Egypt’s President-elect Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Egypt’s election commission has officially announced former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the winner of the country’s presidential election. The election commission said on Tuesday evening that Sisi won the polls by 96.1 percent of the votes. It put the turnout at 47.5 percent of the country’s 53 million eligible voters during the three-day... 

At least 15 people have been killed and many others injured during rival rallies held in several Egyptian cities to mark the anniversary of the revolution that overthrew former dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Violence erupted in several Egyptian cities including the capital, Cairo, Giza, Minya and Alexandria on Saturday after supporters and opponents of former president, Mohamed Morsi, staged rival rallies... 

A newly released document obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request confirms that the State Department ordered the Department of Homeland Security to spare members of the Muslim Brotherhood traveling to the US in 2012 a TSA pat down or any kind of secondary screening. The one page document (PDF), obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, shows that members of a Muslim Brotherhood... 

Egypt military-installed government declares the Muslim Brotherhood movement a “terrorist” group banning all its activities amid raging tensions in the North African country. Egypt interim government officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Wednesday, saying that its findings show the movement launched a bomb attack, killing 16 people and leaving some 140 wounded,... 

An Egyptian committee tasked with drafting a new constitution has approved an article that forbids the formation of religious parties. Forty-eight members of the 50-member panel present on Saturday voted on the 247 articles of the new charter and approved more than half of the articles, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported. Voting on the remaining articles will resume on Sunday afternoon.... 

Dozens of people have been injured as thousands of supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, hold anti-military demonstrations across Egypt, security sources say. The violence in the city of Dakahlia erupted after Morsi’s opponents attacked the Muslim Brotherhood supporters rallying against his trial that will be held on Monday. In another protest in Egypt’s second largest city of... 

A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, which has been protesting against the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi since July. The judges made the recommendation on Monday, saying the party represents an outlawed group, The Associated Press reported. The recommendation is to be delivered to a Cairo court which is reviewing a case demanding... 

The death toll from clashes between supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi and police forces has risen to 51 as violence rages on in the North African country. Supporters of Morsi, who was overthrown in a July military coup, tried to gather in iconic Liberation Square in the capital Cairo when police confronted them. According to Ahmed al-Ansari, a top official of Egypt’s Health... 

Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood rally in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque on July 7, 2013 An Egyptian court has banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country. Its assets will also be confiscated according to the court ruling. “The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental... 

Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi is to be tried for what has been called ‘incitement to murder,’ by Egyptian state media. According to a report by the state TV on Sunday, Morsi will stand trial in a criminal court along with 14 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of “incitement to murder and violence” in December 2012 when fatal clashes erupted between supporters... 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military “coup” that toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Turkish media report. Erdogan said the West was beginning to redefine democracy as a process that is not solely determined at the ballot box, although the poll represents “the people’s will.” “This is what has been implemented... 

The new Egyptian constitution may seek to ban all religious parties from the political arena, sources told Ahram Online. The interim government may declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization amid clashes which have left over 800 dead. The new draft constitution is expected to be announced on Wednesday, Ali Awad, head of the ten-member technical committee and legal aid to the interim president,... 

The Egyptian military’s crackdown on supporters of ex-President Mohamed Morsi has plunged the world’s most populous Arab nation into its worst violence for decades. The country is teetering between a return to Mubarak-era autocracy and civil war. Egyptian security forces interrupted a six-week-long stand-off with Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, launching a crackdown on two sit-in camps... 

Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events in Egypt on Aug. 15 in Chilmark Mass. President Barack Obama has announced the cancellation of US-Egypt military exercises following the latest killings in the country, without talking about suspending Washington’s annual military aid to Cairo. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue... 

Supporters of Egypt’s deposed President Mohamed Morsi walk past his portrait during a protest outside a mosque in Cairo on July 23, 2013. Saudi Arabia has transferred USD 2 billion to the Egyptian Central Bank as part of an aid package Riyadh has pledged to Cairo following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. The USD 2 billion of Saudi funds arrived in the form of a five-year interest-free...