Egyptian General

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in Cairo Wednesday there is no option other than a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and efforts to reach it should be preserved.

Egyptian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir says the military has pursued and killed two "terrorist elements" and injured another in northern Sinai, where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency by a local ISIS affiliate.

When Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed the unpopular Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, billionaire Naguib Sawiris promised to invest in his country like never before. Two years on he has no desire to spend.

A former intelligence officer who heads the largest loyalist coalition running in Egypt's upcoming elections expects his bloc to lead the new parliament and eventually seek to curb the legislature's wide-ranging powers.

An Egyptian court on today upheld a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the country's 2011 uprising.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is "alarmed" by an Egyptian court's decision yesterday to sentence 682 alleged Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death and fears it could impact the entire region, his spokesman said.

Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi protested across Egypt on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted him on July 3.

A police general was killed when Egyptian security forces stormed a village on the outskirts of Cairo today in the latest crackdown on Islamist militants, security officials said.

As military jets periodically screamed over Cairo, even performing a formation salute with coloured smoke trails, many Egyptians took pains to stress that the toppling of their elected president, announced by a general, was not a "coup".

An Egyptian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention. The court denied the humiliating tests even took place, despite a ruling by another court and admissions by generals quoted by a leading rights group.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in Cairo Wednesday there is no option other than a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and efforts to reach it should be preserved.

Egyptian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir says the military has pursued and killed two "terrorist elements" and injured another in northern Sinai, where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency by a local ISIS affiliate.

When Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed the unpopular Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, billionaire Naguib Sawiris promised to invest in his country like never before. Two years on he has no desire to spend.

A former intelligence officer who heads the largest loyalist coalition running in Egypt's upcoming elections expects his bloc to lead the new parliament and eventually seek to curb the legislature's wide-ranging powers.

An Egyptian court on today upheld a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the country's 2011 uprising.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is "alarmed" by an Egyptian court's decision yesterday to sentence 682 alleged Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death and fears it could impact the entire region, his spokesman said.

Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi protested across Egypt on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted him on July 3.

A police general was killed when Egyptian security forces stormed a village on the outskirts of Cairo today in the latest crackdown on Islamist militants, security officials said.

As military jets periodically screamed over Cairo, even performing a formation salute with coloured smoke trails, many Egyptians took pains to stress that the toppling of their elected president, announced by a general, was not a "coup".

An Egyptian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention. The court denied the humiliating tests even took place, despite a ruling by another court and admissions by generals quoted by a leading rights group.