Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry calledTuesday for a "collective" approach battling the "barbaric" Islamic State (ISIS) which has forcefully taken large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Speaking to reporters while on a state visit to France, (...)
Six militants were killed and another ten were arrested by Egyptian security forces on late Sunday in the North Sinai border town of Rafah.
Security forces also destroyed a number of homes and other spaces used as dens by militants, according to (...)
Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Mohamed Badie faced trial on Saturday for inciting the killing of protesters at the Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters on 30 June, and was sentenced to life in prison for murder and attempted murder on 23 (...)
Monday marked one year behind bars for United States Citizen Mohamed Soltan after being arrested on 25 August 2013 for acting as media liaison for the Muslim Brotherhood at the mass sit-in last summer outside the Rabaa Al-Adaweya Mosque in Cairo's (...)
The public execution of an Egyptian man in a Libya football stadium illustrates "Libya's descent into lawlessness," said human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
An amateur video, released on social media websites, purportedly shows the (...)
The 72-hour ceasefire deal between Gaza and Israel, which started Tuesday morning, has provided a window for humanitarian aid through Egypt's Rafah border crossing—the besieged Gaza Strip's only border crossing not controlled by Israel.
The Rafah (...)
The trial of leading Muslim Brotherhood members in the Cairo Criminal Court for the alleged for torture of two police officers last summer was postponed on Monday to 10 August.
The hearing was delayed in order for the defence to access evidence, (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood and the newly-declared Islamic State (Isis) "no doubt" share a number of similarities, said the Ministry of Religious Endowments.
In a Friday statement, the Ministry criticised the Muslim Brotherhood—of which deposed president (...)
A car bomb exploded in rural Giza early Wednesday morning killing three, and another attempted car bombing was thwarted by police shortly after.
The men killed were inside the car as it detonated on accident in the village of Kafr El-Sharfa, (...)
The Egyptian government has not done enough to guarantee the poor's rights to adequate housing since the adoption of the new constitution earlier this year, said the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
In a Tuesday statement the rights (...)
On Monday the State Information Service, on behalf of the Ministry of Justice's International Cooperation Department, defended the 23 June verdict that sentenced three journalists to prison for 7 to 10 years.
Of the 20 defendants in the drawn out (...)
Egypt received a late invitation from the United States to the US-Africa Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in Washington, DC from 4 to 6 August.
Egypt was formally invited on 8 July, according to a spokesman from the US Embassy in Cairo.
"The (...)
A minibus driver is accused of assaulting and raping a Russian tourist in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Friday night, then leaving the victim and her husband by the side of the road.
While returning from Sohour — the late night Ramadan meal (...)
On Wednesday Amnesty International denied reports that it had been invited to assist the 30 June Fact-Finding Committee, the government-backed body tasked with investigating violence since the fall of former president Mohamed Morsi.
Multiple media (...)
On Monday President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Mohamed Fayek, president of the government-backed National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to discuss ways to improve personal and political freedom in Egypt, and the state of the country's (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim and several other high-ranking security officials Tuesday morning at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis to address security challenge facing Egypt.
A Ministry of (...)
Journalist Abdel Rahman Shaheen was sentenced to three years in prison and a EGP 10,000 fine on Tuesday.
Charges against Shaheen, the Suez-based journalist, include inciting and participating in violence, according to state-run MENA.
Shaheen (...)
On Tuesday the Administrative Court ruled against the ban on the Islamic-based charity organisation Al-Gameya Al-Shareya, which had its assets frozen on 25 December for its supposed ties to the banned-Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohamed Ibrahim, defence (...)
Three Al Jazeera journalists were handed harsh prison sentences on Monday morning in the Cairo Criminal Court based on accusations of aiding a terrorist group, tarnishing Egypt's image abroad, threatening national security, and "creating a terrorist (...)
The conviction and sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists and 15 other defendants has provoked an international firestorm of outrage and disbelief, both from nations and from human rights groups.
Of the 20 defendants, the trial centred mainly on (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court heard the closing arguments Monday from the defence team for 13 students and one charity worker being tried alongside several journalists for supporting the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, announcing that the verdict will be (...)
Three protesters were killed on Friday in Cairo and Qaliubiya, and 20 were wounded – most of them by bullets and birdshot – clashed after demonstrators with security forces, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health.
Eight were injured and 53 (...)
The National Council for Women (NCW) panned the lack of female members of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi newly-appointed in a Wednesday statement.
According to the NCW chairperson Mervat Tellawy, the appointment of only four female ministers in a (...)
After more than 306 days in prison without charge and 147 days on hunger strike, on Monday night the prosecutor general's office ordered the release of Al Jazeera journalist Abdallah Elshamy, who was arrested during the violent dispersal of the (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court Monday heard the closing arguments from the defence team for 13 students and one charity worker being tried alongside several journalists for supporting the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, announcing that the verdict would be (...)