As a US presidential candidate and as president, Joe Biden indulged in grandiloquent statements about human rights and democracy around the world. He identified the struggle between democracy and autocracy as a defining challenge of our times, vowing that “favourite dictators”, as former President Donald Trump dubbed Egyptian President Abdel …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated a naval base on Saturday 135 km from the border with Libya, flanked by close ally Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Libya’s unity president, reports Reuters.

Egypt’s president has asked his defence minister to assign a military officer to “each and every village” in Egypt.

The headlines emblazoned across nearly all state and private newspapers in Egypt today, June 30, are emblazoned with praise for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and laud the “new republic,” a term Sisi himself used in a speech several months ago to describe the scope of his ambition to transform Egypt.

Political analysts have cast doubts over the ability of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan to move ahead with their plan to establish a new regional alliance after a summit that brought together the leaders of the three countries last week.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has refrained from issuing a presidential pardon within the two-week period allocated for him to do so to stop a number of Muslim Brotherhood members from facing the death penalty.

The Israelis held captive in Gaza must be returned, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi when the two men held their first conversation on Monday as efforts continued toward a permanent cease fire between the IDF and Hamas.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II have met in Baghdad, during the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.

US lawmakers and human rights groups are calling on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to commute the planned executions of a dozen members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were charged with hundreds of others in a “sham” mass trial.

Egypt stands with Greece against any attempts to breach its sovereignty, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday.