Alwaght - Turkey-Egypt relations in past few years have gone through a series of highs and lows with the major reason being the political changes in Egypt and Turkeys way of dealing with them. The two countries first severed diplomatic ties in 1954 when Ankara declined to recognize the revolutionary government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The two countries ...

Egypts first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar and escaping from prison during the countrys revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The sentence was issued on Saturday in the capital of Cairo by an Egyptian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has died, unconfirmed reports said on Wednesday. Several Independent sources said that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 87. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukri confirmed the revelation on his tweeter account minutes ago.     No other official confirmation ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The two sons of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were released from prison nearly four years after they were first arrested along with their father, authorities said. Security officials said the two, businessman Alaa and Mubarak's one-time heir apparent Gamal, walked free from Torah Prison in a southern Cairo suburb on Monday ...

[caption id="attachment_147680" align="alignright" width="157"] A protester carries Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, who was killed during a protest in Cairo on Saturday.[/caption] Cairo (CNN)A bleeding woman collapses on the ground. A police officer totes a weapon behind her. It's an image that spread rapidly on social media -- and fueled furor among activists ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will remain in detention while awaiting a retrial ordered Tuesday by a high court over embezzlement charges, state media reported. Mubarak's appeal against a three-year sentence handed to him over embezzlement was accepted by the court, as were those of his two sons, who were sentenced to ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Iranian dailies gave extensive coverage Tuesday to a press conference of Deputy Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei in which he touched on a wide range of issues ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Egypt's public prosecutor said Tuesday it would appeal a court ruling that dropped a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the country's 2011 uprising. "The prosecutor general has decided to appeal," it said in a statement, after a Cairo court on Saturday ordered the dropping of murder ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Remarks of the Supreme Leader in a meeting with a group of senior Navy officers in Tehran generated headlines in Iranian dailies on Monday. The hike in the value of dollar ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The international news story that made front-page headlines in Iranian dailies on Sunday was the ruling of an Egyptian court that dismissed all charges against the toppled ...

[caption id="attachment_110868" align="alignright" width="158"] Riot police attempt to break open the entrance of the al-Azhar University Campus during clashes with female university students, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, in Cairo's Nasr City district, March 19, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former President Hosni Mubarak, his Interior Minister Habib El-Adly and his top aides were all found not guilty in killing protesters in the January 2011 revolution. Mubarak and his two sons were also acquitted from all corruption charges, Ahram Online reported. Mubarak was acquitted of corruption charges involving selling natural ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans parliament speaker said Israels military assault on the Gaza Strip has posed a severe test for the new Egyptian government. Hosni Mubaraks government had a poor record for supporting the Palestinian people, however, during the 22-day (Israeli) war (on Gaza in 2008-2009) it allowed limited humanitarian assistance into the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Egyptian police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in Cairo on Saturday, as the country marked the anniversary of a 2011 uprising that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak. Police dispersed the protesters soon after they gathered outside a Cairo mosque, an AFP correspondent reported. They included both Islamist ...

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 (FNA)- The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was adjourned until February 8, as more officials are due to give their testimony. Mubarak, along with his former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly and six other security aides are being retried on charges of being responsible for the killing of peaceful demonstrators in the 2011 ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United Nations demanded the release of three leading anti-Mubarak activists jailed for organizing protests against Egypts interim government. In a Tuesday statement, Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called for the "immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners ...

(Reuters) -Egypton Saturday referred to trial deposed President Mohamed Mursi and 129 others including members of the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah on charges including killing policemen, a statement from the investigating judge said. The case, related to a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising against former President Hosni ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Egyptian prosecutor ordered the arrest of two prominent activists for inciting protests, a source in the prosecutor's office said on Wednesday, including one whose group helped lead the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The arrests of Ahmad Maher, head of the April 6 youth movement, and Alaa Abdel Fattah both ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Egypt's relations with the United States are "unsettled" as the country struggles to redefine its national interests vis--vis other countries, the foreign minister said. The U.S. was a close ally of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's longtime authoritarian ruler who was ousted in an uprising in early 2011. America counted on him to keep ...