Tag: Cairo

Egyptians said on Wednesday that attitudes towards women need to change to end sexual violence in the north African country, after a high-profile gang...

Egypt and Qatar have agreed to resume diplomatic relations, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Wednesday, making Cairo the first to officially do so...

The head of a leading Egyptian human rights group who was held for two weeks on terrorism charges said on Saturday he hoped that...

A man set himself on fire in Egp in central Cairo on Thursday and was being treated for burns at a hospital in the...

A concert by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who has been repeatedly accused of rape, has been cancelled in Egypt after a social media outcry,...

Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, during a raid on an apartment in...

Essam el-Erian, a senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, died in prison in Cairo on Thursday after suffering a heart attack, prison sources, a...

Egypt will reopen all its airports for scheduled international traffic on 1 July, the civil aviation minister said on Sunday, after suspending regular commercial...

An Egyptian policeman and seven suspected militants died in an exchange of gunfire, the ministry of interior said in a statement. Three other policemen were...

Egypt’s interior ministry identified the perpetrator behind a car bombing outside Cairo’s main cancer hospital that killed more than 20 and injured dozens. It added...

Twenty people were killed and 47 injured when a car packed with explosives intended for a militant attack blew up outside a Cairo cancer...

A Sling light aircraft crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans supporting the U-Dream Foundation’s Cape to Cairo flight. The four-seater...

Air France, Emirates and Etihad Airways continue to operate flights to Cairo after British Airways and Lufthansa suspended services to Egypt’s capital. International Airlines Group’s...

A fire at the main train station in Egypt’s capital Cairo caused deaths and injuries, a security source and local media said. Photographs on social...

Three policemen were killed and five people wounded, three civilians, when an explosive device carried by a militant they were chasing detonated in central...

Egyptian security forces detained a man on Tuesday after an explosive device detonated near the U.S. Embassy in central Cairo, three security...

Egyptian security forces killed five suspected militants in a shootout in Qalyubiya province, north of Cairo, the interior ministry said in a...

An Egyptian court jailed 262 people from three years to life for security-related offences during a 2013 sit-in protest against the ousting...

One man was killed and three others injured in an explosion in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, the Interior Ministry said in...

Islamic State published a video on Sunday threatening Egyptian Christians and showing the last statement of a man it said was responsible...

A military court sentenced 141 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to up to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for ransacking public...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed at least 25 people. The militant...

A recently emerged Egyptian militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in Cairo on Friday that killed six policemen and wounded...

A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending...

A car bomb exploded in an eastern suburb of Cairo on Thursday evening, wounding two people, security sources said. It was not...

Egypt's foreign minister paid a rare visit to Israel on Sunday, offering Cairo's help to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, in...

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea,...

Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by...

Around 100 Egyptian journalists staged a protest in central Cairo on Tuesday against the arrest of colleagues for covering demonstrations opposing President...

Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Cairo security directorate on Thursday night after a policeman shot dead a man in...

Egyptian security forces killed two suspected Islamist militants during clashes in the upmarket Cairo district of Maadi on Wednesday, security sources said. Egypt...

An Italian student who went missing in Cairo has died and an investigation has been launched into signs of torture on his...

About 300 people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday, not to celebrate the instigators of the revolt that five years ago...

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Friday for a bomb attack that killed nine people in Cairo. In a statement on...

Nine people, including six policemen, were killed on Thursday in a Cairo suburb near the pyramids when a makeshift bomb went off...

A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 12 people and wounded six on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. One of the...

Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack at the Italian consulate in central Cairo on Saturday, in an escalation of...

A policeman was killed in a second straight day of bombings in Cairo and the leader of a militant group targeting police...

Two bombs exploded in Cairo's residential Imbaba district on Saturday, causing no casualties, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram newspaper said on its website. Ahram...

A bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo on Monday, wounding nine people, the Interior Ministry said, extending a...

One person was killed and five others including policemen were wounded when five bombs exploded in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. A...

One person was killed in an attack on a restaurant north of Cairo on Thursday, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. A fire...

Cairo airport authorities tightened security after finding two bombs near the arrivals hall and a homemade explosive device exploded in the centre...

A bomb wounded two Egyptian policemen in Cairo on Sunday and security forces moved quickly to disperse small protests on the anniversary...

The British embassy in Cairo suspended public services on Sunday for security reasons, an embassy spokesperson said. The embassy declined to give more...

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi plans to issue decrees to criminalise insults to Egypt's two "revolutions" of 2011 and 2013, a spokesman said...

Police fired tear gas and arrested 25 people on Wednesday in central Cairo where hundreds had gathered to commemorate dozens of protesters...

A homemade bomb exploded near the Supreme Court in downtown Cairo on Tuesday night, injuring 12 people while also destroying a car...

Three people were killed in a car bomb blast on Wednesday in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's state-run Nile Television...