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DELEGATION WILL ASK EGYPT'S PRESIDENT TO FREE HUNGER STRIKER IBRAHIM HALAWA
A cross-party delegation of Irish politicians is to personally ask Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to free jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa... READ MORE›
DEADLY TRUCK-BOMB ATTACK HITS SINAI'S EL-ARISH
The Sinai Peninsula borders Israel and Palestine's Gaza Strip... READ MORE›
EGYPT POLICE STATION SUICIDE BOMBING IN SINAI KILLS 10
A rubbish truck filled with explosives was reportedly used to carry out the strike... READ MORE›
EIGHT POLICE KILLED IN ATTACK IN NORTH SINAI
The militant group staging the insurgency in Sinai pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 2014 and adopted the name Sinai Province... READ MORE›
WITH BOMBING VICTIMS STILL DYING, IT'S A SOMBER CHRISTMAS FOR EGYPT'S CHRISTIANS
Egyptian Coptic Christian religious leader Pope Tawadros II leads Christmas celebration at the St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo on January 6, 2017... READ MORE›
POLITICIANS TO VISIT IRISHMAN IBRAHIM HALAWA ON 'HUNGER STRIKE' IN EGYPT JAIL
A cross party delegation of Irish politicians will travel to Egypt on Monday to visit jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa... READ MORE›
EGYPT FREES 2011 UPRISING ACTIVIST AHMED MAHER
Ahmed Maher released after three years in prison for attending protest in defiance of law banning public gatherings... READ MORE›
"THE OTHER", BY IBN TAYMIYAH
The Wahhabi revived the ideas of Ibn Taymiyah, which allowed an individual or group to ex-communicate anyone who did not follow Islamic law... READ MORE›
LSLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMS ISTANBUL NEW YEAR'S NIGHT CLUB ATTACK
Most of the victims were visitors from the Middle East, celebrating the New Year in the ritzy night club... READ MORE›
COURT UPHOLDS DEAL TO TRANSFER RED SEA ISLANDS
An Egyptian court has upheld an agreement to give control of two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, providing a boost for the government... READ MORE›
AGREEMENT TO HAND OVER RED SEA ISLANDS APPROVED
Egypt's government has approved a controversial deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, according to state television... READ MORE›
LIBYAN PAIR CLAIM INNOCENCE, ARE CHARGED IN MALTA WITH HIJACKING JETLINER
Two hijackers diverted the Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said... READ MORE›
AL JAZEERA CONDEMNS ARREST OF ITS JOURNALIST IN EGYPT
Egypt's interior ministry said that Hussein was arrested on Friday at a house in Giza, on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo... READ MORE›
ALL PASSENGERS ARE SAFE AFTER LIBYAN JET IS HIJACKED
Libyan officials, though, believed the hijackers had more personal goals... READ MORE›
EGYPT ARRESTS AL JAZEERA NEWS PRODUCER DURING VACATION
Al Jazeera holds Egyptian authorities responsible for the safety of Hussein and is calling for his immediate release, the Qatar-based network said in a statement... READ MORE›
PROPOSED UN RESOLUTION DEMANDS END TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected those terms saying negotiations should take place without conditions... READ MORE›
STUNNING PHOTOS CAPTURE RARE SNOW IN THE SAHARA DESERT
Incredible photos capture freak snowfall in the Sahara Desert, believed to be first time it has fallen on the unforgiving red dunes in almost 40 years... READ MORE›
WORLD'S BIGGEST STOCK SURGE AFTER FED RATE HIKE ISN'T DONE YET
The 32 billion bourse will hand investors positive returns in dollar terms next year, Al Hajj said, as Egypt implements policies to stimulate growth... READ MORE›
OBAMA'S RUSSIAN-HACK HYPOCRISY AND OTHER NOTABLE COMMENTS
Obama claims that Russia's election hacking ended after he confronted Vladimir Putin in September... READ MORE›
KANSAS WOMAN'S TOPICAL CHRISTMAS CARD GOES VIRAL
So this year she penned a sentence, and it's gone viral: "This Christmas season we would like to remind everyone that Jesus was a Middle Eastern refugee."... READ MORE›
EGYPT TO HAND OVER EGYPTAIR CRASH VICTIMS' REMAINS
There has been no such claim linked to the EgyptAir crash... READ MORE›
'NO END IN SIGHT': DETENTION WEARS ON FOR AMERICAN WHO RAN EGYPT CHILDREN'S CLINIC
Its founders - American-Egyptian citizen Aya Hijazi, and her husband Mohammed Hassanein - were arrested along with two other employees... READ MORE›
EXPLOSIVES FOUND ON EGYPT PLANE CRASH BODIES
Investigators into the fatal EgyptAir flight which crash into the Mediterranean say they've found traces of explosives on the bodies of passengers... READ MORE›
TRACES OF EXPLOSIVES FOUND ON VICTIMS OF EGYPTAIR FLIGHT 804
The crash of Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo killed all 66 people aboard on May 19... READ MORE›
