Iran deems “unacceptable” the Egyptian army's toppling of the country's first freely elected president Mohamed Mursi, the foreign ministry said on Monday. “The intervention of armed forces in political affairs is unacceptable and disturbing,” ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told the Mehr news agency, when asked about the developments in Egypt. “It
Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb said on Monday that he will go into seclusion until violence ends after the death of more than 50 people were killed in an attack outside the Republican Guard building. Tayyeb said he would “remain in seclusion in his house until all the spilling of Egyptian blood ends and
An Egyptian soldier was killed on Sunday by unidentified gunmen in the northern Sinai town of El-Arish, Al Arabiya reported. Earlier in the day, armed men attacked four security checkpoints in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, close to Egypt’s border with Israel and Gaza, part of an upsurge of violence there since Wednesday’s overthrow
This week has been a particularly brutal one for the people of Egypt. Following days of escalating bloodshed and spiralling unrest, supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are accusing the military - which orchestrated his removal - of a massacre. At least 40 people were killed when troops opened fire on demonstrators near the Presidential
Egypt's prosecutor general ordered on Sunday the arrest of two high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood officials accused of inciting violence following the ouster of former president Mohammad Mursi, Youm 7 newspaper reported. Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagy are both accused of inciting violence against those who demonstrated outside the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo earlier this
Fears have been raised over the plight of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, after a series of attacks - including the assassination of a priest and an arson attack against a church - following the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-backed President, Mohammed Morsi. According to Al Masri al-Youm, 39 year-old Mena Aboud Sharoben was gunned down
Ziad Bahaa El-Din, founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, has been offered to become Egypt's new Prime Minister, sources told the website of the Egyptian daily Al Ahram on Sunday. Mohamed ElBaradei, who was a vocal critic of the Muslim Brotherhood rule, is set to be appointed as vice president, the newspaper
Egypt’s stock market opened higher on Sunday as some investors continued to cheer the ouster of President Mohamed Mursi, despite fresh political turmoil over the weekend. The main stock index opened 1.5 percent higher and was up 1.2 percent after several minutes of trade. Turnover was thin and buying focused on small-caps rather than
More than 30 people were reportedly killed in violence in Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula, over the weekend. The clashes are between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi on one side, and Egyptian security and Muslim Brotherhood opponents on the other. A video that is being featured on many websites and social networks shows
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said on Saturday that the fall of Mohamed Morsi is a blow to Hamas, the islamist terror movement that rules Gaza. He noted, however, that Israel's security arms had good relations with Morsi. "We had good relations on the security and intelligence levels with Morsi, as well," Aharonovich said.
