The biennial joint American- Egyptian military exercise Bright Star 2017, kicked off on Sunday, marking the first time the US has participated in the joint exercise since the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The exercise is being...اقرأ المزيد
A top-level Hamas delegation, including the group’s head Yahya al-Sunwar, arrived to Egypt Saturday to discuss national reconciliation between themselves and the Palestinian Fatah movement. Al-Sunwar and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh will also...اقرأ المزيد
Giza Criminal Court referred the papers of 11 defendants in the case known as Giza Terrorist Cell on Saturday to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam, before sentencing them to the death penalty. The court set October 22 as the final verdict date for the 26 defendants. A...اقرأ المزيد
Banque Misr said Friday that the bank recently reached a settlement over the debt of businessman Ibrahim Kamel, worth a total of LE1.1 billion. In statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Vice President of the bank Akef al-Maghraby said that the settlement included...اقرأ المزيد
Al-Azhar, the world’s top Muslim Sunni institution, said Friday that it would lead humanitarian efforts on an international level to stop the massacre, genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. “This barbarian and inhuman events...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian authorities made an exception to open the Rafah border crossing in North Sinai, for the return of Palestinian pilgrims coming from Cairo Airport to the Gaza Strip, after Hajj in Saudi Arabia. An official source at the crossing said that additional...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt has blocked the website of Human Rights Watch just one day after the organization released a report on systematic torture in the country’s jails. Reuters attempted to access the website late on Thursday but was unsuccessful. “Egyptian authorities...اقرأ المزيد
The parents of Italian researcher Giulio Regini, killed in Cairo in February 2016, met with Italian investigators on Wednesday in Rome, who presented Regini’s parents a copy of investigations recently sent by the Egyptian authorities on the case. The...اقرأ المزيد
The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Christians...اقرأ المزيد
The European Union’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that EU states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, dismissing complaints by Slovakia and Hungary and reigniting an angry row between east and west. The government of Hungary’s nationalist...اقرأ المزيد