Mansour El-Essawy, Egypt's interior minister, has decided to appoint General Hamed Abdallah to the position of assistant to the minister and head of the newly created National Security apparatus, set up to replace the dismantled and disgraced State (...)
Minister of Interior Mansour Essawi took a step in the direction of the demands of the 25 January Revolution in Egypt by dissolving the State Security Investigations apparatus and all its affiliates, branches and offices across the country. The (...)
Today the Minister of the Interior, Mahmoud Wagdy, made limited changes to the senior personnel within his department. The most significant changes were assigning Hesham Abu Gheda as manager of state security investigation and making Atef Abu Shadi (...)
Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the Foreign Minister to use diplomatic means to request the freezing of the assets of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family in foreign countries.
The freeze applies to Mubarak, his wife, Suzanne, his (...)
Mahmoud Abdel Baset Hamid, a 22 year old factory worker, describes in a phone interview with Ahram Online the tragic events that took place on the Assiut-Cairo number 979 train.
"When the train stopped at Samalout station, I noticed a policeman (...)
A gunman boarded a train in Samalout, southern Egypt and opened fire on Tuesday, killing a Copt and wounding five others -- four women and a man, security officials told Ahram Online.
The gunman, who was in uniform and identified as policeman (...)
Police investigators revealed details of the Two Saints Church bombing, saying the explosives were made locally but involved the largest payload since the Sharm El-Sheikh terrorist attacks
Egypt's Prosecutor General is in Alexandria today to oversee (...)
DNA analysis of the remains of the suspected bomber responsible for the murderous New Year's Eve attack on the Two Saints Church in Alexandria indicate that the suspect was male, 23-25 years of age, a police source told Ahram Online.
Police believe (...)
A police source told Ahram Online that the two cars parked in front of the Saints Church in Alexandria were not the source of the explosion that killed 21 people and injured more than 70.
According to the source, who spoke on customary condition (...)
A car bomb exploded outside a church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria at midnight, killing21 people and severely injuring many others, including 8 Muslims, among whom werethe police officer and three men guarding the church,security sources (...)
A car bomb exploded outside a church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria at midnight, killing21 people and injuring 79others, including 8 Muslims, among whom werethe police officer and three men guarding the church,security sources toldAhram (...)
In a meeting yesterday, Arab ministers of justice and interior agreed to renew the Arab anti-terror agreement.
The meeting, which lasted one day, brought together 14 Arab interior ministers and 17 justice ministers, who all agreed on what they (...)
Egypt's State Security prosecutor's office announced yesterday charges against an Egyptian man arrested for his alleged role in an Israeli spy ring. At the conference authorities said that the alleged spy, Tariq Abdel Razeq Hassanhas been referred (...)
General Prosecutor Abdel Megeed Mahmoud decided to release 42 of those arrested in the Omraneya violence, increasing the total number of those released to 116.
Mahmoud also decided to keep another 42 copts detained for an additional 15 days, (...)