Three people have died and three others have been wounded in a gunfight between two families – one Muslim and the other Christian – in the southern city of Sohag.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting started on Monday, when a Christian hit a Muslim with (...)
Prosecutors in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag this week ordered the detention of a police officer for 15 days pending investigation on charges that he had stolen ten pistols from local police station.
Prosecutors also ordered the detention of a (...)
Manuscripts written by Refaa al-Tahtawi, a renowned 19th century Arab scholar, face decay due to infestation, warned Bahaa Hassanein, professor of antiquities and museum maintenance at Souhag University.
The professor said that al-Tahtawi's (...)
Egyptian police were imposing tight security measures on Wednesday in the village of Demnos, Souhag, following a fight between a Muslim family and another Christian family on Tuesday.
Five persons were injured in the clash, with one undergoing (...)
Angry residents of the village of Beni Helal in Sohag blocked the Cairo-Aswan agricultural road on Sunday night after four villagers--including a woman and her young child--were injured in a collision between a taxi and an unlicensed (...)
The Environment Ministry has received numerous complaints from residents of the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag about cases of asphyxiation resulting from the "black cloud"--popularly attributed to the mass burning of rice stalks by farmers--which has (...)
Emergency response went into effect in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag Thursday morning after a fuel barge capsized in the Nile near the city of Naga Hammadi Wednesday night. The alert was made in anticipation of the possibility that the (...)
More than 10,000 residents of Akhmim village in Sohag staged riots in front of local municipal council headquarters on Tuesday.
Disturbances erupted after the governor of Sohag issued a decision prohibiting residents from burying their dead in the (...)