by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | May 1, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo – An Egyptian court sentenced to death on Sunday hardline cleric Wagdi Ghoneim on charges of establishing and leading a terrorist cell. Ghoneim, a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, was sentenced in absentia. He currently lives in Turkey and is an outspoken...
by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Apr 15, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo- Egyptian security authorities have contained sectarian tension between Muslims and Christians in Upper Egypt and have arrested 15 people accused of involvement in the chaos that ensued a mass held by Christians in one of the village’s houses. These developments...
by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo – The Egyptian parliament approved the second cabinet reshuffle involving nine ministers. The cabinet reshuffle include the ministries of agriculture, legal and parliamentary affairs, supply and trade, local development, planning and administrative reform,...
by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Feb 5, 2017 | World
Cairo – Egypt’s interior ministry has finally admitted to the French reports that the suspect of the Louvre museum attack on Friday is Egyptian. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Saturday, through which it expressed Egypt’s condemnation of...
by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Jan 10, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo- Eight policemen and one civilian have been killed in clashes with terrorists that carried out simultaneous attacks on two checkpoints in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said. Witnesses told Asharq Al-Awsat that a huge blast...
