• Egypt envisions ‘strengthening’ of U.S. relationship under Trump

    Egypt envisions ‘strengthening’ of U.S. relationship under Trump

    Dec 06, 2016 12:35 AM EST

    ... turning the page on this U.S.-Egypt relationship, which has had its ups and downs over the last few years? SAMEH SHOUKRY, Foreign Minister, Egypt: We're certainly looking forward for consolidating and strengthening the U.S.-Egyptian relationship. It is always our objective to have close ties with ...

  • Column: Nobel prize-winner Ahmed Zewail’s struggle to bring Egypt out of the 'dark ages'

    Column: Nobel prize-winner Ahmed Zewail’s struggle to bring Egypt out of the 'dark ages'

    Aug 03, 2016 08:37 PM EST

    ... Nobel Prize for chemistry for using lasers to measure chemical reactions over infinitesimal time scales -- inventing so-called “femtochemistry” -- he became not only the first Egyptian but the first Arab to ever win a Nobel Prize in the sciences. But I first met Zewail in another context -- the Egyptian revolution ...

  • Egyptian dissenters forcibly disappeared and tortured, Amnesty says

    Egyptian dissenters forcibly disappeared and tortured, Amnesty says

    Jul 13, 2016 09:57 PM EST

    ... The Egyptian government denies allegations of human rights violations and has specifically accused Amnesty International of propagating rumors. In March, Maj. Gen. Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt’s interior minister, said in a statement that there is no enforced disappearance in Egypt. Amnesty International links the rise in disappearances to Ghaffar ...

  • Investigators can't download EgyptAir recorders, says U.S. official

    Investigators can't download EgyptAir recorders, says U.S. official

    Jun 23, 2016 06:34 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been unsuccessful, according to a U.S. official. The recorders are being flown to the offices of the French aviation accident investigation bureau near Paris ...

  • Egypt finalizes death ruling for Al Jazeera journalists tried in abstentia

    Egypt finalizes death ruling for Al Jazeera journalists tried in abstentia

    Jun 18, 2016 06:32 PM EST

    ... and became the presidential incumbent in 2014. El-Sissi has since cracked down on opponents of his regime, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which was once Egypt’s most-organized political group and of which Morsi is a member. Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been cool since Morsi, who was ...

  • Egypt says it has found the wreckage from missing EgyptAir plane

    Egypt says it has found the wreckage from missing EgyptAir plane

    Jun 15, 2016 10:30 PM EST

    A search vessel has spotted "several main locations of the wreckage" from an EgyptAir airplane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month, Egyptian investigators announced Wednesday. An Egyptian committee said in a statement today that the vessel has provided the first images of the wreckage, the Associated Press reported ...

  • Egypt sends submarine to search for clues about EgyptAir crash that killed 66

    Egypt sends submarine to search for clues about EgyptAir crash that killed 66

    May 21, 2016 06:20 PM EST

    In his first public address since an EgyptAir flight mysteriously plummeted into the Mediterranean and killed 66 on Thursday, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Sunday he has sent a submarine to continue a search for clues. Scant evidence has made it hard to know what caused flight ...

  • Families weep as debris from EgyptAir disaster found in the Mediterranean Sea

    Families weep as debris from EgyptAir disaster found in the Mediterranean Sea

    May 20, 2016 11:40 PM EST

    ... God bless all who died on the plane. JOHN YANG: Their hopes dashed by the discovery of wreckage from the Airbus A-320 announced on Egyptian state television. WOMAN (through interpreter): We have just received an official report from the Egyptian army. Military airplanes have been able to locate wreckage ...

  • Solving the mystery of vanished EgyptAir Flight 804

    Solving the mystery of vanished EgyptAir Flight 804

    May 19, 2016 11:30 PM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: We return to EgyptAir Flight 804 and what could have happened to it. Deborah Hersman served as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 2009 to 2014 and is now president of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit organization devoted to reducing preventable deaths and injuries ...

  • EgyptAir plane carrying 66 crashes; terrorism possible, officials say

    EgyptAir plane carrying 66 crashes; terrorism possible, officials say

    May 19, 2016 11:15 AM EST

    An EgyptAir airplane flying from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers aboard crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning. Egyptian officials said they can't rule out terrorism at this point. The Egyptian army said Friday it had found wreckage from the aircraft and some of the passengers' belongings ...