TRACES OF EXPLOSIVES FOUND ON HUMAN REMAINS FROM EGYPTAIR FLIGHT CRASH
Flight 804 from Paris plunged into the Mediterranean in May, killing all 66 people aboard... READ MORE›
RUSSIA-TURKISH TALKS ON ALEPPO MORE EFFECTIVE THAN 'FRUITLESS' US TALKS, SAYS LAVROV
The Russian foreign minister says Moscow has high hopes for ongoing talks with Ankara... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR EGYPT CHURCH BOMBING
The Egyptian government had earlier released footage showing images said to be that of the alleged suicide attacker... READ MORE›
IRISHMAN JAILED IN EGYPT CRAFTS PAPER BOUQUET IN FLAG COLOURS AHEAD OF BIRTHDAY
Ibrahim Halawa On my birthday, I want to gift everyone who has always been there for me... READ MORE›
SISI NAMES BOMBER OF CAIRO COPTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH
READ MORE Anger in Egypt after deadly Cairo church blast It is the destiny of our church to offer martyrs... READ MORE›
11 ARRESTED IN FRANCE OVER NICE ATTACK
A 22-year-old suicide bomber was behind Sunday's massacre at Cairo's Coptic Christian Cathedral complex, Egypt's President said on Monday... READ MORE›
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BOMB ATTACK NEAR CAIRO COPTIC CATHEDRAL KILLS AT LEAST 25
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt... READ MORE›
25 KILLED BY BOMB BLAST AT COPTIC CATHEDRAL
A blast at Cairo's main Coptic Christian cathedral has killed at least 25 people, according to Egyptian state TV ... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 22 KILLED BY BLASTS NEAR CAIRO CATHEDRAL
Local time someone threw a bomb into a small chapel attached to the St. Mark's Cathedral in the Abbassia district, Egypt's main Coptic church... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP LIKELY TO END AID FOR REBELS FIGHTING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
If the United States pursues that line, We end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria, Mr. Trump told The Journal... READ MORE›
US-TRAINED DIVISION 30 REBELS 'BETRAYED US AND HAND WEAPONS OVER TO AL-QAEDA'S AFFILIATE IN SYRIA'
Pentagon-trained rebels are reported to have betrayed us and handed weapons over to jabhat al-nusra immediately after entering syria... READ MORE›
EGYPT'S OIL MINISTER MAKES RARE TRIP TO IRAN FOR OIL TALKS AFTER SAUDI SUSPENSION
Molla said last month it was unclear when the Saudi oil deliveries would resume and Saudi Arabia has provided no reason for their suspension... READ MORE›
AFTER TRUMP CHAT, PUTIN'S AIRSTRIKES POUND SYRIA
Aleppo activist Baraa al-Halaby told the Associated PressA warplanes were firing missiles and helicopters were dropping barrel bombs in Syriaa??s largest city... READ MORE›
EGYPT TAKES AIM AT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
Mona Mohamed was 10 years old when she underwent what's also known as a female circumcision on a hot summer day in her village in Upper Egypt... READ MORE›
EGYPT'S 'GIFT TO THE WORLD' COST $8 BILLION AND PROBABLY WASN'T NECESSARY
Egypt's expansion of the Suez Canal will likely only skim a few hours off the time that vessels wait to traverse it... READ MORE›
ANGER IN EGYPT AFTER DEADLY CAIRO CHURCH BLAST
Mohamad Elmasry, of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said the attack against Coptic Christians is not an aberration ... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AIRLINER CRASHES IN CENTRAL SINAI EGYPT SAYS
CAIRO -- A Russian passenger airplane carrying 224 people crashed early Saturday in the central Sinai Peninsula, according to officials in Cairo and Moscow... READ MORE›
OBAMA DIRECTS PENTAGON TO TARGET AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE IN SYRIA, ONE OF THE MOST FORMIDABLE FORCES FIGHTING ASSAD
Read more Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra splits from al-Qaeda and changes its name Is al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria no longer a 'sideshow'?... READ MORE›
ISIS LEADERS 'ACCEPTING DEFEAT IN MOSUL AND RAQQA AND ENCOURAGING RECRUITS TO COMMIT TERROR IN EUROPE'
I think that was the case with most of the other European countries as well, said Rachid... READ MORE›
KAMEL DAOUD THE SEXUAL MISERY OF THE ARAB WORLD
Women are a recurrent theme in daily discourse, because the stakes they personify -- for manliness, honor, family values -- are great... READ MORE›
WHERE ISIS HAS DIRECTED AND INSPIRED ATTACKS AROUND THE WORLD
April 12 Egypt Egypt ISIS militants killed at least 12 people in three separate attacks on Egyptian security forces... READ MORE›
EXPLOSION AT CAIRO CHURCH KILLS AT LEAST 20 INJURES 35 OFFICIALS SAY
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›
OUTSIDE MOVES SHIFT SYRIA CONFLICT TO PROXY WAR
TOW missiles weave across fields, their red contrails blazing, chasing Russian-made vehicles used by Syrian government forces and blowing them up... READ MORE›
