Egypt has sworn in its latest interim government with 12 new ministers and 18 old faces.

Egypt has sworn in its latest interim government with 12 new ministers and 18 old faces.

CAIRO, Feb 26 (Aswat Masriya) Egypt’s interim President Adli Mansour issued a decree on Wednesday that a national security council be formed.

CAIRO, Feb 26 (Aswat Masriya) Egypt’s new prime minister began consultations over forming the new cabinet on Wednesday, informed sources told Aswat Masriya.

CAIRO, Feb 26 (Aswat Masriya) Egypt’s new prime minister began consultations over forming the new cabinet on Wednesday, informed sources told Aswat Masriya.

Egypt’s army chief field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will remain as defense minister in the new government, an official source told Reuters news agency on Wednesday.

Newly elected Dostour Party leader Hala Shukrallah said in a presser on Tuesday that her party has not yet decided on a position vis-à-vis the presidential elections, but will not support state representatives.

Egypt’s interim government was accused of attempting to return the country to the Mubarak era on Monday, after the country’s interior ministry announced the resurrection of several controversial police units that were nominally shut down following the country’s 2011 uprising and the interim prime minister was given the power to …

The second wave of the Egyptian uprising that led to the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, took many by surprise. Besides its massive size and scope, the June 30 demonstrations revealed a significant change in the police’s handling of anti-regime protests. Unlike their vicious reaction …

As Egypt teeters on the verge of a catastrophic confrontation, it is difficult to discern who has been more short-sighted: an arrogant Muslim Brotherhood that misread electoral gains for a political blank-check or a reckless opposition that has appeared ready to sink the country in order to bring down the …