The 27th Arab League Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania came to a close on Tuesday after several state leaders, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Saudi King Salman Al-Saud, failed to attend.

Egypt’s presidential office denied rumors on Monday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is not attending the Arab League summit in Mauritania this week due to a suspected assassination plot. Anonymous sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm the Egyptian intelligence had gained information about a planned attack on the president during his visit …

During the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to the African continent since Yitzhak Shamir’s in 1987, Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a tour beginning July 4 with a visit to Uganda, followed by Kenya and Rwanda, and concluding with Ethiopia. He was accompanied by a delegation of 80 …

CAIRO, Jul 11 (Aswat Masriya) – Director of the Andalus Institute Ahmed Samih spread false news about religious discrimination in Egypt, according to the court reasoning, which was released on Monday.

BRUSSELS – The head of the EU’s border agency voiced concern Tuesday that growing numbers of Europe-bound migrants were turning to Egypt as a departure point for their perilous sea journey. “Egypt is starting to become a departure country,” said Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the Funke …

The parents of slain Italian student Giulio Regeni appeared before the European Parliament on Wednesday, calling on its members to push Egypt to conduct a transparent investigation into his murder.

Almost half of the European Union member states have flouted an EU-wide suspension on arms transfers to Egypt, risking complicity in a wave of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances and torture, according to Amnesty International.

Judicial proceedings in the case of the independent NGO, the Belady Foundation for the support of street children were adjourned for the seventh time on Saturday – delaying these proceedings by another six months, until November 19.

An Egyptian court will resume its deliberations May 23 in a long-running, on again, off again human rights case that has placed the country at the center of an international controversy — again. The controversy revolves around a case that began in 2011 and supposedly ended in 2013, but that …

Spokespersons for both the European Union and the US State Department released statements on Monday regarding the security raid on Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate. Plainclothes officers stormed the syndicate Sunday night and arrested journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud Sakka, who had been summoned for questioning on charges of disseminating false information in their coverage of Egypt’s …