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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gives an address after the gunmen attack in Minya, at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017 REUTERS

ISIS Cell Captured in Cairo, Seven Armed Men Killed in Assiut

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jun 23, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Egypt will extend a national state of emergency for three months after the government approved President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s proposal to do so. While the Egyptian authorities captured a terrorist cell that adopts the ISIS intellect and arrested its...

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Muslim Brotherhood supporters demonstrate and hold the group’s flag. Reuters

Egypt Forms a Committee to Manage Funds of 1,553 Muslim Brotherhood Members

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jun 15, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – The Cairo Criminal Court decided Wednesday to form a committee headed by the Ministry of Justice, Ministries of Interior, Finance, Social Solidarity and Local Development, Central Bank and the National Security Apparatus to hand over and manage all...

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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (L) speaks with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa before the opening of the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, in the South Sinai governorate, (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egypt, Bahrain Say Qatar Isolated for Harming Arab Security

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jun 9, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – Following talks on Wednesday with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz in Riaydh, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa continued his regional tour and arrived in Cairo on Thursday on a two-day official visit, during which he met with...

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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a joint news conference with Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir (not seen) in Khartoum June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Sisi: Egypt will Remain an Example of Peaceful Coexistence

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jun 2, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said Thursday that his country would remain a model of coexistence between the different confessions. He also stressed Egypt’s keenness to promote the values of pluralism and tolerance, underlining the “long history of...

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An image grab taken from Egypt’s state-run Nile News TV channel on May 26, 2017 shows people inspecting the remains of a bus that was attacked while carrying Egyptian Christians in Minya province. AFP

Terrorism Continues to Target Egypt and its Copts

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | May 27, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- A terrorist attack struck Egypt and its Coptic Christians again on Friday leaving 29 people, mostly children, dead and dozens injured when armed men intercepted a bus transporting Christians to the Saint Samuel monastery in Minya province. An interior ministry...