CAIRO (AA) – A senior Yemeni military official was found dead in Cairo, the Yemeni Embassy confirmed on Sunday. A statement by the embassy said Maj. Gen. Hassan bin Jalal al-Obaidi was found murdered in his apartment. The embassy said it is following up investigations with Egyptian security authorities into the killing. According to Yeme...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive Palestinians displaced from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, says a US media report. The Wall Street Journal article, citing Egyptian officials and security analysts, comes after a rights group reported Egypt was preparing “a high-security ga...
CAIRO (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for a historic official visit. Erdogan was welcomed at Cairo International Airport by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Türkiye’s Ambassador to Egypt Salih Mutlu Sen. This is the Turkish president’s first visit to Egypt since 2012. Accompany...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel faced growing international pressure on Tuesday to agree to a cease-fire with Hamas, as it prepared for an incursion into the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah where more than a million Palestinians are trapped. CIA Director William Burns met with Mossad chief David Barnea in Cairo Tuesday for a [&h...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has called for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and reiterated its rejection of the forced displacement of Palestinians from the enclave. The Egyptian call came following talks in Cairo between Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne. “Egypt reiterates its rejection of the forced displacemen...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 8,000 people in the Gaza Strip need medical evacuation and the vast majority of them have war-related injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “Medical referrals for critically injured and sick patients outside Gaza remain ad hoc and insufficient. An orderly, safe and sustained transfer ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian group Hamas on Thursday hailed Egypt’s position against Israeli threats over the Philadelphi Corridor on the border with the Gaza Strip. The Philadelphia Corridor is a narrow strip within the territory of the Gaza Strip, extending 14 km (8.7 miles) along the border between the enclave and Egypt. Under the 1979 [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt is a key partner in efforts for a two-state solution in the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and EU Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi held a joint news conference following a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. “We appreciate the crucial ...
CAIRO, Egypt (AA) – Egypt on Tuesday launched the construction of the fourth and final reactor in the country’s first nuclear power plant. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin virtually attended the launching ceremony of the new reactor in the Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (DNPP), the state-run A...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt said Sunday that it will not allow any threats to Somalia’s security amid tension with Ethiopia over a recent maritime deal between Addis Ababa and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. “No external actor will be permitted to threaten the Somali people or jeopardize their safety,” Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ...
