Tag: Egypt

Riot police on Saturday cleared Cairo’s Tahrir Square of protesters who had camped overnight after a rally of some 50,000 people, mainly Islamists, pressed...

Egyptian police arrested a leading member of an armed Islamist group suspected of involvement in pipeline bombings that have disrupted gas supplies to Israel...

Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut...

Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut...

The trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak which was due to resume on Sunday has been postponed following demands for the appointment of...

Egypt helped broker a fresh ceasefire by militants in Gaza Sunday, after violence left nine Palestinians and one Israeli dead, sources close to the...

Well, it was a Sunday, the weather was nice, there was no chance of police baton charge and, given the leader’s views, there wasn’t...

Sources close to Gaza militant groups said early Sunday that they were trying to call a halt to rocket fire that brought deadly retaliatory...

Several thousand protesters in Cairo called on the ruling military on Friday to promptly transfer power to a civilian government and exclude old regime...

Egypt and Israel are adding the “final touches” to a deal to swap an Israel-American detained in Cairo for a group of Egyptian prisoners...

Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is expected to return to Israel via Egypt by next Wednesday, Palestinian sources and Israeli media said on Thursday. A...

Pope Benedict XVI called on Egypt on Wednesday to fight “attempts to sabotage” relations between Christians and Muslims after 25 people, mainly Copts, were...

Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi resigned on Tuesday following deadly clashes in the capital that left 25 people dead, the official MENA news...

Egypt's cabinet held crisis talks Monday after 24 people died in clashes between Coptic Christians and security forces that threaten to widen cracks in...

Egyptian Christians mourned their dead and berated the army on Monday after at least 25 people were killed when troops crushed a protest about...

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was headed to Cairo from Tel Aviv on Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions between Egypt and Israel...

Egypt’s state of emergency, which allows authorities to detain suspects without charge, will not be lifted until stability returns, its military ruler said in...