Egypt

An Egyptian rights watchdog has reported a "dramatic" increase in building new prisons in recent years, with 19 new facilities…

Masked gunmen shot dead a low-ranking police officer as he was leaving his house in the Al-Bashayer area of 6th…

Egypt has recovered a Pharaonic funerary figurine that was discovered in Mexico by a local resident, according to a statement…

Just 80 km from the city of Minya lies the village of Reedy, where 4,000 people live just above the…

Egypt is in advanced talks with Saudi Arabia to secure a new deposit worth $2-3 billion as part of about…

Egyptian police thwarted an illegal migration attempt on Wednesday by 152 African nationals seeking to reach Italy across the Mediterranean…

Egypt's president named six new provincial governors on Wednesday, in a series of appointments that extended the influence of the…

Meteorologists are predicting hot and humid weather on Thursday in Lower Egypt and Cairo, where highs of 34 degrees centigrade…

Egyptian feminist Janet Abdel Aleem has ridiculed statements by a male member of parliament who suggested that female genital mutilation…

About 14.5 million people in Egypt were illiterate in 2015, of which 9.3 million were females, the Central Agency for…