Syrian security head Ali Mamlouk made a rare visit to Cairo over weekend to meet with his Egyptian counterpart, state news agency SANA has reported.

Egyptian officials on Sunday said the director of its powerful military intelligence agency has been replaced by his deputy.

Eight alleged militants were killed in a fire exchange with the Egyptian security forces in several areas of Giza and Cairo, according to statement from the ministry of interior on Thursday.

On December 4, the Prosecutor General of Rome placed five members of the Egyptian police and the National Security Agency (NSA) on a list of suspects related to the abduction, torture, and murder of Giulio Regeni. Regeni was a Cambridge PhD candidate researching labor unions in Egypt.

A senior Egyptian intelligence delegation headed by General Ahmed Abdel-Khaliq visited Tel Aviv last week to deescalate tensions between the occupation and Palestinians in West Bank, Arabi21 revealed.

Tired of waiting for action from Cairo, Italy has named five members of Egypt’s security forces as suspects in the torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni, whose mutilated body was found in February 2016 on a road on the outskirts of Cairo. Meanwhile, Egyptian officials are pondering the …

The lawyer representing the family of Giulio Regeni says she has compiled a list of at least 20 people suspected of involvement in the death of the Italian PhD student, who was tortured and killed in Egypt nearly three years ago.

Egypt will convene a committee next month tasked with responding to, and trying to counter, claims of human rights abuses against the often-accused country.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Sudan’s Minister of Defence Awad Bin Owf on Tuesday, to discuss bilateral relations, according to a statement from the presidency spokesperson, Bassam Rady.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and his deputy to life in prison, judicial sources said, in a retrial over violence during the overthrow of Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.