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The head of the Christian community in Egypt’s Alminia County, where Christian residents were attacked by a Muslim mob, has called on the authorities to bring all the culprits to justice. Father Makarios told the Egyptian press that the violent

JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has been in turmoil following clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Nile Delta area, during which an elderly Christian woman was evicted from her home, stripped naked and parading through the streets.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s Egyptian government has gotten a cold shoulder from the Obama administration until now, but security fears may be thawing out that relationship.

Egyptian officials have contradicted reports from Greece that EgyptAir Flight 804 made a set of dramatic maneuvers before apparently exploding in midair.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s public prosecutor formally requested data on the crashed EgyptAir plane from France and Greece on Monday, as the victims’ remains began arriving at a Cairo morgue ready for DNA testing. EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to

AP — Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of Coptic Christian mourners filled a church in

Contents: Downed EgyptAir flight an economic disaster for Egypt; A dark shadow looms over EU-Turkey refugee deal, as Turkey passes harsh anti-Kurdish law

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.

Authorities are suspecting terrorism as the cause of the Egyptian jet crash over the Mediterranean Sea early this morning, but the White House doesn’t want to jump to conclusions.

Egypt’s chief prosecutor has ordered an “urgent investigation” into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, which went down in the Mediterranean on Thursday with 66 people on board en route from Paris to Cairo. The Paris prosecutor’s office has also opened an investigation.

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.

(Reuters) – An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt’s national airline said. Officials with the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation department told Reuters

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.

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 51 people to two years in prison for taking part in protests last month, officials said.

Nearly a thousand migrants rescued in the perilous Strait of Sicily have arrived into southern Italy Friday, among whom are hundreds of Syrians, Iraqis and Egyptians, which signals the adoption of a new migratory route from the Middle East into Europe.

An Egyptian actor and comedian has reportedly accused victims in Syria’s city of Aleppo of using makeup to “fake” the slaughter wrought by Bashar al-Assad regime airstrikes.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The militant Hamas group says Egypt has temporarily reopened its border with the Gaza Strip, the first time the border was opened in three months.

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.

Contents: Arab countries seek to overturn the century old Sykes-Picot agreement; Syria: A victim of colonial politics; Palestine: Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration left a ‘savage legacy’; Lebanon: Survived Sykes-Picot largely intact

TEL AVIV – Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad claimed that the Prophet Muhammad’s view of Jews as “subhuman” and the subsequent treatment of Jews after his death was akin to that of the Nazis, adding that such hatred is ongoing and has “prevented us from dealing with our problems in a serious way.”

The Egyptian Ministry of Education has announced the introduction of jail terms for cheaters ahead of the forthcoming high school final exams, as well a more strenuous vetting process for invigilators.

TEL AVIV – Zionist capitalism controls world media and Zionist agents are hiding all over the world in a plot for global domination, an award-winning Egyptian author has claimed.

TEL AVIV – On Saturday, Israeli jets struck Hamas targets after rockets were fired last night and early this morning from the Gaza Strip aimed at Israeli civilian population zones. “Earlier today… a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip

TEL AVIV – Four tons of ammonium chloride used in long range rockets was discovered by Israeli authorities in bags of salt headed for Gaza, Ynet news reported.

Contents: Israel to open another truck crossing to the Gaza Strip; Report: Hamas, Israel and Egypt in alliance fighting ISIS; Laos sides with China in South China Sea dispute

Ynetnews reports: A delegation of Jews met with Salafi leader Dr. Jiah a-Shimi in the Egyptian town of Fayoum last month in a meeting which caused uproar amongst the Egyptian Salafi movement. Dr. Omar Salem, an Egyptian-American religious scholar invited

TEL AVIV – The claim that the Pharaoh mentioned during the Passover holiday’s retelling of the Exodus story is Egyptian is a lie made up by Jews, a senior Egyptian archaeologist declared.

Cairo (AFP) – An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 men accused of homosexuality to jail terms of between three and 12 years, legal sources said. The defendants were arrested in a flat in the leafy Cairo suburb of Agouza in

JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian opposition held a day of protest on Monday in the wake of Cairo’s decision to hand over two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, while the country marks 34 years since the “liberation” of Sinai from Israeli occupation.

TEL AVIV – With Passover in full gear, the IDF have just finished a four-week-long amnesty program in which former soldiers were urged to return IDF property they held onto – with no questions asked.

The Guardian reports: Security forces in Egypt have used teargas to disperse small protests against the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, witnesses have said, deterring what opposition groups had expected to be a day of large demonstrations against his rule. This

Contents: Egypt arrests journalists in cafes and homes ahead of Monday protests; Egypt’s al-Sisi warns of ‘chaos’ in Monday’s Sinai Liberation Day protests; Sudan and Tunisia prepare for simultaneous protests in solidarity

Islamic fundamentalist organization Hamas has been building up its security apparatus near the Egyptian and Israeli border in an attempt improve ties with Cairo, AFP reported Saturday.

TEL AVIV — The Saudi government has contracted the communications and strategy firm of Tony Podesta, the brother of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, paying the group $140,000 per month to work for Saudi interests in the U.S.

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.