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Egypt: IS Claims Killing of Eight Police Personnel

The Islamic State terror group Sunday claimed responsibility for the death of eight Egyptian policemen killed in the Hewlan district, South of Cairo. IS’s local franchise circulated a message in Arabic calling the attack a retaliation for “the pure women imprisoned” by Egyptian authorities and saying that it was part of its Abi Ali Al-Anbari […]

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Egypt: State-Owned Paper Lashes out at Interior Ministry, Calls for Minister’s Dismissal

Egypt’s main state-owned newspaper Tuesday lambasted the interior ministry in an “unprecedented editorial” following the arrest of two journalists and police raid on the Press Syndicate headquarters on Sunday. Al-Ahram, one of government vibrant supporters, took millions of Egyptians by surprise as it chided state security apparatus over brutality committed on journalists over the past […]

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Egypt: Journalists Protest against Arrest of Colleagues, File Complaint against Interior Minister

Hundreds of journalists Thursday marched through Cairo, from the Press Syndicate headquarters in central Cairo towards the attorney general’s office where they filed a complaint against the interior minister for the arrest of their colleagues during the Monday protest and against police brutality. The marchers holding up pens and cameras chanted slogans against security forces […]

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Egypt: Prosecutor Barakat killed, Sisi calls for tighter security

Egypt’s top prosecutor Hisham Barakat has succumbed to his injuries at the Al-Nozha hospital in Heliopolis after his convoy was targeted in a roadside car bomb attack claimed by the Giza Popular Resistance on its Facebook page. Shortly after the attack, President Sisi met with Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar. He called for tighter security measures and stressed […]

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Egypt : Military brass changed to revolutionize strategy

A major shuffle of the top brass of the Egyptian military was announced on Sunday and it coincided with the killing of at least 12 people, of which six were soldiers, in northern Sinai. The change in the military ranks came after a similar action concerning 22 top officials, including the head of the National […]