The fall of 15 military personnel during an attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai cast light anew on the genuine threat that terrorism poses to Egypt and the world.
Mohamed Amin noted that the wheel of life did not stop in Egypt. The (...)
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Monday the Cairo Criminal Court's previous ruling to add 241 defendants to the terrorist list.
They were accused of forming a group in violation of the law, planning to kill police and army personnel, and (...)
A total of 16 militants were killed in North Sinai governorate on Tuesday morning during two raids by Egypt's security forces, according to the ministry of interior.
This came after the National Security Apparatus identified two terrorist hideouts, (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held a meeting on Sunday night with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
The meeting came a day after the Arish attack that targeted a security (...)
Egyptian writers followed several topics in Sunday newspaper issues, including the Saturday terrorist attack in Al-Arish which killed and injured 15 military personnel, according to the military. Seven militants were also killed in the clash, the (...)
Seven suspected terrorists were killed in a fire exchange with security forces in Al-Arish, North of Sinai, according to an interior ministry statement.
The security forces launched a raid on a terrorist hideout in a remote area in Al-Arish, the (...)
The Cairo Military Court referred on Monday eight of the defendants in the case known as "the Assassination Attempt of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and the Saudi former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef" to the Grand Mufti of Egypt for the (...)
An Egyptian military court has issued preliminary death sentences for eight people convicted of attempting to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Saudi Arabia's former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in 2014.
The court has referred the (...)
Reaching out to Germany
PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received in Cairo on Sunday German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral economic relations. Presidency Spokesman Bassam Radi (...)
North Sinai has been a theatre of battles between the Egyptian security forces and the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated militants in recent years, who were blamed for killing hundreds of police and military officers, Christians, and even Muslims.
A (...)
Five alleged extremists were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in a remote area close to Al-Arish city in North Sinai governorate, according to a statement from the ministry of interior.
The statement said that the five men (...)
Vicat Egypt, a subsidiary of France's Vicat Group, a French company manufacturing cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete in four continents, said that the company plans to inject new direct investments up to €30m in the Sinai Cement Company to (...)
Six militants were killed in a shoot-out with security forces during a raid on a terrorist camp in a desert area on the Assiut-Sohag desert road, according to a Saturday statement by the Ministry of Interior.
This came after the police received (...)
A number of 40 alleged militants were killed in a raid in three hideouts in Egypt's Giza and North Sinai governorates, according to Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MOI) announcement statement on Saturday.
14 were killed in the first hideout located at (...)
Egypt's Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that it had killed 40 terrorists in a raid on three hideouts in Egypt's Giza and North Sinai governorate, a statement by the interior ministry read.
The ministry highlighted that the raid was carried (...)
Fourteen alleged militants were killed in a fire exchange on Sunday with the Egyptian security forces in Arish, North Sinai, according to a statement from the ministry of interior.
"Information by the National Security Apparatus unveiled that a (...)
Egypt's police killed 14 members of a terrorist cell in North Sinai's Al-Arish during a shootout, a statement by the interior ministry said on Sunday.
Using intelligence from the National Security Agency, police raided a hideout used by the (...)
Dana Gas, Middle East's largest regional private sector natural gas firm, has received $20 million from the Egyptian Government in Egyptian pounds.
Total receipts from Egypt have reached $152 million for the year. The Company understands that a (...)
Egypt's economic reform programme is now in its third year, and it was in late 2016 that it all began with floating the pound, imposing new taxes and slashing subsidies. The government's programme is backed by a three-year $12 billion extended fund (...)
Egypt has always been the land ancient civilisation of grand pyramids. But there is another impressive site that attracts a substantial number of visitors every year: the mysterious Valley of the Kings. About 700 km south of Cairo, in a patch of (...)
Egypt's security forces killed 12 terrorists in an exchange of fire on Thursday in North Sinai, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
The National Security Agency had received information that a group of terrorist suspects was using an abandoned (...)
Egypt's National Authority For Potable Water and Sewage has implemented a number of projects worth 533 million pounds in North Sinai.
Work is underway to establish other projects at a total cost of about four billion pounds, said Alaa Ibrahim, the (...)
Upper Egypt has been slightly far from the militancy Egypt has been facing ever since the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, with the exception of Minya, which was targeted twice in attacks against Coptic Christians.
Last month (...)
Speaking during a retrial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 128 other defendants on charges of breaking out of prison during the anti-Mubarak uprising of 2011, former interior minister Habib Al-Adli said there was a “clear conspiracy” to destroy (...)
Former Minister of Interior, Habib Al-Adly, described what had happened in Egypt in 2011 as a ‘conspiracy' to change the regime in Egypt, meaning the 25th of January revolution.
During his testimony on Sunday in the case know as ‘storming prisons (...)
