Egypt, UAE accused of airstrikes in Libya ‘without US consent’
A man looks at smoke rising following an airstrike in Libya. Senior US officials have said that Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are behind multiple airstrikes in Libya that targeted Islamist...
View ArticleHidden Camera Shows Haunting Stares Women Face on Egypt’s Streets
Creepers on the Bridge from Tinne Van Loon on Vimeo. While once upon a time Egyptian men and women could walk carefree along the Nile River and on the bustling streets of Egypt, today women walking...
View ArticleEgypt to host donors conference for Gaza reconstruction
A girl salvages a toy from her destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike during the conflict. Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Wednesday that Egypt will be hosting a donors conference...
View ArticleIslamic State calls for beheadings, bombings in Egypt
Still from a video released earlier this year by ISIS from Iraq. The Islamic State (IS) has called for intensified attacks against Egypt, including bombings and beheadings. In a statement released less...
View ArticleEgypt’s Intervention in Libya
Archive: A rebel fighter looks at a burning vehicle after an air strike, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011 (Reuters / Goran Tomasevic) When asked if Egypt would provide...
View ArticleFor The Next 19 Weeks, This Saudi Activist Will Be Lashed 950 Times
Raif Badawi, a 30-year-old blogger and activist, was flogged 50 times yesterday after Friday prayers in the first session of his flogging that will last 19 weeks and see him be lashed a total of 1,000...
View ArticlePalestine Will Not Exist Declares Israel’s Prime Minister
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed he would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state if re-elected into office. The statement, which Haaretz reports contradicts a 2009...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About The Rohingya Tragedy
The Rohingya are Muslims that come from Myanmar (formerly Burma). They are thought to be descended from Muslim traders who settled there more than 1,000 years ago into Myanmar. For a number of years...
View ArticleEgypt Minister Calls for International Law to Criminalize Contempt of Religion
Credit: Reuters Egypt’s minister for religious endowments called for the issuance of an “international law to criminalise contempt of religion” on Sunday. A ministry official spoke on behalf of...
View ArticleAmal Clooney Lashes Out At Egypt After Al-Jazeera Journalists Imprisoned
Marwa Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy’s wife, upon hearing the verdict which sentenced her husband to three years in prison. Photo: Amr Nabil/AP Prominent international lawyer Amal Clooney has criticized...
View Article11 Arrested for Protesting Against Egypt’s Declaration of ‘Sanafir and Tiran’...
Tiran Island. At least 11 people have been arrested for “protesting without a permit” against Egypt’s recent decision to declare two disputed islands, Sanafir and Tiran, as Saudi Arabian territory,...
View ArticleArab League Secretary General Calls for ‘Special Criminal Court’ for Israel
Outgoing Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi called for a special criminal court to be established for Israel, reported Agence France Presse. The call for a special criminal court, in the...
View ArticleTrump’s Immigration Ban Will Not Stop Terrorism
President Donald Trump speaks following the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense at the Pentagon in Washington, on Jan. 27, 2017. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images By imposing a...
View Article‘Any Military Intervention in Libya by Egypt Will Be According to...
During his inspection tour of Egypt’s army forces in the Western Military Zone, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi stated that “any military intervention by Egypt will be according to principles...
View ArticleEgypt Denounces Israeli Assault on Jenin
Photo of Jenin refugee camp, located in the Occupied West Bank, following Israeli strike on July 3, 2023. AFP The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) strongly condemned the attack carried out by the...
View ArticleA World Court for (Some) Criminals? How the ICC Works
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan (left) with former prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (right). Courtesy of the International Criminal Court. Can those who commit the most heinous of crimes be convicted for their...
View ArticleOver 1400 Dead in Gaza Bombing, Blinken in Israel, Egypt Denies Rafah...
As the conflict between Hamas and Israel enters its sixth day, with a combined death toll of over 2500, people in Gaza continue to go without water or electricity as Israel bombs the strip in what...
View ArticlePalestine-Israel: Differentiating Between Self-Defense, Genocide, and Ethnic...
The terms “self-defense,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing” have been commonly used in light of recent events in Gaza and Israel. Numerous journalists, commentators, and other individuals have raised...
View ArticleEgypt Condemns Gaza Ceasefire Collapse, Calls for International Action to...
Egypt expressed its “strong condemnation” of the collapse of the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the resumption of intense Israeli airstrikes and military operations targeting the...
View ArticleEgypt’s Sisi Meets Jordan’s King Abdullah, Discuss Gaza and Palestinian...
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi welcomed Jordan’s King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein to Cairo on 27 December for a one-day summit between the two states. The two leaders engaged in discussions...
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