Former Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has won a landslide victory in the presidential election that ended Wednesday, provisional results showed on Thursday.
An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced deposed president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on corruption charges, in one of two trials after the 2011 uprising that ended his rule.
Hailed as a saviour for overthrowing an Islamist president, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can count on the vote of Egypt's Coptic Christians who view him as a bulwark against fundamentalists.
When Egypt's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced in a television address the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ultraconservative Salafi party official sat by his side, making an unlikely ally.
The United States will lift a suspension on the delivery of Apache helicopters to Egypt after concluding Cairo has upheld its peace treaty with Israel, US officials said Tuesday.
Tehran, YJC. An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges including murder, a defense lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement, Reuters reported.
Russian-Egyptian talks on regional and international issues are becoming particularly important, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, opening a meeting with visiting Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy here on Thursday.
A jihadist group behind a wave of spectacular attacks is a grave threat to Egypt's stability as political turmoil triggered by the Islamist president's ouster rocks the country, analysts say.
Egypt will hold a presidential poll this year ahead of parliamentary elections, interim president Adly Mansour said Sunday, in a move seen to benefit the army chief if he stands.
Egyptian authorities are to announce Saturday the results of a constitutional referendum the interim government has hailed as a ringing endorsement of the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday adjourned the murder trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi to February 1, citing "weather conditions" that prevented Morsi's transport to court from his prison.
Egypt's premier on Tuesday declared the Muslim Brotherhood movement a "terrorist" group, after a car bomb ripped through a police building and killed at least 14 people.
The family of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi said Oct. 13 he would not enter any negotiations or accept any compromises following a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by military-backed authorities.
European Union's top diplomat will visit Egypt on Tuesday, on the third visit since the ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi, a diplomatic source told the Anadolu Agency.
The Hamas rulers of Gaza, where an Israeli blockade worsened after a friendly government in Cairo was overthrown, is doing all it can to avoid a confrontation with Egypt's army, experts say.