RUSSIA VETOES UN RESOLUTION TO STOP BOMBING OF ALEPPO
At the present rate of bombardment of eastern Aleppo, De Mistura said the city would be totally destroyed by December... READ MORE›
UN ENVOY WARNS EAST ALEPPO FACES 'TOTAL DESTRUCTION'
Aid deliveries to the besieged rebel-held neighbourhoods of Aleppo have been all but impossible since government forces seized the last supply route in July... READ MORE›
EGYPT COURT OVERTURNS MOHAMED MORSI'S LIFE SENTENCE
PROFILE Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi He was also accused of sharing state secrets with foreign powers, including Qatar... READ MORE›
PARIS ATTACKS WHAT DOES DAESH MEAN AND WHY DOES ISIS HATE IT
It is a term that most Arab states and many European governments use to refer to the Islamic State or ISIS... READ MORE›
FRIEDMAN SYRIA OBAMA AND PUTIN
Putin stupidly went into Syria looking for a cheap sugar high to show his people that Russia is still a world power... READ MORE›
'LEAKED KERRY COMMENTS PROVE US INVOLVEMENT IN SYRIAN CRISIS FROM ONSET'
In addition, I believe that it also proves that the Obama administration didn't give priority to peaceful and political solution for the Syrian crisis... READ MORE›
CABLES RELEASED BY WIKILEAKS REVEAL SAUDIS CHECKBOOK DIPLOMACY
BEIRUT Lebanon It seems that everyone wants something from Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
AS THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHES ISIS, PRESIDENT ASSAD'S FORCES KILL HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS IN SYRIA
As the whole world watches Isis, President Assad's forces kill hundreds of civilians in Syria... READ MORE›
DEATH TOLL IN MIGRANT SHIPWRECK OFF EGYPT RISES TO 300
The flow of migrants from the three main departure points - Libya, Turkey and Egypt - stands at roughly the same level as 2014... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH MYSTERY DEEPENS AS OFFICIALS DIFFER
Metrojet officials also dismissed claims by the Islamic State that its operatives felled the plane... READ MORE›
GERMAN VICE-CHANCELLOR ACCUSES SAUDI ARABIA OF FUNDING ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN THE WEST
The allegation that Saudi Arabia has funded mosques with links to Islamist terrorism in the West is not new... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO UK -- RT OP-EDGE
The discussions demonstrated a huge divergence of opinions and views on the realities in Aleppo and the Syrian crisis as a whole... READ MORE›
EGYPT COURT DROPS MUBARAK MURDER CASE
Profile of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years... READ MORE›
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ISIS LEADER BAGHDADI UNBOWED BY MOSUL BATTLE IN PURPORTED RECORDING
This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE LEADER, CONFIDENT ABOUT HOLDING MOSUL, CALLS FOR INVASION OF TURKEY
Mosul has a population of 1.5 million, much more than any of the other cities captured by Islamic State two years ago in Iraq and neighboring Syria... READ MORE›
CLINTON AND TRUMP ON THE ISLAMIC STATE
TRUMP The Republican nominee has made no secret of his willingness to work with the Russians in the fight against the Islamic State group... READ MORE›
GULF STATES ASK UN TO STOP ALEPPO ASSAULT
It called on the United Nations to implement relevant council resolutions over the Syria crisis ... READ MORE›
SENIOR ISIS STRATEGIST AND SPOKESMAN IS REPORTED KILLED IN SYRIA
Accounts from arrested members of the Islamic State confirmed Mr. Adnani's role as an operational leader as well... READ MORE›
SENIOR IS-LEADER ADNANI 'KILLED IN SYRIA'
Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces... READ MORE›
IS AL-QAEDA'S AFFILIATE IN SYRIA NO LONGER A 'SIDESHOW'?
The United States, Moscow repeatedly charged, had not lived up to its agreement to separate the opposition forces- it backs from the militants... READ MORE›
AL QAEDA TURNS TO SYRIA WITH A PLAN TO CHALLENGE ISIS
This ignited an often bloody rivalry between Nusra and Islamic State fighters in Syria... READ MORE›
US-LED AIRSTRIKES HIT ISIS TARGETS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ AS GROUP REPORTS CIVILIAN DEATHS
One of the strikes in Syria destroyed two Islamic State fighting positions near Palmyra, according to the Pentagon... READ MORE›
SYRIAN TROOPS CLOSE TO ENCIRCLING A REBEL STRONGHOLD ALEPPO
And all oppose the Islamic State, which has seized territory spanning the Syrian-Iraqi border... READ MORE›
MILITARY CHIEFS GATHER IN PARIS TO BOLSTER ISLAMIC STATE FIGHT
He focused on efforts to collapse the Islamic State's power centers of al Raqqa, in Syria, and Mosul, in Iraq... READ MORE›
BROKEN SYSTEM ALLOWS ISIS TO PROFIT FROM LOOTED ANTIQUITIES
Few objects have turned up so far that can be traced to the Islamic State's plunder... READ MORE›