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The government of Egypt indicated that it was caught off-guard by the U.S. decision to delay $195 million in military aid and completely cut $95.7 million in additional assistance, saying it was only given “a few hours” before the Trump administration made the move public, contradicting claims by the State Department.

The Israeli Embassy in Cairo is expected to resume routine activities in the near future, after six years of operating only partially, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.

Two passenger trains collided on Friday just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, according to authorities, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade.

CAIRO — Egyptian police have killed three top Islamist militants in two separate operations, including two caught trying to move to a new hideout on Cairo’s outskirts, the government said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – It’s not enough for Muslims to declare that groups like the Islamic State do not represent Islam; it is time for the Arab world to take concrete steps towards fighting terror, the parliamentary affairs editor for a Jordanian daily said.

Masked gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of the Egyptian capital on Friday, killing at least 26 people, including children, and wounding 25, officials said.

In his sternest address to date on the issue of violence perpetrated in the name of God, Pope Francis condemned all attempts to justify violence that “masquerades” as holiness.

In a new video-message, Pope Francis greets the people of Egypt prior to his upcoming Cairo visit, saying that he intends the visit to be “a witness of my affection, comfort and encouragement for all the Christians of the Middle East.”

On Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the Islamist Palm Sunday terror attacks on two Coptic churches that killed at least 37 people and injured nearly 60 others, Vatican Radio reported.

Bombs tore through two Egyptian churches in different cities as worshippers were marking Palm Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding around 100 in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group.

Contents: Cairo, Egypt, becomes the world’s fastest growing city; Shortage of contraceptives and culture of large families spur Egypt’s population growth

TEL AVIV – Ahead of the Arab League Summit later this month, foreign ministers of member states gathered in Cairo on Sunday and Monday to discuss how to prevent President Donald Trump from going through with his promise to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

In a strange juxtaposition of news stories, hundreds of Egyptian Copts have fled the Sinai Peninsula after a series of recent Islamist attacks, just as the highest Sunni imam in Cairo is asserting Islam’s openness to a religiously pluralistic state.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict should be preserved, at a press conference in Cairo on Wednesday.

The Israeli ambassador to Egypt and his team were quietly returned to Israel several weeks ago due to security concerns, the Shin Bet security agency said Tuesday.

Friendly phone calls, an invite to the White House, a focus on Islamic militancy and what Donald Trump called “chemistry” have set the tone for a new era of warmer U.S.-Egyptian ties that could herald more military and political support for Cairo.

Hamas has released 13 Islamic State loyalists from detention after they were arrested three months ago as part of the movement’s attempts to sidle up to the Egyptian authorities by cracking down on radical Islamists in the Strip, a top jihadi operative told Breitbart Jerusalem.

It is Christmas Eve for Egypt’s Copts but Marie Labib is not in a festive mood, with dark thoughts haunting her weeks after a church bombing killed 28 members of her community.

Terrorists have developed a fondness for attacking nightclubs, and it’s no surprise. They are perfect venues for mass murder, with tightly-packed crowds of people, and limited routes of escape for the victims.

Contents: Egypt’s Christians demand revenge after Sunday’s church bombing; Italy’s bank crisis seems likely to cost thousands of people their savings

The suicide bomber who struck a Coptic church in Cairo on Sunday, killing 24 Christians, has been identified by the Egyptian government as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa.

An Egyptian man has been arrested on charges of killing his 10-year-old daughter because she left the house without his permission.

A bombing on a main Cairo road leading to the Giza pyramids killed six police and wounded another three on Friday, the deadliest attack on security forces in the capital in more than six months.

Egyptian police arrested prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman on Wednesday, her foundation and a security source said, weeks after she was banned from travel and had her assets frozen.

An Islamic Jihad delegation that recently returned from Cairo conveyed to Hamas on behalf of the Egyptian government that Cairo is ready to “reboot” its relationship with Gaza’s Islamist government, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

A top Egyptian cleric has called on his followers not to rejoice at the widespread forest fires that have plagued Israel for the past week.

Egyptian officials say some 200 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been detained in connection with calls by the Islamist group for street protests against price rises.

Hamas has stepped up measures against Islamic State loyalists in the Gaza Strip, an official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.

In Cairo, capital of the most populous Arab country, the US election is met with self-absorbed indifference or loathing for one, and sometimes both, candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

An Egyptian judge who tried former president Mohamed Mursi in 2015 survived an assassination attempt on Friday when a parked car exploded as his vehicle drove by, the interior ministry said.

A year after jihadists bombed a Russian plane carrying holidaymakers in Egypt, tourism shows little sign of recovery in the Arab country grappling with an economic crisis.

Egypt’s interior minister warned in comments published Monday that the country faced “unprecedented challenges” that required a “decisive” response by security forces, accusing the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of scheming to incite chaos.

Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi’s regime has been bracing for unrest following the self-immolation of a taxi driver on Saturday in protest of the soaring cost of living. Witnesses said that Ashraf Mohammed Shaheen, 30, set himself on fire in

The Egyptians are looking to replace Cairo as their capital city, and they’re considering a $20 billion offer from China to build it.

An Iraqi man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, to which he later admitted, after she refused to cook for him.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s newly appointed ambassador to Egypt, David Govrin, presented his credentials to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, to the sounds of the Egyptian military band playing Israel’s national anthem.