On Tuesday, the military announced the results of the eighth day of Operation Martyr’s Rights in Sinai on its official Facebook page: 11 terrorists killed, 51 suspects arrested and 55…
Confusion reigns over the circumstances of a mistaken military airstrike on a convoy of Mexican tourists in the Western Desert that killed at least 12 people, as official sources largely…
Sherif Ismail was named Egypt’s new prime minister on Saturday, tasked by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with forming a new government, after surviving two cabinet reshuffles as petroleum minister. Ismail…
The arrest of Egypt’s agriculture minister, just minutes after he resigned from the Cabinet, was featured prominently by nearly every local media outlet. Citing security sources, the privately owned Al-Masry…
Security forces attempted to prevent a planned mass demonstration in an authorized area by civil service workers on Saturday. …
Hurricanes, earthquakes and all-too-familiar sandstorms are not acts of nature — instead, they are weaponized events orchestrated by a secret world organization intent on laying waste to nations including Egypt.…
Between the manoeuvrings of its businessman owner and the Journalists Syndicate, privately owned newspaper Al-Tahrir faces an uncertain future. With several newspapers facing similar financial and political pressures, and…
Al Jazeera journalists sentenced in late August are not journalists, according to the reasoning of the Cairo Criminal Court, which was released on Monday. The verdict’s reasoning — as published in the privately owned…
“What are they used for, guys?” Sisi asks them. “To destroy countries,” they reply in unison.
Detainee Amr Rabie reportedly refused an offer from a prison officer to change his behavior in return for the alleviation of torture against him, his mother said at a press…
Three weeks separated the protests against the civil service law and protests staged by police conscripts last week. In both cases, additional protests were cancelled or delayed — the conscripts briefly…
Foreign journalists received mixed signals from the State Information Service (SIS) on Monday, when its Press Center issued a statement stipulating a week’s notice for any requests or queries by…
An exclusive in the privately owned daily Al-Shorouk last week announced that seven groups within the Muslim Brotherhood have paid allegiance to the Islamic State, raising concerns that the group…
The significance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s recent visit to Russia lies less in the details of the talks between the president and his counterpart Vladmir Putin, than in the…
Photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid — popularly known as Shawkan — is going on a hunger strike to protest surpassing his maximum pretrial detention period of two years, the Free Shawkan…
A new popular campaign “No to Religious Parties” is collecting signatures to pressure Egyptian authorities to dissolve all religious parties in the country. The group states it is not against…
Last week was hard on the Egyptian press. Detained photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid (popularly known as Shawkan) was referred to criminal court on undisclosed charges related to the Rabea al-Adaweya…
SANAA – Ambiguity continues to shroud the extent of Egypt’s involvement in the Saudi-led coalition’s fight against rebel forces in Yemen. The 10-member coalition has recently stepped up its campaign…
The anti-terrorism law that was ratified last week included several articles that were contested for months after the draft bill circulated earlier this summer, and which critics had hoped to see…
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