Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil resigned on Monday, addressing the resignation letter to ousted President Mohammad Morsi and decrying the military coup against him, reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu. "I prepared this resignation to present it to his excellence President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday," Qandil said in a statement accompanying his resignation letter.
As the death toll rises in clashes between Egypt’s army and pro-Morsi protesters, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Gaza terrorists are infiltrating the Sinai to attack Egyptian army outposts. Although the army has sealed at least 50 tunnels in the past two weeks, hundreds remain open and active under the border between Egypt and Gaza. A
Palestinian Authority factions Hamas and Fatah are at it again. Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf on Sunday accused Hamas of being responsible for Egypt closing the Rafiah border crossing with Gaza. Egypt decided to close the crossing, he claimed, because Hamas had intervened in Egypt's internal affairs in favor of its parent movement the Muslim
Clashes that led to the death of at least 42 people outside the Egyptian Republican Guard’s headquarters in Cairo will not halt efforts to form a new government, presidency spokesman Ahmed Elmoslmany said on Monday. “What happened will not stop steps to form a government or the [political] roadmap,” he said, adding that the
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
