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  • Egypt's Mufti says Daesh should not be called

    Egypt's Mufti says Daesh should not be called "Islamic State"

    Date: 2016-10-04 07:09:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5706421

    Egypt’s Mufti Shawki Allam on Monday rejected referring to the Daesh terrorist group as "the Islamic State group," stressing that terrorist acts should not be attributed to Islam. "Daesh is not a state, but they are terrorists who displaced ....

  • Khartoum: Libya pledged to resolve problem of 1,200 stranded Sudanese at Tobruk

    Khartoum: Libya pledged to resolve problem of 1,200 stranded Sudanese at Tobruk

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:50:35 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:5700965

    The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Monday said it has received assurances from the Libyan government to resolve the problem of as many as 1,200 Sudanese who are stranded at Massaed crossing in Libya's Tobruk. Sudan's "Al-Rai Al-Am" newspaper quoted ....

  • Arab League condemns Houthi attack on aid ship

    Arab League condemns Houthi attack on aid ship

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:42:09 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:5700921

    The Secretary General of the Arab League condemns a Houthi attack that targeted an Emirati ship carrying aid Saturday in the Bab al-Mandab strait, a spokesman said Sunday. In a statement, Spokesman for the AL chief Mahmoud Afifi said such terror ....

  • EgyptAir says no employees investigated so far over Manhattan bag

    EgyptAir says no employees investigated so far over Manhattan bag

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:15:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5700789

    EgyptAir said it has not received any comments from the US authorities over reports that two EgyptAir in-flight security employees opened a bag on a Manhattan street that was later reported to contain a bomb. All EgyptAir employees, especially ....

  • Arab jets strike military academy in Sanaa

    Arab jets strike military academy in Sanaa

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:01:17 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:5700669

    Arab Coalition jets continued to strike the premises of the military academy in al Rawda district in northern Sanaa. This is the third time the coalition has hit the premises. Eyewitnesses say they heard the sound of five strong explosions ....

  • SANA: Syrian Air Force launches airstrikes against Jaish al Fatah militants in Hama, Idleb

    SANA: Syrian Air Force launches airstrikes against Jaish al Fatah militants in Hama, Idleb

    Date: 2016-10-01 13:03:24 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:5692457

    The Syrian Air Force on Saturday launched airstrikes against positions and gatherings of Jaish al Fatah militants in Hama and Idleb. The strikes destroyed tanks and vehicles for Jaish al Fatah in Hama, killed a number of its members and injured ....

  • Court to examine SLA appeal against Tiran and Sanafir islands ruling Saturday

    Court to examine SLA appeal against Tiran and Sanafir islands ruling Saturday

    Date: 2016-10-01 12:55:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5692389

    Egypt’s Administrative Court has set next Saturday as a date to examine an appeal filed by the State Lawsuits Authority against a recent court ruling about the invalidity of the Tiran and Sanafir islands transfer agreement. In the appeal, the ....

  • Sisi, CBE governor review financial, monetary reforms

    Sisi, CBE governor review financial, monetary reforms

    Date: 2016-10-01 12:42:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5692313

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi convened on Saturday with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Tareq Amer. Amer posted the president on the outcome of his talks in Germany on means of promoting financial cooperation between the two countries in ....

  • Naval forces arrest 12 on board trawler carrying illegal drugs

    Naval forces arrest 12 on board trawler carrying illegal drugs

    Date: 2016-09-29 15:56:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5684065

    Maritime forces on Thursday managed to arrest 12 persons on board a fishing boat, carrying amounts of illegal drugs near Sidi Barrani town. The naval troops also rescued a tourist on board a boat in Red Sea Governorate after he had severely ....

  • Irrigation minister probes with new Dutch Amb. in Cairo vistas of joint cooperation

    Irrigation minister probes with new Dutch Amb. in Cairo vistas of joint cooperation

    Date: 2016-09-29 14:00:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:5683289

    Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Atti on Thursday met with the newly-appoined Dutch Ambassador to Egypt Laurens Westhoff. The meeting was held at the behest at the Dutch diplomat and aimed at probing ways of promoting ....

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