Some U.S. lawmakers are calling for the Obama administration to shut off aid to Egypt in the aftermath of the army’s lethal crackdown on protesters. But untangling the aid relationship with Cairo would not be simple and could be costly for the United States as well as Egypt. A special financing arrangement Cairo
Egypt’s tourism industry was facing meltdown on Friday as foreign governments ordered visitors to stay in their hotels and tour operators began cancelling trips to the crisis-hit country. Fears of nationwide unrest in the wake of a violent crackdown by the military-backed interim government earlier this week have resulted in a string of countries
A number of international companies have suspended operations in Egypt as three days of violent street battles make the streets of Cairo unsafe. General Motors Co., Electrolux AB, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Toyota Motor Corp., Suzuki Motor Corp., BASF SE and others shut down facilities and told thousands of workers to stay at
The official death toll in the clashes that took place between the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood Wednesday has topped 500, and the actual number could be in the thousands. The Egyptian Health Ministry said Thursday that 525 people were killed a day earlier, when security forces stormed Islamist protest camps in Cairo
The Egyptian Health Ministry has revised the death toll in deadly clashes from 278 to 525, as the country emerges from its most violent and bloody period since the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Officials said that 43 of the dead were police officers. More than 3,500 people have
Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt on Thursday after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, in the worst nationwide bloodshed in decades. Islamists clashed with police and troops who used bulldozers, teargas and live fire
The United States hinted on Wednesday it was considering cancelling a joint military exercise with Egypt, as Secretary of State John Kerry denounced the violence in the country as “deplorable”. A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Reuters news agency that the possibility of scrapping the biennial "Bright Star" exercise
the last few minutes, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has claimed the bombing attack which injured four Israeli soldiers on the border with Lebanon last week, saying his party "will face" any further border violations by the Jewish state. The Lebanese army had claimed that the four soldiers were located 400 meters inside Lebanese territory
among the “collateral damage” victims of the ongoing violence in Egypt are the country's Coptic Christians. Living on the tentative goodwill of the Muslim majority even during the best of times, the community has been the subject of attacks and persecution over the past year, since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, and the subsequent fall
Egyptian security forces have taken complete control of Rabaa al-Adawiya square, the main protest camp set up by supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi, the state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday. MENA added that armed supporters of Mursi were arrested and the rest were given a safe passage. A security source said
