Egyptian port authorities seized a North Korean ship stuffed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) that was part of an illegal weapons smuggling scheme in August 2016, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The incident is the apparent root of tensions between Egypt and the US, allies who have been at odds in recent months for ambiguous reasons. The North Korean ship, Jie Shun, was travelling through... 

Gunmen opened fire on two buses and a truck carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, Egypt on Friday, killing at least 28, including children. Some 24 people were also injured in the attack. The group of between eight and 10 gunmen, reportedly dressed in military uniforms according to eyewitnesses, approached the convoy in three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks before opening fire, according to local media... 

Egypt’s president called for a three-month state of emergency Sunday after at least 44 people were killed and more than 100 more were injured in two Palm Sunday suicide attacks at Coptic Christian churches, each carried out by the ISIS terror group. Sunday’s first blast happened at St. George Church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 27 people were killed and 78 others wounded,... 

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi declared three days of national mourning and promised justice following a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian cathedral that left 24 people dead. Mourners packed the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius church in the eastern Cairo suburb of Nasr City for the funeral of 24 people killed when a suicide bomber attacked the chapel at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Cairo’s... 

A Sydney imam was attacked and beaten with a shoe while live on air on an Egyptian talk show after saying women do not have to wear the burka. Mostafa Rashid was discussing whether Muslim women should wear headscarves when Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh took off his shoe and beat him round the head with it. Keep in mind Egypt is considered to be one of those “moderate” Muslim countries.... 

Members of the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations blasted Hillary Clinton just a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with both Clinton and Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. They also had high praise for Trump—and while not an official endorsement, it is a positive outcome for Trump’s first and only meeting with Muslim world leaders thus far. Egyptian officials... 

Human remains retrieved from the Mediterranean Sea and examined by a team of experts point to an explosion taking place on board the aircraft, Egyptian forensic sources told media. An official who has personally examined the remains at a Cairo morgue told AP on condition of anonymity that the forensics team has to deal with very small body parts. “There isn’t even a whole body part, like an... 

The sound of an explosion can be heard on the black box recorder of the downed Russian jet, according to reports in the French media. The sound of an explosion could be heard on the flight data recorders, French TV station France 2 reported. An investigator with access to the devices ruled out the possibility it was the result of an engine failure, saying the noise was not consistent. It came after... 

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that a raid to remove from Yemen the two captured Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “assets” who are believed to have masterminded the downing of Flight 9268 over Egypt last Saturday, utilizing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, was “highly successful”, and once the Aerospace Forces “protected/guided” aircraft returned to Federation... 

Aviation experts now believe the Russia Airbus that crashed over the weekend was taken down by a bomb or a “force acting outwards from within.” The Director General of the Royal United Services Institute, Michael Clarke, said it was more likely the aircraft was taken down by a bomb than mechanical failure, according to the BBC. “Early reports said that the aircraft split into two and that suggests... 

The Russian embassy in Egypt said all passengers and crew members on board the Russian airliner which crashed Saturday in Sinai were dead. Egyptian military and security officials said none of the passengers and crew of the Russian Airbus A321 which crashed earlier on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula were alive. This information was confirmed by the Russian embassy in Egypt. “Unfortunately, all... 

A man is seen commuting across the flooded streets of Alexandria on October 25, 2015. Hani al-Messirial-Messiri, the governor of Alexandria, has resigned after floods killed at least 7 people in the Egyptian northern city. State television revealed Sunday that Prime Minister Sherif Ismail accepted the resignation of the governor of Alexandria. Hours before his resignation, Messiri called the situation... 

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on Saturday at the Italian consulate in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in which at least one person was killed. “Through God’s blessing, Islamic State soldiers were able to detonate a parked car bomb carrying 450 kg of explosive material on the headquarters of the Italian consulate in central Cairo,” Islamic State said... 

The leader of France’s right-wing National Front party said her recent visit to Egypt did not soften her views towards Arab and Muslim immigration to France. Marine Le Pen was in Cairo to meet with the nation’s religious and political leaders. The National Front leader arrived in Egypt last week for a meeting with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar (Sunni Islam’s highest authority), the... 

First democratically-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar and escaping from prison during the country’s revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The sentence was issued on Saturday in the capital of Cairo...