One prisoner was killed and three others were injured on Tuesday as they attempted to escape from the 10th of Ramadan City police station.
More than 47 prisoners rioted, smashed the gates of their cells and assaulted policemen responsible for (...)
Nearly 50 people with firearms and bladed weapons stormed the anti-narcotics police office in Sharqiya, north of Cairo, and freed a suspected drug dealer on Sunday.
A security official who requested anonymity said that the attackers, who were (...)
Presidential hopeful and former ambassador Abdallah al-Ashaal fiercely criticized Amr Moussa and Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Thursday.
He said that the Mossad had appointed Moussa as foreign minister and left him ten years in the office, the (...)
The governor of Sharqiya on Tuesday honored Ahmed al-Shahat, the young man who pulled down the Israeli flag from the Israel Embassy and replaced it with the Egyptian flag during anti-Israel protests on Saturday.
Protesters have been staging (...)
Sharqiya Governor Azazy Ali Azazy on Monday honored an Egyptian man who climbed the building that houses the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and tore down the Israeli flag during a protest Sunday.
Ahmed al-Shahat, 23, has been nicknamed the "Flagman" for (...)
Police and army forces on Wednesday dispersed railway workers protesting in Sharqiya Governorate, northeast of Cairo.
More than 2000 railway maintenance workers protested in Zagazig Wednesday morning to demand the removal of Egyptian National (...)
Clashes erupted between police and Salafis on Wednesday in the Delta Governorate of Sharqiya after police shot a Salafi man while trying to arrest him.
The police were chasing Adel al-Ihrazy, who had been sentenced to one year in prison. The man was (...)
Cairo University President Hosam Kamel told Al-Masry Al-Youm he respects the recent judicial ruling to remove state security from university campuses. He emphasized the necessity of striking a balance between executing the court order and preserving (...)
Female students at Al-Azhar University in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig on Sunday staged a sit-in on campus, claiming they had been assaulted by campus security after refusing to submit to body searches.
Police eventually dispersed the protesters, (...)
A ship hijacked by Somali pirates earlier this week has arrived in Somalia in order to avoid a European anti-piracy task force in the area, according to sources at Red Sea Navigation (RSN), the company that operates the ship.
The same sources said (...)