• Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Egypt that killed 224

    Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Egypt that killed 224

    Nov 01, 2015 08:33 PM EST

    ... Such reports cannot be considered true," he told the Interfax news agency, according to the BBC. "We are in close touch with our colleagues from Egypt and their air traffic authorities, and they have nothing at the moment which could confirm such fabrications," Sokolov said. Egyptian army spokesman Mohamed Samir ...

  • More than 200 dead after Russian airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai

    More than 200 dead after Russian airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai

    Oct 31, 2015 06:48 PM EST

    ... mountainous central area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. No one on board survived, officials say. Except for three Ukrainian passengers, everyone on board was Russian, Egyptian government officials said. Egyptian search and rescue teams found the plane's wreckage  -- including both of the so-called black boxes, the flight data ...

  • Journalist Mohamed Fahmy on ‘brutal’ experience in Egyptian supermax prison

    Journalist Mohamed Fahmy on ‘brutal’ experience in Egyptian supermax prison

    Oct 17, 2015 12:23 AM EST

    Before his release in September, Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy spent more than 400 days locked up in the terrorism wing of “Scorpion” prison in Egypt. He had no way to tell time, and was sleeping on the floor of a freezing cell. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner traveled to Toronto to speak with Fahmy...

  • Egypt’s president on fighting Islamic State, U.S. relations

    Egypt’s president on fighting Islamic State, U.S. relations

    Sep 29, 2015 12:24 AM EST

    ... just want to say to you, though, that the last two years presented a real test of the endurance and strength of the U.S.-Egyptian strategic relationship. MARGARET WARNER: Let me go back, finally, to the state internally in Egypt. Can you explain to the American people why so ...

  • Accidental killing of tourists highlights Egypt-U.S. tension over military aid

    Accidental killing of tourists highlights Egypt-U.S. tension over military aid

    Sep 16, 2015 01:02 AM EST

    ... of military aid from the U.S. to Egypt, right? This aid had been put on hold for a while during all the turmoil in Egypt. Is it back up to where it was? MICHELE DUNNE: Yes. The United States resumed all military aid to Egypt earlier this year, after ...

  • Buried underwater, Ancient Egyptian artifacts rise to the surface in Paris

    Buried underwater, Ancient Egyptian artifacts rise to the surface in Paris

    Sep 12, 2015 09:08 PM EST

    ... cities were called Thonis, Heracleion and Canopus. Many of the artifacts are thought to be in tribute to the ancient Egyptian God: Osiris. MOHAMMED ABDELMAGUID, EGYPTIAN DEPT. FOR UNDERWATER ANTIQUITIES: The artifacts have aesthetic value, but at the same time, this shows us there is a continuity in Egyptian beliefs ...

  • Egyptian billionaire wants to buy island for refugees

    Egyptian billionaire wants to buy island for refugees

    Sep 04, 2015 08:29 PM EST

    ... debate on how European countries should act. This isn’t the billionaire’s first time entering a larger political debate. In the wake of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, he was one of the founding members of the Free Egyptians’ Party, according to International Business Times. https://www.youtube.com ...

  • Islamic State militants launch coordinated assault on Egyptian forces

    Islamic State militants launch coordinated assault on Egyptian forces

    Jul 01, 2015 10:25 PM EST

    ... seeking to topple the Cairo government. JUDY WOODRUFF: I read that this went on for hours and hours. How well-equipped, how prepared was the Egyptian military? YARA BAYOUMY: Well, the Egyptian military has been fighting this insurgency for over -- or about two years now. And it has actually intensified ...

  • Egyptian court overturns designation of Hamas as a terrorist group

    Egyptian court overturns designation of Hamas as a terrorist group

    Jun 06, 2015 07:05 PM EST

    An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday overturned a lower court ruling that designated the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organization, court officials said. Hamas officials welcomed the move, which may herald improved relations between Egypt's government and Hamas, the Gaza Strip's governing faction. Hamas is an ...

  • Egyptian court sentences ex-president Morsi to death

    Egyptian court sentences ex-president Morsi to death

    May 16, 2015 11:16 PM EST

    ... more than 500 were given death sentences in a separate case, though most were later commuted to life in prison. Like all death sentences in Egypt, the decision must be referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt's top Sunni Muslim religious authority, for consideration. The Mufti is scheduled to make ...