The new Egyptian capital, announced in March 2015, is intended partly to reduce crowding in Cairo... READ MORE›
The United Nations human rights office has expressed deep shock and concern over the reported executions of 20 people in Egypt over the past two weeks... READ MORE›
Another Twitter user posted African football is sooo corrupt man Salah is not even African he's Egyptian... READ MORE›
Egyptian officials say a sightseeing balloon carrying foreign tourists over the southern city of Luxor has crash landed, killing one tourist and injuring seven... READ MORE›
An image from a video released by the Islamic State's affiliate in the northern Sinai, distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group... READ MORE›
ISIL-affiliated fighters have ramped up deadly attacks in Sinai in recent years, inflicting heavy losses on the Egyptian military as well as civilians... READ MORE›
Egypt's interior ministry says police have shot dead nine people suspected of belonging to a cell behind deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula... READ MORE›
El-Sissi's 3 1 2 years in office have also seen an uptick in terror attacks by Islamic militants battling security forces in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula... READ MORE›
Arab states believe U.S. aid secure despite defying Trump Jerusalem move... READ MORE›
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was even more equivocal, saying that there was no specific timetable for the withdrawal... READ MORE›
To be sure, there is no other country that recognises the legitimacy of Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, which Trump has now endorsed... READ MORE›
The Russian president visited Syria, Egypt and Turkey all in a day, a trip underscoring new alliances and his role as a statesman... READ MORE›
Al-Qaeda has left the Israelis alone through three Gaza wars, in 2008, 2012 and 2014, he said... READ MORE›
In July 2015, ISIL affiliates simultaneously attacked multiple security and military targets, killing at least 35 people in various parts of Sinai, including El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid... READ MORE›
Read more Christians flee Sinai Peninsula in fear of Egypt's Islamic State affiliate Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE›
Nearly 1,000 Egyptian security personnel have died there since 2013... READ MORE›
Funerals for the 305 victims of Egypt's mosque massacre have been held, as nationwide mourning continues. Gunmen who killed worshippers at Friday Prayers in North Sinai... READ MORE›
It's unclear whether Egypt has any options left in the fight against Islamic militants... READ MORE›
AHMED HASSAN, EPA-EFE View of the Rawda mosque after a gun and bombing attack on Nov. 24, 2017... READ MORE›
Foreign reporters and most Egyptian ones are not allowed into Sinai... READ MORE›
Islamist militants who had found a safe haven in Sinai for attacks on Israel then turned their guns on the Egyptian armed forces... READ MORE›
Since at least 2016, Islamic State militants have targeted Sufis, who practice a mystical form of Islam that includes the veneration of saints, often at their tombs... READ MORE›
In an interview with an Islamic State magazine in January, one of the organization's top commanders in Sinai outlined his hatred for Sufism... READ MORE›
Egyptian security forces have been locked in battle with the country's Islamic State affiliate for several years... READ MORE›
AHMED HASSAN, EPA-EFE None View of the Rawda mosque after a gun and bombing attack on Nov. 24, 2017... READ MORE›
But Sufism, often known as Islamic mysticism, has come under violent attack in recent years... READ MORE›
Need the WALL, need the BAN! Trump tweeted before his planned call to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi... READ MORE›
Since at least 2016, Islamic State militants have targeted Sufis, who practice a mystical form of Islam that includes the veneration of saints, often at their tombs... READ MORE›
At least two other Egyptian militants groups, Jund al-Islam and the Hasm Movement, denounced Friday's attack... READ MORE›
But critics have called for a counterterrorism strategy in Sinai rather than the reliance on a conventional deployment of overwhelming force... READ MORE›
Minya bus shooting Children among at least 28 Coptic Christians killed and dozens injured in Egypt gun attack... READ MORE›
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt... READ MORE›
In the caravan attack, masked gunmen driving SUVs opened fire on the Coptic Christian pilgrims heading to a monastery about 130 miles south of the Egyptian capital... READ MORE›
Egypt's president calls for 3-month state of emergency after 2 church attacks on palm sunday... READ MORE›
Egypt's Copts are vocal supporters of el-Sissi, who has vowed to crush Islamist extremism and protect Christians... READ MORE›
The crash of Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo killed all 66 people aboard on May 19... READ MORE›
TANTA, Egypt -- Moments after the explosion rocked her church Sunday morning, Mona Faiez's phone rang... READ MORE›
It also comes after human rights groups accused the Egyptian military of killing up to 10 men in January in a staged counterterrorism raid in Sinai... READ MORE›
Dozens of Coptic Christian families in Egypt have fled North Sinai province after a number of killings in recent weeks by suspected Islamist militants... READ MORE›
Human Rights Council unless the body ends what Washington calls the whitewashing of dictators' abuses and unfair attacks on Israel... READ MORE›
CAIRO-- An explosion ripped through Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral complex on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 35, Egypt's health ministry said... READ MORE›
Egypt has for years been battling an armed movement in the rugged and thinly populated Sinai Peninsula... READ MORE›
Egyptian officials investigating the massacre of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai say the attackers were carrying the flag of the Islamic State group... READ MORE›
Both Israel and Jordan impose severe restrictions, however, on who is permitted to use the Erez and Allenby crossings... READ MORE›
Hundreds killed in Egypt mosque attack, state media reports... READ MORE›
The Western-backed mainstream Fatah party lost control of Gaza to Hamas in fighting in 2007... READ MORE›
Vigils have been held in Russia after a plane bound for Syria carrying 92 people crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff... READ MORE›
Washington, DC - Hobby Lobby, the US-based arts-and-crafts retailer recently fined for buying Iraqi artefacts on the black market, gave 25,000 to organisations based in Israeli settlements... READ MORE›
Many of Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow, and scores of churches and other Christian-owned properties in southern Egypt were ransacked that year... READ MORE›
In the video, we see executions of unarmed people by forces wearing military uniforms, he said... READ MORE›
Fighters in Egypt have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, but such attacks on senior officers are rare... READ MORE›
Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu for a joint meeting of the Russian and Egyptian foreign and defense ministers... READ MORE›
Before Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring uprising, about 5,000 Christians lived in northern Sinai, but the number has since dwindled to fewer than 1,000, say priests and residents... READ MORE›
Whereas the Islamic State once used foreign fighters as suicide bombers, it is increasingly tapping young Iraqi boys, he said... READ MORE›
However, mosques in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid town have also been hit... READ MORE›
Another senior military officer and a soldier were killed last week in North Sinai in a roadside explosion... READ MORE›
El-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, has been a site of regular conflict between government forces and ISIL fighters in recent months... READ MORE›
Two tourists, reported to be women, have been killed in stabbings at a hotel in the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Egyptian medical officials say... READ MORE›
Egypt's parliament has voted to ratify a 2016 agreement under which Cairo would transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
Trump's win, said Benaim, presented an opportunity for Egypt to change how it is perceived in Washington even before Sisi's arrival in the capital... READ MORE›
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