The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in Egypt said in a statement that it had “resisted a military operation in the Western Desert” on Sunday.
According to Mexico’s foreign minister, Egypt will provide proper medical treatment to the victims and aid in the repatriation of the bodies back to Mexico, AP reported. They are being treated at a hospital in suburban Cairo. “Some attempted to run but the military...
Ahmed Yousef, another senior Hamas official from Gaza, also told Xinhua that Hamas Shura Council has not convened to debate a truce agreement with Israel.
The reports of the meeting between Blair and Meshaal come after a top-level delegation led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy, Isaac Molho, held talks in Cairo on Tuesday with Egyptian military representatives.
A powerful auto bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in a popular residential neighborhood in Cairo, wounding 29 people including at least six police officers.
Meanwhile, the US State Department warned the new law may amount to further human rights violations, but nevertheless expressed support for Egypt’s security and stability.
The blast, which was heard across the Egyptian capital in the early hours of Thursday, heavily damaged the face of the state security building. The driver had parked it then was picked up by a motorcycle and fled before the explosives went off. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, as the Sinai...
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued an anti-terrorism law on August 15, which grants prosecutors greater power to arrest suspects and withhold them from due process as well as the ability to execute deep and “potentially indefinitive surveillance” of potential...
People gather along the banks as a crane raises a boat which had capsized on the River Nile, during a search for victims, in the Warraq area of Giza, south of Cairo, Egypt, July 23, 2015.