While other places are enforcing stricter immigration policies, Africa is attempting to defy its internal borders by creating an electronic African passport, which would allow holders to easily travel from one country to another without acquiring a (...)
Egypt has reservations about dealing with the current Turkish regime that insists on adopting a floundering regional foreign policy, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ahmed Abou Zaid said.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (...)
During his visit to Uganda on Monday to commemorate a risk operation carried out by Israeli commandos 40 years ago in Entebbe airport, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed to the changes in Israeli-African relations, saying that "Africa (...)
The John Lethbridge vessel rented by the Egyptian government to search for debris and human remains of the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has finished collecting all human remains from the crash site, according to an official statement by the (...)
The United States and Russia held a conversation over the possibility of increasing cooperation in ending the five-year civil war in Syria, which has led to the death of 400,000 people.
The US secretary of state John Kerry and his Russian (...)
The investigation committee of the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 said Saturday that the examination carried out on the electronic components of the aeroplane's cockpit voice recorder (CVR( showed that none of its memory chips were damaged.
However, (...)
The Paris prosecution opened a manslaughter inquiry on Monday into the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804, saying that there is no evidence of terrorism up until now.
French authorities are not in favour of the theory that the aeroplane was brought down (...)
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a letter of apology to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that expressed sorrow over the downing of a Russian air jet by Turkey last year.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildrim said Tuesday that Turkey (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said that Brexit is a huge event that will lead to several reactions on an economic level, during an iftar with Egyptian newspaper editors.
Shoukry pointed out that at the beginning of such (...)
The leader of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Haftar has arrived in Russia on Monday to discuss Libya's current development, according to Russia's news agency Sputnik.
The agency reported that Haftar had been visiting Cairo, along with nine of his (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu announced on Monday that the recent deal with Turkey will not invalidate the current Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza strip.
During a press conference in Rome, Netanyahu said the continued blockade will (...)
The Iraqi forces have seized the last remaining strongholds of Islamic State (IS) in Fallujah after five weeks of fighting.
"We convey the good news to the Iraqi people that the battle of Fallujah is over," Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab Al-Saidi (...)
Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Friday that Moscow hopes flights to Egypt will be restored by the beginning of summer, reported the state news agency TASS.
Bogdanov added that Russia and Egypt are actively working in this (...)
A Belgian guard working in a nuclear facility was killed and his access badge was stolen two days after the deadly Brussels attacks that killed 31 people, according to Belgian media.
The access badge was deactivated as soon as the police discovered (...)
Egypt's Foreign Ministry condemned Friday's terrorist attack on a football pitch in Iraq.
The ministry's spokesperson said in an official statement on Saturday: "Egypt condemns all forms of terrorism which target the unity of Iraq."
"Egypt supports (...)
Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry requested on Tuesday that Libya's parliament hold an urgent meeting in order to authenticate the newly formed government of national unity.
Along with representatives from other Arab countries at a meeting in (...)
Belgium media denied earlier reports that said a third suspect, Najim Laachraoui, in the Brussels attacks has been arrested.
At a Wednesday press conference, Belgium's top prosecutor Frederic van Leeuw said Laachraoui did not detonate his bomb, (...)
A wave of explosions rocked Brussels on Tuesday, killing at least 34 civilians and injuring over a hundred others in a suspected terrorist attack at the Zaventum Brussels Airport and the Maelbeek metro station.
Belgium raised its terror alert to (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi placed a strong emphasis on bridging the gap between theorisation and reality, during a meeting with prominent writers and thinkers including Youssef Al Qaeed, Abdallah Al-Sinnway, Gaber Asfour, and others.
The writers (...)
A media agency related to the "Islamic State" (IS) announced that the terror group is responsible for the attacks in Brussels, which killed at least 34 and left more than 100 injured.
"The militia of [IS] carried out a series of explosions on (...)
Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said Sunday that Egypt and Sudan are working to unify their stance on several regional issues, pointing to the Sudanese support of the Egyptian candidate for the position of Arab League secretary-general, (...)
The Russian armed forces general staff requested an urgent meeting with US officials to agree on a mechanism for monitoring the current ceasefire in Syria, noting that Russia will act alone if US does not comply.
"Further delays with implementing of (...)
The UN envoy to Libya Martin Kopler on Saturday briefed Egypt on the latest developments in the Libyan arena.
Kopler held a meeting with the Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister for Neighbouring Countries' Affairs Osama Al-Magdoub in which they (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is to meet with the Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir on Sunday.
According to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, Shoukry is to deliver a message from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to (...)
As contesting parties in the Syrian war gather in Geneva for peace talks, the government's negotiators are facing pressure to discuss the fate of Syrian president Bashar Al- Assad.
The topic is unavoidable, despite the government's negotiators (...)