Four people were killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi on Monday, one in Cairo and three to its north, security and medical sources said. Two people died in clashes in Qalyub, north of Cairo, and a third was killed when he fell under the wheels of a
As thousands of Islamists massed for a third week at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya square, residents were beginning to lose patience with ousted president Mohamed Mursi’s supporters camped on their doorsteps. In the neighborhood of Nasr City, where the hot summer winds whip up the dust during the day, traffic grinds to a halt ahead
Black African refugees in Egypt are frustrated by ongoing racism and discrimination, particularly as they witness the assistance given to Arab refugees, the pan-Arab Aljazeera network reports. Sources told the network that they have few rights in Egypt. “Even if you’re a recognized refugee, and you have a blue card, you have no right
Syrian Kurdish rebels say they’ve captured the emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – the merged organization representing the jihadist Syrian rebel groups linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq. A photo of the captured leader was posted on the Twitter mini-social networking site by the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG),
The Hamas terrorist group which controls Gaza was quick to pour cold water on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would resume. "Hamas rejects Kerry's announcement of a return to talks and considers the Palestinian Authority's return to negotiations with the occupation to be
The biggest mistake deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi made was stopping wheat imports, Egypt’s new minister of supplies said, pledging to ensure that supplies of a strategic good like wheat do not reach the critically low levels they did during Mursi’s year in office. Mohamed Abu Shadi, a 62-year-old former police general
Egyptian security forces raided the office of an Iranian TV channel in Cairo and detained its director, Ahmed al-Sioufi, the media outlet reported on Saturday. “The security forces also seized equipment and devices from the channel without giving any explanation for these actions,” the Arab language satellite channel, Al Alam, said on its website.
Three women died and seven other people were wounded in clashes between loyalists and opponents of Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, medics said Saturday. AFP news agency cited a hospital official in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura as saying that the women were killed by “birdshot and stabbing attacks during
Two civilians were killed and a third wounded on Friday when suspected Islamist militants fired RPG rockets at an army checkpoint in el-Arish in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, Al Arabiya correspondent reported from Sinai. The assailants hit a residential house by mistake, and one of those killed had his legs and head blown off
Mohammed Mursi’s Islamist backers planned rallies in Egypt on Friday for his reinstatement, as his army-appointed successor said opponents wanted to plunge the country into “the unknown” and the military vowed to confront violent protests. The Islamists were to begin their pro-Mursi protests after weekly Friday prayers from 18 mosques across the capital,
