Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, sons of former president Hosni Mubarak, were released after having already served the maximum pre-trial detention period of 18 months. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak were released from prison on Monday, one day after the fourth anniversary of the January 2011 uprising, which toppled their father after over 30 years in power, a security source told state ...

President expresses support for Jordan after IS releases video purportedly showing Jordanian pilot’s burned alive. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday strongly condemned the killing of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State, calling the militant group “a savage cowardly organisation that violates all heavenly doctrines,” state news agency MENA reported. El-Sisi confirmed Egypt’s support to Jordan at this ...

The Court of Cassation, the final court in Egypt’s legal system, has confirmed the death sentence passed on a man convicted of throwing youths from a rooftop in violence that followed the 2013 ouster of Mohamed MorsiAn Egyptian court upheld Thursday a death sentence passed on a supporter of former president Mohamed Morsi accused of throwing teenage boys from a ...

The Egyptian government said Monday that it had bombed Islamist targets throughout Libya to retaliate for the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians whose murders on a beach apparently near Tripoli were recorded and posted Sunday on the Internet. The beheading of the Egyptian Christians and the swift Egyptian retaliation further tangled Libya’s already byzantine power struggle, where two governments rule, ...

Egypt carried out airstrikes against ISIS targets in neighboring Libya Monday and began a push for international military intervention in the chaotic North African state after extremists beheaded a group of Egyptian Christians. The airstrikes bring Egypt overtly into Libya’s turmoil, showing Cairo’s alarm over the growing stronghold of radicals on its western border as it also fights a militant ...

Around 250 Egyptians arrived in Cairo early Monday after being airlifted from the Algerian-Libyan border for the first time since Egyptians have been returning to their homeland, Major General Tarek Fathy, deputy head of the Cairo International Airport, told Ahram Online. The foreign ministry said last week that the total number of Egyptians who have managed to flee the deteriorating ...

Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, has announced that it will be restarting flights to Shiraz in Iran. The route to the capital of Fars Province will become the airline’s 40th destination, the airline said, adding that the city will be served with three weekly flights, starting from December 15. Relations between Bahrain and Iran have been strained by ...

A prominent Bahraini human rights activist has been released on bail after being jailed last month for criticising state institutions. Speaking to Al Jazeera after his release on Sunday, Nabeel Rajab, the founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, noted that his latest arrest came just months after he was released from prison on previous charges. “This is part of ...

First parliamentary polls since electoral constituencies are massively re-drawn Bahrainis overseas on Tuesday cast ballots to elect lawmakers in the fourth quadrennial elections in Bahrain’s modern history. Bahrainis currently in Japan, either as residents or as visitors, were the first among the 1,667 men and women who last week registered as voters, to cast their ballots and elect their representatives ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked allies of Bahrain to urge Manama to drop charges against human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who is to be tried for a tweet that “insulted state institutions.” Rajab was arrested for posting the tweet in October 2014 and has since been released on bail. His upcoming trial could lead to his facing up to ...