After rumors in various media outlets about a government plan to displace residents of North Sinai to make way for army operations against militants there, Parliament Speaker Ali Abdul Aal denied the claims. In an emergency parliamentary session, Abdul...اقرأ المزيد
Security forces killed three and arrested another five suspected militants in a crackdown in central Sinai, announced Armed Forces spokesperson, Tamer Al-Refaei, in a statement posted on his official Facebook page on Tuesday. His statement also said that...اقرأ المزيد
In the latest escalation in the Egypt-Qatar rift, Qatar Airways announced it will be terminating its operations in Egypt, and ending all contracts for Egyptian employees, according to Qatar Airways workers. Workers reported that they had received letters...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry condemned a statement by the Israeli Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel in which she said that a future Palestinian state should be established on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In a phone interview with privately-run Egyptian...اقرأ المزيد
Journalist and former undersecretary of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, Khaled al-Balshy, stood out among 300 nominees and won the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Award on Monday, after being recognized by the international NGO, CIVICUS,...اقرأ المزيد
In the wake of numerous media reports of a militant attack on the Orthodox Coptic monastery in North Sinai’s Al-Arish, security sources who wished to remain anonymous denied on Tuesday that such an attack took place. On Monday evening, a number of local...اقرأ المزيد
In solidarity with the victims of al-Rawda Mosque, the bells of all of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox churches rang its bells at noon on Saturday, according to a statement released by the Coptic Orthodox Church on Saturday. The Church offered its sincere condolences...اقرأ المزيد
A Cairo court sentenced seven people to death for joining the Islamic State in Libya and taking part in the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in 2015, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. The defendants formed a cell in the northern Egyptian city...اقرأ المزيد
According to a statement by Egypt’s top prosecutor, the death toll of North Sinai mosque attack rose on Saturday to 305 including 27 children. 127 others were injured. Prosecutor Nabil Sadek issued a statement on Saturday, announcing new details about...اقرأ المزيد
In a televised speech responding to the mosque bombing in Al-Arish that left 235 people dead, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi vowed to retaliate with “brute force” against perpetrators. Al-Sisi said that the Friday’s attack aimed to spread a seed...اقرأ المزيد
