Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the growing military cooperation between Egypt and the US Sunday after receiving four aircraft from the US.
At a ceremony for the F-16s received from the US, Sisi said Egypt looks forward to further (...)
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Sunday held an emergency meeting, the third in three days, to discuss legal procedures after the election of a president.
After the meeting, SCAF head Hussein Tantawi led an Egyptian delegation that (...)
The state of emergency ended Thursday, and the ruling military council said it would not extend the 31-year-old policy of enforcing the Emergency Law in Egypt.
In a statement released by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' media department, the (...)
Aerial and ground searches for a missing border guard patrol continue near Egypt's southern border with Sudan, in coordination with neighboring countries, the Armed Forces Morale Affairs Department said Wednesday.
A military source said on the same (...)
Egypt's ruling military council has reiterated its commitment to a previously announced timeline regarding the handover of power to a democratically elected civilian authority, state television reported on Monday.
“We feel the concerns of the people (...)
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has called on all Egyptians to place their confidence in the armed forces during the critical transition period.
“Those who criticize the armed forces know little,” (...)
Since Hosni Mubarak stepped down, many human rights violations have been committed against Egypt's revolutionaries through excessive use of violence, the European Union's Ambassador in Cairo Marc Franco on Wednesday.
At a press conference Wednesday, (...)
An unnamed government official has accused several prominent political figures of being involved in recent acts of violence, including those outside the cabinet building, which started last Friday.
The official, who made the accusations to Al-Masry (...)
Major General Hamdi Badin, commander of Egypt's military police, said on Wednesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is impartial to all political parties and movements running in the parliamentary elections.
“It is not in the (...)
A military source denied on Tuesday that Sami Anan, deputy head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has been communicating with the head of the Salafi-led Nour Party, Emad Abdel Ghafour, to discuss how the new government will (...)
Egypt has refused financial aid offers from the Gulf and other foreign countries because political conditions have been attached, member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Major General Mahmoud Nasr said during a SCAF seminar (...)
Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzoury, who is tasked with forming the new national salvation government, presented his proposals to Hussein Tantawi, president of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, on Thursday.
The new government would include six (...)
Military Chief of Staff Sami Anan met with a delegation of Coptic bishops on Wednesday at the Defense Ministry to discuss the community's problems.
“The military council holds regular meetings with us to discuss certain problems we face,” said (...)
In a move reminiscent of the Mubarak regime, Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmy, who recently proposed a controversial constitutional principles document, has excluded some chief editors of independent newspapers from helping to form the Supreme (...)
Egypt's navy conducted the biggest live ammunition war games in its history Sunday off the coast of Alexandria.
The event, dubbed "Sea Victory," was attended by the head of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal (...)
A military medical source has denied rumors concerning the death of ousted President Hosni Mubarak as a result of heart failure.
The Russian news website RT quoted unidentified sources as saying that Mubarak “has suffered a heart attack and may even (...)
Egypt's armed forces held secret funeral services for the soldiers killed Sunday during violence at a Coptic protest, a military source told the state-run news agency MENA.
The source said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) did not (...)
The armed forces on Tuesday began a training program called “Victory – 5” to prepare low-ranked officers for Egypt's new security challenges.
Since January, the army has been securing certain government institutions, including the state television (...)
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will not allow the country's next president the constitutional authority to appoint the armed forces' chief, an informed source told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The issue will be the primary subject of (...)
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on Wednesday invited the Egyptian public to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the October War in Tahrir Square, at the Unknown Soldier's Monument in Nasr City, and in other public spaces. The (...)
The head of Egypt's ruling military council on Monday defended the council's decision to broaden the notorious Emergency Law, despite demands from political and revolutionary movements to end the state of emergency.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, (...)
Ten days after his testimony in court, Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has commented that he only said the truth.
“We were not ordered to shoot the demonstrators,” he said. “And we would never do so.”
Tantawi's (...)
The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, on Sunday defended his testimony in the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak.
"We weren't asked to fire at protesters and we'd never do it," Tantawi (...)
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), will inaugurate on Sunday three factories in Fayoum as part of celebrations for the 38th anniversary of Egypt's victory in the 6 October War.
The visit comes six (...)
The Military Prosecution has started investigations into four members of the civilian and military police who were videoed torturing citizens accused of drug dealing and acts of thuggery. The video was uploaded on YouTube.
The incident allegedly (...)