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A Cairo court Wednesday pressed life prison sentences against Mohamed Badie, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and five other members of the organization, for igniting violence following the removal in 2013 of first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. The Read more
Security authorities Wednesday claimed the killing of several suspected militants in the city of Arish, in the Sinai as state-run news agency MENA put the number of those killed at 11. The army and police have launched since February a Read more
President Fattah al-Sisi Sunday extended for three more months the state of emergency imposed last year in the wake of the two Islamic state group (ISIS)-master-minded attacks against two Coptic churches, which left 45 people dead. ISIS claimed responsibility for Read more
Osama Morsi, one of Mohamed Morsi’s five children was arrested Thursday in his house by security forces for participation in 2013 in a protest against his father’s removal by the army then led by current President Fattah al-Sisi. “Police searched Read more
Egypt’s former leading mufti Ali Gomaa narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Cairo on Friday. Armed men tried to kill Gomaa as he was entering a mosque in 6 October city on the outskirts of Cairo on Friday afternoon, where Read more
The Islamic State (IS) group Monday claimed the killing of an Egyptian police major gunned down on Sunday in North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish. The Egyptian interior ministry confirmed the claim. The militant group holding tight to security forces Read more