Armed forces Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazi joined 21 other military commanders at last week's conference, organised by the US Defence Department, to coordinate international efforts to fight ISIS.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin (...)
Tuesday was Navy Day and to mark the occasion the Egyptian navy conducted extensive exercises involving frigates, missile boats, frogmen and naval commandos.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, attended the (...)
Last week's visit to Egypt by Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni concluded with the signing of a military cooperation agreement.
Al-Thinni met with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and, at the Defence Ministry's (...)
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Egypt on Saturday with the goal of forming a broad coalition to combat Islamic State (IS) militants. Kerry met with Arab League Chief Nabil Al-Arabi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri in Cairo.
Two days (...)
There was a palpable sense of excitement during the two-hour journey to Ismailia in a convoy of buses flanked by military vehicles. On arrival we were welcomed by Admiral Muhab Mameesh, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority.
“The visit has been (...)
Three weeks after the start of construction work on the new Suez Canal waterway, the armed forces engineering corps announced that the remains of a missing Egyptian soldier have been found near Ismailia.
“As the workers were digging the waterway, (...)
The US administration is continuing its cat-and-mouse game with the Egyptian army, a further sign of strained relations between the US and Egypt since the ousting of former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of State (...)
A Russian military delegation arrives in Egypt today to resume negotiations over an arms deal that will significantly expand military cooperation between Cairo and Moscow.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met President Vladimir Putin on 12 August (...)
“We are proud of our government. We never expected to see such improvements in such a short time,” Mohammed Al-Gaa'fary said as he stepped off a flight bringing home Egyptians fleeing the violence in Libya.
Al-Gaa'fary, 55, appeared almost baffled (...)
More than 10,000 Egyptians working in Libya who sought refuge in neighbouring Tunisia are waiting to return to Egypt. Tunisia is restricting entrance to foreigners fleeing the violence in Libya to those guaranteed an immediate transfer to their home (...)
Civil aviation seemed to be courting chaos this week as Cairo International Airport announced it would restrict its summer operating schedule in an attempt to cut electricity consumption, Salafist groups threatened to lay siege to airport terminals (...)
US politicians have once again seized upon a domestic spending bill in an attempt to tighten control on how Egypt uses the $1.3 billion in military aid it receives from Washington.
Last week five senators — four Republicans and one Democrat — (...)
Press reports accusing three senior Hamas figures of planning the murder of 16 Egyptian soldiers in Rafah last August have cast a spotlight on the increasingly tense triangle between Hamas, the government of President Mohamed Morsi and the Egyptian (...)
Six months after graduating from the Faculty of Commerce at Zagazig University Omar Morsi, the third of President Mohamed Morsi's four sons, was appointed to the Holding Company for Airports, an affiliate to the Civil Aviation Ministry. Such was the (...)
Seven months after returning to barracks, and following a transition period supervised by the military which many say was seriously bungled, the army is back on the streets.
“I was determined not to use exceptional measures but now I have to and (...)
Twenty-six civilians are facing military trial on charges of damaging army property at Al-Qursaya Island near Giza during last November's clashes, with activists defending them insisting that civilians should no longer face military trial.
The (...)
Decree 203, issued by Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi two weeks ago, restricts ownership of land and real estate in Sinai to Egyptian citizens, with the added condition that the owner also be the child of two Egyptian citizens.
The decree's (...)
Egyptians who went to polling stations to vote on the new constitution were surprised to see army soldiers dressed in a new uniform.
“We thought they hired a special security forces to secure the voting. We then recognised they are our army (...)
Egyptian Minister of Defence Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has banned the ownership of property in “strategic areas” of military importance, ending a controversy over whether Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a strategic area, has been targeted as a possible (...)
On 8 December the Armed Forces issued a statement clarifying their stand towards the ongoing conflict between Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and civil forces.
“The Armed Forces have been monitoring developments with growing concern,” (...)
As the Constituent Assembly tasked with writing Egypt's new constitution was putting the draft constitution to the vote during its final session on 29 November, two military commanders representing the armed forces and the military police were (...)
Violent clashes broke out early Sunday between the army and hundreds of families residing on a small island on the river Nile in Munib district in southern Cairo. The reason for the fighting was to evacuate families who had illegally seized the (...)
EgyptAir's first veiled flight attendants served passengers aboard a scheduled flight to Saudi Arabia. On Saturday the carrier also permitted veiled female attendants to serve two return flights, one from Jeddah, the second from Madinah.
Some 250 (...)
President Morsi attends naval exercises following a spate of criticism directed at former military commanders, reports Amirah Ibrahim
President Mohamed Morsi joined Defence Minister Lieutenant General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday at the navy (...)
Celebrations of the victory in the October War this year will be somewhat different from usual, reports Amirah Ibrahim
For almost four decades, Egyptians have been used to witnessing annual celebrations in October to mark the anniversary of the 1973 (...)