Dr. Ibrahim Nagm Senior Advisor to Egypt’s Mufti said Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa will organize new programs at universities, schools and various places to disseminate awareness against extremism as part of his institution’s five-way plan.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that his priority is to fight political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood, considering cooperating in this regard with France, the New Khaleej reported yesterday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and President of the European Council Charles Michel on Thursday proposed establishing an international forum that gathers people from Islamic and European communities to fight extremism.

Eight men were executed yesterday in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death in a military court in May 2019 and accused of attacking three …

Egyptian media denied yesterday what was published about implementing the death sentence against a former army officer Hisham Al-Ashmawy after a military court convicted him of carrying out “terrorist attacks” against Egyptian police and army forces. Yesterday morning, Saudi Arabian channel Al-Arabiya in addition to Egyptian media including the online website of the …

The parliament approved on Monday amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Law No 94 of 2015 defining the terrorism financing, and sent them to the State Council for reviewal.

The Egyptian parliament’s Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee agreed to widen the scope of entities labeled as terrorists to include hostile television channels involved in promoting violence and terrorist activities.

The Council of Ministers approved Jan. 8 the draft amendments to Law No. 8 of 2015, with the goal of making more effective the measures to counter terrorism and terrorism financing. The amendments involve expanding the general prosecution’s powers of freezing the assets and funds of individuals and entities affiliated with terrorist groups or …

Egypt’s parliament approved Tuesday the final draft presented by the government to amend some provisions of the 2015 law on regulating lists of terrorist entities.

Egypt’s counter-terrorism and extremism efforts have reaped fruit, as the country was dropped out of the list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019, said the Observatory for Monitoring Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Ideologies at Dar al-Ifta.