CAIRO: Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and SCAF Chief of Staff Sami Anan today met with Nobel Prize Laureate Ahmed Zewail, who won the prize for his work in chemistry.
The three (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian eyewitnesses today said that Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi today visited Tahrir Square in a military vehicle.
Witnesses reported that Tantawi was not shaking (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's military leader, Hussein Tantawi, will meet Thursday with members of an advisory council to appoint the council's president and discuss its work plan, sources told Youm7.
The sources also revealed the names of the council's (...)
Military police forces managed to arrest three criminals as they were trying to kidnap two girls in Giza and terrorizing citizens with knives.
The criminals were terrorizing the citizens, taking money from public transportation drivers and (...)
CAIRO: Chief of Staff and member of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces Sami Anan held a meeting with some of the presidential candidates and political parties' chairmen at the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday.
The meeting was held to discuss the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's State Security Prosecution today extended the detention of political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah for an additional 15 days for investigations.
Abdel Fattah's case was moved from military prosecution to civil prosecution by order of (...)
CAIRO: Head of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi met two presidential candidates today, former Arab League chief Amr Moussa and former director of the IAEA Mohamed el-Baradei.
The sources said Tantawi (...)
The Supreme Council of Armed Forces urged its supporters to abandon their million man protest scheduled for Friday, November 25 in the Abbasia area to preserve the Egyptian people's unity during this crucial time.
The military council stated in (...)
CAIRO: The military police decided to put up barbed wire around the streets leading to the Ministry of Interior and the cross streets that link Mohamed Mahmoud Street to Sheikh Reihan Street, to keep away the protesters and for security forces to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's ruling military council is holding consultations to form a government national salvation government after accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's cabinet, military sources told Youm7.
The sources also said the (...)
CAIRO: Chairman of Egypt's ruling military council Hussein Tantawi met with U.S. central command CENTCOM commander James Mattis on Tuesday November 15.
The meeting included discussions of the latest development in territorial and international (...)
The head of the military judiciary, Adel al-Moursi, said Thursday that Alaa Abdel Fatah was not interrogated as a political activist but as a criminal defendant.
The judge rejected Abdel Fattah's appeal and ruled his 15-day detention would (...)
The Egyptian armed forces sent aircrafts and ships to save the passengers on a ferry which caught fire in the Red Sea while en route from Jordan to Egypt.
The military forces declared an emergency state to save passengers once they were notified (...)
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, held discussions with the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Monday to exchange points of view regarding developments in the region and common relations (...)
Seventy-three demonstrators imprisoned after protestors stormed the Israeli embassy last month were released Monday, after a military court suspended their sentences.
The defendants were accused of assaulting the Israeli embassy, the Saudi (...)
Member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and commander of the Egyptian navy, Mohab Mimmeesh, said that Egypt would decline any international alliances to counter international piracy, unless the UN called to form an international force to (...)