Reuters- Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in a bomb attack on Saturday that targeted the local security chief two days before a presidential election. Five other people were wounded by the bomb, which was left under a car and blew up as police Major General Mostafa al-Nemr drove past, the Interior Ministry said. Nemr ...

Alwaght- Saudi regime is warming to Egypts banned group Muslim Brotherhood as it hopes that the Islamist group could help it get rid of Yemeni crisis. Signs of Saudi Arabia failure Signs of Saudi Arabias failure in its war against Yemeni army forces and Ansarullah resistant movement have started to show up. Five months after launching a full-scale ...

Alwaght- After removal of Mohammad Morsi, an Islamist president and top leader in Egypt Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013 and despite the succession of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has stepped up an iron fist policy against anti-military government opponents , Egypt has been obviously in chaotic conditions domestically and internationally. Suffering from ...

Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa-Eldin says the army-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood should pursue reconciliation. Bahaa-Eldin, who has been trying to encourage both sides to compromise, on Tuesday called for a political framework to help Egypt out of the ongoing unrest. "Ultimately this country needs to move towards a framework ...

A senior Iranian cleric has denounced life sentences for nearly 700 people in Egypt, saying such measures would make it easier for the Israeli regime to commit atrocities against Palestinians. Speaking in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi slammed an Egyptian courts decision to execute 683 members of the Muslim ...

[caption id="attachment_93882" align="alignright" width="223"] Relatives and families of members of Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi react after hearing the sentence, in front of the court in Minya, south of Cairo, April 28,2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim ...

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property. The group is among over 1,200 supporters of Mr Morsi on trial, including senior Brotherhood members. Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and others Friday, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison. A Saudi Interior Ministry statement said King Abdullah approved the findings of a committee entrusted with identifying extremist ...

Cairo Prosecutors Sunday accused deposed president Mohamed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guards as part of a plot to destabilise Egypt, at the second hearing of his trial for espionage. The trial, one of three that are under way against Morsi, is part of a relentless government crackdown targeting him and his Muslim Brotherhood ...

Rival political groups in Egypt are to mark the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising which ended in the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. Both supporters of the military-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood are set to take to the streets. The anniversary comes as tensions were heightened by a series of bombs in Cairo and clashes across ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - At least four people were killed as clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police flared up across Egypt on Friday, security sources said. The violence erupted a day before Egyptian authorities are expected to announce official results of this week's referendum on a new constitution, part of an army-backed transition ...

A rapprochement betweenHamasand Tehran is under way almost three years after a breach over the Palestinian party's refusal to back the Syrian government in the civil war, and amid its current political isolation following the demise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The rebuilding of the relationship is likely to dismay Israel and the US, which ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 1 (MNA) Egypt's government has increased its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in the country ordering the seizure of assets belonging to 572 members, senior judicial and security officials announced. On December 24, Cairo designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, linking the group to recent attacks on security forces ...

(Reuters) - Al Jazeera said Egyptian security forces arrested three of its journalists after the interior ministry accused the Qatar-based television channel of broadcasting illegally from a hotel suite together with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Jazeera's offices in Cairo have been closed since July 3 when they were raided by security forces ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Egyptian government ended hopes for reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhoodwhen declaring the group as a terrorist organization after a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people, experts said. While some experts downplayed the effect of the government's decision, others see it as the end of any hope for ...

(Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring with foreign groups, saying the allegations were "risible". The Brotherhood also reiterated calls for all nations to put pressure onEgyptto free Mursi a day afterthe public ...

The Egyptian police have arrested dozens of anti-coup protesters and fired teargas at thousands of Muslim Brotherhood activists and their supporters, demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The anti-coup protesters staged demonstrations in the capital Cairo and several other cities and towns after Friday prayers against a brutal ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Muslim Brotherhood supporters launched rallies in several Egyptian governorates following prayers on Friday leading to scattered clashes with opponents. Thousands marched in a number of Cairo districts, as well as in Alexandria, the Upper Egypt city of Assiut, the Nile Delta cities of Kafr El-Dawwar and Damietta, and the Suez Canal ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Lawyers in the UK have accused the Egyptian military and the country's interim government of crimes against humanity for the aftermath of the clashes since president Mohamed Mursi was ousted in July. In a report released on Saturday, the high-profile legal team accused the military of a number of crimes and human rights abuses. The ...

Dozens of people have been injured as thousands of supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, hold anti-military demonstrations across Egypt, security sources say. The violence in the city of Dakahliaerupted after Morsis opponents attacked the Muslim Brotherhood supporters rallying against his trial that will be held on Monday. In another ...