A march from Mohandessin to Ramses Square clashed with local residents and security forces on Friday. The march, which passed through Kit Kat Square, paused briefly in Sphinx Square, eyewitnesses reported.
The march crossed onto the 15th May Bridge (...)
Local residents and contractors have begun to clear the hastily erected barricades and take stock of the damage caused by clashes in Mohandessin on Wednesday following the clearing of pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins.
Relative calm has returned to the (...)
A vigil was held on Monday evening in the Nile Delta town of Beheira, state-run Al-Ahram reported. The demonstration was organised by political activists, the article continued, to protest the release of the suspect in a sexual harassment incident (...)
Thousands of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi marched in Cairo on Tuesday, under the banner of "Together against the Coup and the Zionists" in light of alleged Israeli involvement in the explosions in Sinai on Friday.
One such march, (...)
The Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Nahda square sit-ins were not dispersed by security forces on Monday morning, despite widespread rumours to the contrary.
Citing security sources and a government official, Reuters reported during the day on Sunday that (...)
Man rides a bike along one of the few dirt paths that cross the island, Photo by Aaron T. Rose
The island of Qorsaya, south of Manial and Zamalek in Egypt's capital is a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of the city's busy, traffic-infested (...)
The Anti-Coup Coalition announced further marches taking place on Sunday from a number of locations around Cairo. The marches are scheduled to depart from Old Cairo, Helwan Gardens, Nasr City and Downtown in the Cairo governorate, and converge at (...)
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius conveyed to his Egyptian counterpart France's readiness to help "with any political process" which would lead to a "reduction in confrontations." In a statement released by the French Ministry (...)
The Anti-Coup, Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance called on "the masses of the great Egyptian people" to march on Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Nahda Square after Friday prayers. In a statement released by the Muslim Brotherhood's English language website (...)
Ousted president Morsi's supporters began their marches on Friday after noon prayers from several locations across Cairo to converge on the ongoing sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adaweya in Nasr City and Nahda Square in Giza.
On Friday morning, the Anti-Coup, (...)
Contrary to reports by the Israeli press and wire services, the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman's office confirmed to the Daily News Egypt that there was no evidence of an Israeli missile strike in the Sinai, near the Egyptian-Israeli border.
Two (...)
Nabil Fahmy told Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans that all decisions in Egypt are made by the government and are not influenced by external sources.
The ministers Fahmy and Timmermans discussed a range of domestic issues in a meeting on (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy conveyed his "deep regrets" over the Israeli government's approval of the latest plans for construction in the West Bank in a statement released on Wednesday.
The approved plans, as reported by Israeli (...)
Interim president Adly Mansour announced the framework of the commission tasked with amending the constitution, state-run Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday. Citing Article 29 of the constitutional declaration of 8th July, a commission comprising 50 (...)
Security forces stationed in Al-Arish, North Sinai, were attacked on Monday by groups of militants wielding automatic weapons, resulting in the death of one soldier and leaving four other soldiers injured.
Conscript Bakr Mohamed Elewa was killed (...)
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, set out preconditions for progression in a statement released on Tuesday.
The principle precondition outlined in the statement is the restoration of "constitutional (...)
The Anti-Coup Coalition said in a Monday statement they had received information of "the putchists' plot to set off explosions," which would then be blamed on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi "in preparation for a violent crackdown."
The (...)
Judge Shereen Fahmy began questioning the 75 judges accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a report by state-owned Al-Ahram released on Monday read. The accusations had been raised by other members of the Judges Club, which is the de (...)
Thousands of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi marched to Cairo's High Court on Monday, to demand the return of the deposed president, the release of prisoners and in general protest of the "military coup".
Demonstrators held copies of (...)
The leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, released a recorded audio message on Friday, in which he accused various parties of conspiring to overthrow former president Mohamed Morsi.
The video was posted originally to a jihadist website, state-run (...)
A photographer working for Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said he was assaulted at the press centre at Rabaa Al-Adaweya and that his camera was stolen, in an account posted on his personal Facebook page on Thursday.
Tarek Wajeh was photographing the (...)
Ex- Prime Minister Hisham Qandil will be imprisoned for one year, state-run Al-Ahram reported on Wedneday. Qandil, who was tried by a court in Dokki, had been sentenced for failing to execute a court order pertaining to the reinstatement of (...)
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, but was not granted a request to meet ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
Al-Ahram reported that Westerwelle had received "no response from the Egyptian presidency" regarding his (...)
The Anti-Coup Coalition marched on Tuesday against "yet another massacre against humanity", referring to violence Saturday in which over 70 people were killed close to Rabaa Al-Adaweya.
A largely female rally gathered at Al-Nour Mosque in Abbaseya (...)
Nabil Fahmy, former ambassador to the United States and the current interim foreign minister, met with the international press on Sunday in order to explain the "reality" of the situation in Egypt, and called for an end to violence.
According to a (...)