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Egypt: Former President Mohamed Morsi dies after facing judge
Cairo, June 17, 2019 - Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but spent just one turbulent year in office after the 2011 uprising before the army toppled him. The Islamist's overthrow was followed by a brutal...
Egypt: Army retaliates for Eid attack on checkpoint in North Sinai, kills 14 suspected militants
Cairo, June 6, 2019 - Egyptian security forces have killed 14 suspected militants during a raid carried out in the restive Sinai Peninsula in response to a deadly checkpoint attack, the authorities said. Wednesday's attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, left...
Egypt: Islamic State attacks army checkpoint in North Sinai, kills eight security agents
Cairo, June 5, 2019 - Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, centre of a long-running jihadist insurgency, security and medical sources said. "Eight killed and three wounded were transferred to El-Arish...
Sudan army unleashes repression on protesters
June 3, 2019 - Egypt on Monday urged all sides in Sudan to return to the negotiating table as security forces moved to break up a weeks-long protest camp in Khartoum. Violence erupted at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital earlier in the...
Libya hands over suspected Islamic State insurgent to Egypt
Egypt: Jazeera journalist kept in Egyptian jail in case of judicial harassment
Egypt: Human rights violations and attrocities reported in North Sinai
New Sudan ruler visits Egypt’s General Sisi
Cairo, May 25, 2019 (AFP) - The head of Sudan's ruling military council arrived in Cairo Saturday, an airport official said, the general's first foreign trip since taking power after the April ouster of president Omar al-Bashir. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's visit...
Egypt unfreezes assets of Habib al-Adly, one of Mubarak’s most ruthless security chiefs
Egypt: Regime of General Sisi arrests more rights activists
Egypt: War rages in northeast Egypt, 52 killed in latest clash
General Sisi of Egypt confirms his support to Libyan warlord Haftar in his quest to destroy Tripoli
Egypt: New app tests streaming business in Egypt, challenges old media
Egypt: Debating woman’s rights in Egypt
Egypt: Trump’s gift to General Sisi, naming Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization
Washington, April 30, 2019 - President Donald Trump is considering placing the Muslim Brotherhood on a US blacklist of "foreign terrorist organizations," the White House said Tuesday. The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement with support across the Middle East, was...
Egypt Mufti OKs death penalty for monks over bishop killing
Egypt: General Sisi consolidates his power
Egypt braces for long-term authoritarian regime
Egypt: Teenage suicide bomber kills seven in Egypt
Cairo, April 9, 2019 - A teen suicide bomber killed four members of Egypt's security forces and three civilians Tuesday in restive North Sinai, the interior ministry said, with the Islamic State group claiming the attack. "The suicide bomber aged 15 blew himself up"...
Egypt: General Sisi names another general to clean up public transport mess
Cairo, March 10, 2019 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday tapped a senior military officer for the post of transport minister after a recent train crash at Cairo's central station killed 22 people. Speaking at a military gathering,...
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