Middle East
Public date: 24.08.2017 23:12:18
1 Jan 2016
Egypt s president has called for a new parliament to convene on 10 January, more than three years after the old...
5 Jul 2015
Egypt was accused of making a savage assault on free speech on Sunday, after its cabinet drafted a law that criminalises...
17 May 2015
The US is deeply concerned about an Egyptian court decision to seek the death penalty for the former president Mohamed...
19 Jan 2015
Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gave evidence in his espionage trial for the first time on Sunday, launching...
30 Nov 2014
Protests erupted at universities across Egypt after a court s decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak,...
25 Oct 2014
The attack occurred in Sheikh Zuweid, a few kilometres from Gaza, and is the single-largest strike on Egyptian security...
12 Aug 2014
Egyptian security forces intentionally killed at least 817 protesters during last August's Rabaa massacre, in a...
9 Aug 2014
An Egyptian court has dissolved the Freedom and Justice party, the political wing of the banned Muslim Brotherhood. A...
7 Jul 2014
Egypt's president has acknowledged for the first time that the heavy sentences handed down to three al-Jazeera...
6 Jul 2014
Cairo's taxi and microbus drivers have staged impromptu protests in anger at a surprise rise in fuel prices, providing...
6 Jul 2014
Cairo's taxi and microbus drivers have staged impromptu protests in anger at a surprise rise in fuel prices, providing...
24 Jun 2014
International outrage at Egypt's brutal crackdown on dissent intensified on Monday after three journalists for...
23 Jun 2014
US-Egyptian ties have inched closer to normality as America's top diplomat, John Kerry, held talks in Cairo with Egypt's...
6 Jun 2014
Prosecutors sought the highest possible jail terms for three al-Jazeera English journalists on trial in Egypt, after...
30 May 2014
Everyone knew Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Egypt's former army chief, would win the country's presidential election this week....
28 May 2014
The decision to extend Egypt's presidential runoff into a third day has seriously harmed the credibility of the poll,...
27 May 2014
In private, western government ministers and officials admit that Sisi's "road-map" cannot include the aspirations that...
26 May 2014
On the campaign trail, Egypt's next president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, has aimed much of his attention at women. They are...
12 May 2014
Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the former army chief most likely to become Egypt's next president, has said he will resign if his...
24 Feb 2014
An Egyptian prosecutor on Sunday accused the ousted Islamist president of passing state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary...
6 Feb 2014
Egypt's army chief, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has finally confirmed his intention to run for Egypt's presidency, a Kuwaiti...
24 Dec 2013
Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has been called a terrorist group by a spokesman for Egypt's cabinet, according to a...
23 Dec 2013
Three of the figureheads of Egypt's 2011 uprising have been jailed for three years, the first secular activists to be...
21 Dec 2013
Egypt has announced that 130 people who escaped from jail during the uprising against the former president Hosni Mubarak...
19 Dec 2013
An Egyptian court has acquitted the former president Hosni Mubarak's two sons and his last prime minister of corruption...
19 Dec 2013
An Egyptian court has acquitted the former president Hosni Mubarak's two sons and his last prime minister of corruption...
9 Oct 2013
The Obama administration is poised to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to...
9 Sep 2013
Egypt's army has announced a full-scale assault on militant areas in the restive northern Sinai desert, in what a senior...
3 Aug 2013
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Friday criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry for saying the Egyptian military had...
30 Jul 2013
Egypt's interim government was accused of attempting to return the country to the Mubarak era on Monday, after the...
23 Jul 2013
Pre-dawn clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted president near the main campus of Cairo University...
1 Jul 2013
The headquarters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood have been burned and ransacked following an all-night siege one day after...
24 Jun 2013
Egypt's army has cautioned that it will intervene next weekend if mass rallies against the president descend into...
29 Jan 2013
In an ominous warning, the head of Egypt's armed forces has said that continuing civil unrest may soon cause the...
29 Jan 2013
Hopes for a swift end to Egypt's impasse faded on Monday as opposition leaders rebuffed a call by President Mohamed...
11 Dec 2012
An International Monetary Fund loan to Egypt has been delayed until next month, intensifying the political crisis...
5 Dec 2012
Egyptian security forces have clashed with opponents of Mohamed Morsi who gathered outside the presidential palace in...
2 Dec 2012
Egypt's highest court suspended its sessions indefinitely on Sunday after Islamist protesters surrounded the building...
26 Nov 2012
Egypt's president has agreed that only his decisions related to "sovereign matters" would be protected from judicial...
18 Mar 2012
Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has died aged 88 after 40 years spent leading Egypt's...
22 Jan 2012
An Egyptian blogger jailed by the military junta for insulting the army has been officially pardoned, as the country's...
11 Jan 2012
Egypt's interim government is to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund over an emergency $3bn ( 2bn) credit...
10 Jan 2012
The liberal Egyptian party co-founded by Egypt's wealthiest businessman, mobile phone and media tycoon Naguib Sawiris,...
29 Dec 2011
Egyptian security forces have launched raids on a series of high-profile human rights and pro-democracy organisations...
25 Dec 2011
One of Egypt's most prominent revolutionaries has been released from jail after almost two months during which he missed...
2 Dec 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood has fired a warning shot at Egypt's ruling generals, declaring that a swift end to military rule...
30 Nov 2011
Political Islamists look likely to dominate Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliament after sweeping victories for religious...
1 Nov 2011
One of Egypt's most prominent revolutionaries has been taken into custody by the country's military rulers, provoking...
11 Oct 2011
Egypt's finance minister and deputy prime minister has resigned in protest over the government handling of weekend...
16 Sep 2011
Egyptians have returned to Tahrir Square to rally against the military junta's reactivation of Mubarak-era emergency...
6 Aug 2011
"By putting myself forward I am making this democratic right - the right of a woman to be president - a concrete...
29 Jun 2011
Clashes between protesters and security forces engulfed Cairo once again on Tuesday night, as the fiercest street...
14 Feb 2011
The Egyptian military has rejected the demands of pro-democracy protesters for a swift transfer of power to a civilian...
11 Feb 2011
Hosni Mubarak's presidency was born amid gunfire and bloodshed and ended in an equally dramatic fashion. As...
10 Feb 2011
A clear translation of Mubarak's words will take a while so it's hard to know exactly what Mubarak was saying. But from...
9 Feb 2011
The sickening, rapid click-click-clicking of the electrocuting device sounded like an angry rattlesnake as it passed...
9 Feb 2011
The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass...
2 Feb 2011
The White House was last night anxiously assessing whether its strategy of pressuring Hosni Mubarak to resign later this...
1 Feb 2011
As the crowd went wild, a man in army fatigues was hoisted on to shoulders and carried into the square they have made...
31 Jan 2011
International alarm about the political and security implications of continuing unrest in Egypt intensified tonight as...
31 Jan 2011
Hundreds of members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's leading Islamist political party, were among thousands of...
31 Jan 2011
They arrived with a growing roar that the crowd felt before they saw them: two sharp, banking shapes sweeping so low...
31 Jan 2011
Egyptian opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, tonight predicted change within "the next few days" as western leaders...