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Researchers in Egypt using advanced scanning techniques to study the Pyramids said this week that they had detected “thermal anomalies” within the Great Pyramid of Giza that could indicate the presence of an undiscovered tomb.
The Egyptian military on Tuesday released the journalist Hūsām Bahgat, hours beore planned demonstrations in Cairo, London and other cities to call for his freedom.
Egyptian military intelligence on Sunday detained an investigative journalist who is also the founder of Egypt's premier human rights group on charges of publishing false news, raising alarms about attempts to suppress domestic dissent as the government grapples with questions about the crash of a...
At least four police officers were killed on Wednesday morning when a suicide bomer detonated an explosives-packed vehicle next to a police club in northern Sinai, according to the Egyptian state news media. The Islamic State's local affiliate, called Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for the...
A program that provided more than three million Egyptians with free access to Internet services was abruptly shut down on Wednesday, according to Facebook, the social media company that provided the program in cooperation with Egyptian cellphone company.
Over the past two days, the Egyptian authorities have shut down an internationally respected art gallery and raided an independent publishing house in what free-speech advocates said Tuesday were the latest moves in an expanding crackdown on dissent that now includes cultural spaces popular with...
Nilewater is becoming scarce and it is clear that a cooperative agreement among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt is needed to avoid conflict and downstream harm.  In May 2015, the three countries engaged technical consultants to assist with these problems, but that arrangement has since collapsed over...
Excerpts: "WASHINGTON — Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not...
Below is the full texts of foreign newspapers reports about clashes occurred at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Egypt.
Friedman writes in response to the Ibrahim verdict that Egypt "is in danger of becoming a banana republic." "That is the only conclusion one can draw from the show trial that ended this week, in which Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian democracy scholar who also holds a U.S. passport, was sentenced to...
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