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JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has stepped up security measures ahead of the third anniversary of former President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster, arresting 17 Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers on charges of illegal possession of firearms.

The Times of Israel reports: Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Islamic State-affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram came under fire this week for a simple mistake it posted on Twitter.

JAFFA, Israel – A Christian leader in Egypt has accused the government led by Abdel Fattah al Sissi of hiding the real number of Christians in the country out of fear that the community will demand some of the senior posts in government.

In an analysis of Monday’s meeting between Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Vatican expert John L. Allen said that there is no Christian leader in the world today with a more credible claim to the title of a “friend of Islam.”

CAIRO (AP) — Smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear, the French air accident investigation agency said on Saturday.

Breitbart News national security editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Fox Business Thursday to discuss the disappearance of EgyptAir flight 804.

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will meet with the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar, the most prestigious institution in Sunni Islam, in an unprecedented encounter next Monday.

Rescue teams have recovered the first two corpses thought to be from the crash of Egyptair flight MS804, which went down during the night.

TEL AVIV – In the last twenty-four hours, the missing the EgyptAir Airbus A320 that disappeared from radar after leaving Greek airspace had made stops in the hotspots of Tunisia and Eritrea.

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo went down into the Mediterranean Sea during the night in a mysterious crash that the Egyptian Prime Minister says may have been due to a terrorist attack.

The Jerusalem Post reports: In a sign of improving relations with Egypt, Israel is set to return to Cairo stolen antiquities estimated to be almost 3,000 years old.

According to various reports late Wednesday night, EgyptAir Flight 804 plane disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea heading inbound to Cairo, Egypt. The plane, an Airbus A320, departed from Paris, France’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and was carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members,

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) are planning to travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in an attempt to resurrect the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

JAFFA, Israel – Egypt’s state prosecutor has announced that a Cairo man faces criminal charges for marrying the mother of his fiancée.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he threatened to send Israeli commandos into Cairo in 2011 to rescue a number of Israeli security staff besieged by demonstrators who had stormed the mission.

Gunmen shot dead eight plainclothed Egyptian policemen in the Helwan district south of Cairo, the interior ministry said Sunday.

In the very heart of Christianity, Muslim students in Rome can now enroll through the local “Dar al Salam” mosque in Egypt’s Al-Azhar University to train to become imams.

Jerusalem did not receive written assurances from Saudi Arabia regarding Israel’s right of free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba and the Strait of Tiran in the wake of a Saudi-Egyptian deal to swap ownership of two islands, a senior Israeli official indicated Monday.

JAFFA, Israel – Christian Egyptians have castigated the Coptic Pope Tawadros for removing Christian-themed ornaments before meeting with Saudi King Salman, who is on a landmark visit to Cairo.

JAFFA, Israel – An Egyptian man has reportedly  been indicted for killing his wife after finding the phone number of another man in her pocket.  The man allegedly phoned police and reported that his wife fell from their sixth-floor balcony

The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of its journalists.

On Monday, Egypt marked the fifth anniversary of the January 25, 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which saw the overthrow of long-time autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.

A bomb attack in Giza, on a road leading to the pyramids, killed at least six people on Thursday – including three Egyptian police officers – and wounded 13 others. Two of the wounded are reportedly in critical condition. The Egyptian Interior Ministry blamed the attack on Muslim Brotherhood militants.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has claimed responsibility for a bombing attack that resulted in the deaths of nine people, which occurred in Egypt’s capital city of Cairo.

Masked militants fired at a group of dozens of Israeli tourists at the Barceló Three Pyramids hotel next to Cairo on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries.

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian judge postponed the trial of 739 people accused of murder because the courtroom cage was too small, the Independent reported.  Judge Hassan Farid said he received instructions from the Cairo security directorate telling him to

Cairo (AFP) – Assailants attacked a Cairo nightclub Friday with petrol bombs, killing at least 16 people in the ensuing blaze, following an apparent dispute with the staff, the interior ministry said.

An anonymous hacking group attacked the website of the Egyptian presidency and took it offline for a short time on Thursday, according to a report at Al-Arabiya News.

A bus full of Hamas operatives traveling through the Sinai Peninsula was stopped abruptly on Thursday, and initial reports stated that four members of Hamas—a Palestinian rival terrorist organization headquartered in Gaza—had been abducted by terrorists loyal to the Islamic State.

Egypt’s President Abel Fattah al-Sisi has announced he will make his third visit to Russia on August 25, when he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “boost strategic relations” and “enhance cooperation with Russia in various fields, particularly economically.”

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has claimed it orchestrated a car bomb attack in Cairo early on Thursday that injured at least 29 people, CNN reports.

Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb early on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai

In direct contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood regime that ruled Egypt just a couple of years ago, the new government in Cairo under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has built a cordial relationship with the Jewish people and has remained an honest broker in negotiating mutually beneficial agreements with the State of Israel.

The Egyptian branch of ISIS has kidnapped a 30-year-old Croatian named Tomislav Salopek, who was in Egypt on business as an employee of French geology firm CGG, and is threatening to murder him within 48 hours if the Egyptian government does not release Muslim women from its jails. It is not clear exactly which Muslim women the terrorist group wants freed, as there is no shortage of them in Egyptian prisons, following the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Cairo (AFP) – At least 21 people celebrating an engagement were killed on the Nile north of Cairo late Wednesday when a cargo ship hit their chartered boat, medical and security sources said.