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Egypt and Turkey Test Pragmatic Rapprochement After Years of Estrangement$

After more than a decade of strained relations, Egypt and Turkey are moving toward a pragmatic re-engagement shaped less by reconciliation than by converging regional interests. Recent diplomatic exchanges and concrete defense-industrial cooperation suggest that both...

Egypt Deepens Defense-Industrial Engagement With China$

Egypt is expanding its defense-industrial partnerships with China, with recent developments pointing to a growing emphasis on localized production, joint training, and institutional military ties. Publicly documented cooperation during 2025 reflects Cairo’s continued...

Sudan Conflict: Egypt’s Military Escalation After the Fall of El‑Fasher$

Egypt appears to have shifted from diplomatic broker to covert combatant in Sudan’s war, in what may be the center of a widening regional proxy struggle, with new evidence pointing to drone and air strikes launched from a secret base in the Western Desert and rising...

UAE Regional Influence Under Strain Amid Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Maghreb Frictions$

Across several regions, the United Arab Emirates is facing visible diplomatic and political friction with key Arab states. The developments span Sudan and Libya, extend to Yemen, and surface in the Maghreb, pointing to a period of strain for Emirati regional...

Inside the US Decision to Target Specific Muslim Brotherhood Branches$

The United States has designated three Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations, targeting branches in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon while leaving other national organizations formally untouched. The move likely reflects a selective approach that focuses on...

Egypt Moves to Shore Up Somalia as Regional Alignments Shift in the Horn of Africa$

Cairo has significantly intensified its military involvement in Somalia, driven by mounting anxieties over regional power dynamics in the Horn of Africa. This escalation follows Israel’s late‑December 2025 recognition of Somaliland, a territory that broke away from...

Jailed Egypt songwriter on hunger strike refuses waterF

Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said. Behairy, who began his hunger strike in March after five years in custody,...

Egypt: Al Jazeera Journalist Hisham Abdelaziz released from prison as Egypt moves closer to QatarF

The authorities in Egypt have released a journalist with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network nearly four years after he was detained, the media outlet said. Hisham Abdelaziz, a producer with the network's Mubasher channel, was arrested in June 2019 after being...

Egypt: Khaled Elbalshy of banned Darb news site, elected chief of Egypt’s journalist unionF

Egypt's journalist union said Saturday it had elected government critic Khaled Elbalshy as its head, amid a crackdown on the press with several reporters languishing in jail. "It's a breath of hope," said Lina Atalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, an online newspaper...

Egyptian court labels veteran human rights activists “terrorists”, sentences them to 15 years in prisonF

A special Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced four veteran human rights activists to prison terms up to 15 years for "terrorism", several rights groups said. Mohammed Abu Horayra, a lawyer, received a 15-year sentence, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

Egypt: Three years in prison and tortured for allegedly spreading “fake news”F

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