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...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 14, 2017 | World
A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game this morning at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, police, and witnesses said. At least five people were injured, including House of Representatives...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 15, 2017 | Middle East
Egyptian Copts will celebrate Easter mass on Saturday in subdued fashion a week after the deadliest attacks against the country’s religious minority left 45 people dead in two cities north of Cairo. Usually one of the most joyous occasions on the Christian calendar,...
by Walid Abdul Rahman, Dalia Assem and Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 13, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo, Alexandria – The terrorism in the world is not a result of any religion, but it is an intellectual and psychological disease that is always seeking excuses for its existence, said Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb. He told Asharq Al-Awsat: “Terrorism...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 9, 2017 | Middle East
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by extremists. The first bombing, took place in the Nile Delta town of Tanta in a church...
