Israeli forces carried out strikes in the Egyptian-ruled Sinai Peninsula recently, targeting militants positions in northern Sinai, witnesses claimed. According to a report by the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed media outlet, Israeli aircraft hit militants targets inside [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi defends the gas deal with Israel saying that to import gas from Israel will help make Egypt a regional hub for natural gas, defending a deal that has sparked controversy at home. “We [ More … ]
A new report highlighted the unprecedented alliance,between Egypt and Israel, to combat terrorism in Sinai. In an a report titled:”Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K”, New York Times wrote that for [ More … ]
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was optimistic about improving military ties with Egypt after talks with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, following a period of tension under the Obama administration. The Pentagon stated [ More … ]
The Egyptian navy received on Wednesday the second Type-209/1400 submarine, according to local media reports. The ship is supplied by German shipbuilding company Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft to Egypt. The German submarine arrived at Ras El-Tin in [ More … ]
Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African Union and Arab League Abdelkader Messahel said Saturday that Algeria and Tunisia will ink next week an agreement on security cooperation. The agreement will be signed as part of the [ More … ]
For the second time in a month, two rockets were fired in Egypt’s northern Sinai and have landed in southern Israel. No group claim their responsibility for the rocket attack, but the attack came a day [ More … ]
Several rockets were fired at Israel’s port town of Eilat from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday night, with the Iron Dome interception system shooting down three while a fourth landed in an open area, according [ More … ]
Israel has announced that it has finished raising the height of an electronic fence along part of its border with Egypt to shut down irregular migration routes. The 242-kilometer (250 mile) barrier, stretching from the Gaza Strip [ More … ]
Al-Sisi has met with the Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger in Cairo in the presence of the Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service Khaled Fawzy and discussed cooperation in counter-terrorism. [ More … ]
Since the military coup in 2013 that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi and replaced him with erstwhile General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,” the dynamic – at least at the official level – has [ More … ]
Last Sunday, Egypt’s military leader arrived in New York to participate in the week-long annual debate, alongside country leaders and member state representatives from over 190 countries in an attempt to legalize his shaken reign. [ More … ]
The Egyptian foreign minister’s latest visit to Israel was portrayed by the media as a Sadat-like foreign policy agenda – shunting the Palestinian issue down the priority list, writes Mohamed ElMeshad as reported by Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed. It [ More … ]
Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi has sent a delegation led by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Israel to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push the negotiation process with the Palestinians. Netanyahu told his ministers [ More … ]
Brett Mc Gurk, the U.S.Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, visited Cairo for holding meetings with senior Egyptian officials to discuss cooperation in the fight against ISIS. The Special Envoy met Egypt’s [ More … ]
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