Maher Abu Sabha, head of the border crossings authority in the Hamas-controlled Gaza government, said that he received a notification from Egypt on the closure of Rafah crossing, Egypt' state-run news agency MENA reported on Friday.
"The decision (...)
US political figures frown on allegations against State Secretary deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin of having links to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood,aiding their infiltration of US government
Republican Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann made accusations (...)
President-elect Mohamed Morsy took the presidential oath in Tahrir Square on Friday, standing before a crowd of thousands of protesters who are rallying to demand the military's exit from political life. In a speech following the oath, Morsy said he (...)
Nigerian army officials have announced a shake-up in assignments for some generals commanding the military force that remains a powerful force in this young democracy.
In a statement released Wednesday, the army said it assigned 29 major generals (...)
Egypt on Monday released the names of 19 Americans who face trial over foreign funding of NGOs, a case that has soured US-Egypt relations.
One of the 19 is Samuel LaHood, son of US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, according to a statement from (...)
Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri will on Saturday pay Cairo an official visit.
Hariri's media bureau released a statement Thursday saying that he will be meeting with Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and several officials to (...)
The constitutional amendments proposed on Saturday overall meet many of the current popular demands, and are mostly reasonable, said Essam al-Erian, a leading Muslim Brotherhood member.
Still, he said, there are certain points with which the (...)
An Al-Qaida-linked group in Gaza was behind the New Year's Day suicide bombing that killed at least 21 Christians and wounded about a hundred outside a church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the country's interior minister Habib (...)