Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Category Archives: Egypt
Egypt’s Sisi may run for re-election
Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi for the first time on Tuesday publicly expressed his willingness to run for a second presidential term in the 2018 elections “if it is the will of the Egyptian people,” Ahram Online reported. Sisi announced his
Attacker killed after stabbing guard at Coptic church in Egypt
Egypt’s state news agency says a knife-wielding attacker has been shot and killed after he stabbed a guard at a Coptic church. MENA says the attack happened early on Wednesday at the Virgin Mary church in Cairo’s eastern suburb of
Egypt’s Sisi: Long-term armed conflict in Yemen should be avoided
During Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid Bin Daghr’s visit to Egypt. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi stressed the importance of avoiding a long-term armed conflict in Yemen, at a meeting in Cairo on Monday, the state-owned MENA agency reported. Sisi emphasized the importance
Egypt is hosting Libya talks to ease deadlock
Egypt is hosting high-profile talks among Libya’s top political and military figures aimed at resolving the war-ravaged country’s political deadlock, officials said Thursday. The head of Libya’s UN-brokered unity government, Fayez Serraj, has met over the past two days with
Two Egypt policemen killed in Sinai bombing
A roadside bombing in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed two policemen on Monday, the interior ministry said. The ISIS group’s self-styled Amaq news agency said a bomb planted by militants targeted a police mine clearing vehicle, but it was not clear
Investigators examine EgyptAir black boxes
Investigators have begun analyzing the two severely damaged black boxes from EgyptAir flight MS804 as they seek to explain why the plane plunged into the sea, killing all 66 people on board. It would require “lots of time and effort”
Mursi sentenced to life on espionage charges
An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced former Islamist President Mohammed Mursi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six co-defendants were handed death penalties. The court acquitted Mursi of charges of having supplied Qatar with classified documents but
Palestinians begin sea border talks with Egypt
The Palestinians have begun talks with Egypt on setting out the maritime borders of their hoped for future state and the resources they can extract from the sea, their UN ambassador to the United Nations said Friday. The goal is
French ship ends search effort for EgyptAir remains
A French naval ship is leaving the search for the remains of an EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean, now that another specialized undersea search vessel is in the area and has located wreckage. A French Navy official said
‘It was a hoax:’ EgyptAir jet lands after bomb threat
An EgyptAir flight to China was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after the airline received a call claiming that there was a bomb on board, two Egyptian aviation officials said. They said the plane, which
EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed to 2km
The search zone for the crashed EgyptAir flight recorders has been narrowed to 2 kilometers from 5 kilometers after a vessel picked up a signal from one of the black boxes, a source on the investigation committee said on Thursday.
Egypt sends robot submarine to hunt for EgyptAir jet
Egypt deployed a robot submarine on Sunday to hunt for the EgyptAir plane that crashed in deep Mediterranean waters, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, warning investigations into the disaster would take time. In his first public remarks on Thursday’s crash of
Egypt court recommends death for 6 defendants, but not Mursi
An Egyptian court recommended death sentences on Saturday for six codefendants of Mohammad Mursi but not for the ousted Islamist president in their trial on espionage charges. The presiding judge in the trial asked the mufti — the country’s official
Memos from Egypt’s Interior Ministry leaked
Memos from Egypt’s Interior Ministry that were leaked to the media on Tuesday outline strategies for deflecting public outrage over recent arrests and suggest a gag order on the case of an Italian student abducted and killed in Cairo. Documents
Egypt police block labor day assembly, workers urge freedoms
Egyptian police prevented hundreds of workers from holding a meeting in Cairo to commemorate International Workers’ Day on Sunday, while independent trade union leaders urged the government to allow them freedom of assembly. Kamal Abbas, of the Center for Trade
Egypt’s security forces disperse small protests against Sisi
Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and arrested scores of people to disperse small protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, deterring what activists had hoped would be large demonstrations, witnesses and security sources said. Earlier this month, thousands
Egyptian police fire tear gas, birdshot at Cairo protesters
Police fired tear gas and birdshot on Monday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down over his government’s decision to surrender control over two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The violence in
Sisi urges citizens to defend Egypt from ‘evil forces’
Egypt’s president urged citizens to defend the state and its institutions from the “forces of evil” on Sunday, a day before planned demonstrations against his policies, including the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. In a widely
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