan Duncan, who served with the Royal Irish regiment, said (...)
Just weeks before he was killed by Isis militants in Syria, the former British soldier wrote to a friend that he hoped his mum might be "a bit proud" of her son.
Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, a former Royal Marine from Barnsley in North Yorkshire, is (...)
Four more pupils at the east London school attended by three teenage girls who travelled to Syria are being monitored over fears they may also have been considering leaving Britain to join Islamic State.
The Independent understands that a total of (...)
Boko Haram is likely to plot attacks on the West, including Britain, according to a Nigerian government minister who warned that the Islamist group terrorising his country may compete with its global jihadi counterparts to commit atrocities (...)
The FBI has arrested a 17-year-old Virginia teenager for his alleged role in helping a man get to Syria to join Isis, according to a report from the Washington Post.
The high school student was arrest at his house in Woodbridge, Virginia, according (...)
A former British soldier is thought to have become the first UK national to be killed fighting against Isis in Syria.
The former British marine, named last night by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, is from (...)
With Facebook crossing the one billion user-line, Socialbakers has released the results of statistics showing the most Facebook-addicted countries on Facebook. Egypt came in second on the list.
While the US is one of the most populous countries with (...)
Interim President Adly Mansour has reformed a law dealing with criminal procedures in Egypt, allowing criminal and cassation courts to extend periods of detention without there being a maximum limit.
The new amendment will affect cases where the (...)
The United States has criticised the arrest of Gehad al-Haddad, spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood, condemning it as “politicised," Al-Ahram reported.
State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki criticized the arrest. "We are opposed to all (...)