TEHRAN, September 17 - Echoing some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric, authorities in Egypt are taking aim at an alleged barrage of "fake news" they say is meant to sow division and undermine the rule of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
TEHRAN, September 08 - An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 75 people for their participation in sit-in protests following the 2013 ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi.
TEHRAN, September 08 - An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 75 people for their participation in sit-in protests following the 2013 ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi.
TEHRAN, September 03 - One of the oldest villages in the Nile Delta has been discovered after archeologists unearthed artifacts dating to the fifth millennium BC, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities says.
TEHRAN, September 02 - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified a law granting authorities the right to monitor social media users in the country as part of tightening internet controls, the official gazette said Saturday.
TEHRAN, August 26 - Egypt’s Awqaf minister said the country is building new mosques and restoring some old ones based on the contemporary Islamic architecture.
TEHRAN, August 25 -Egyptian police forces have killed four suspected terrorists who had tried to carry out an attack on a police checkpoint in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, a report says.
TEHRAN, August 24 -Britain’s leading tour operator Thomas Cook has decided to evacuate all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea tourist town of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in unexplained circumstances.
TEHRAN, August 23 - Egyptian authorities have detained three leading opposition figures, including a former senior diplomat, as part of an ongoing crackdown in the country.
TEHRAN, August 19 - An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a plane and diverting it to Cyprus has been sent back from the Mediterranean island to his homeland after a two-year extradition battle, officials said Sunday.
TEHRAN, August 14 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a rare, secret visit to Egypt in May for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israeli television reported Monday.
TEHRAN, August 13 - The Egyptian security services detained an accomplice of the perpetrator of the recent failed terrorist act at a church in Cairo, local media reported.
TEHRAN, August 12 -Egyptian police forces have killed 12 suspected members of a terror outfit affiliated to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the north of the Sinai Peninsula during an intense gunfight in the region, the interior ministry says.
TEHRAN, August 11 -An explosive attack against a church on the outskirts of Cairo was foiled Saturday when a bomber blew himself up before reaching the target, state media and security sources said.
TEHRAN, August 5 -The Egyptian military has killed at least 52 militants in recent days across the Sinai Peninsula in line with a push for the elimination of the Daesh Takfiri terrorists there.
TEHRAN, July 28 - US_An Egyptian court said on Saturday it would transfer the cases of 75 people accused of security-related offences, including senior Muslim Brotherhood figures, to Egypt’s top religious authority to decide whether they should be sentenced to death.
TEHRAN, July 21 - Egypt has condemned as racist a law recently adopted by the Israeli parliament that declares the occupying entity “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” warning that the legislation undermines peace efforts in the region.