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  • Desperately needed aid trickles into besieged Gaza as Egypt's border crossing opens

    Desperately needed aid trickles into besieged Gaza as Egypt's border crossing opens

    Oct 21, 2023 04:24 PM EST

    Israel issued a travel warning on Saturday, ordering its citizens to leave Egypt and Jordan — which made peace with it decades ago — and to avoid travel to a number of Arab and Muslim countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain, which forged diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020 ...

  • Why Egypt and other Arab nations are hesitant to take in Palestinian refugees

    Why Egypt and other Arab nations are hesitant to take in Palestinian refugees

    Oct 18, 2023 10:44 PM EST

    ... time, Egypt says a mass exodus from Gaza would bring Hamas or other Palestinian militants onto its soil. That might be destabilizing in Sinai, where Egypt's military fought for years against Islamic militants and at one point accused Hamas of backing them. Egypt has backed Israel’s blockade of ...

  • WATCH: Biden addresses Egypt’s move to allow aid into Gaza aboard Air Force One

    WATCH: Biden addresses Egypt’s move to allow aid into Gaza aboard Air Force One

    Oct 18, 2023 10:15 PM EST

    ... and command centers and accuses the militants of hiding among civilians. Debre and Nessman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press journalists Amy Teibel in Jerusalem; Samya Kullab in Baghdad; Abby Sewell in Beirut; Samy Magdy and Jack Jeffrey in Cairo; and Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt, contributed to this report.

  • Israel says it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza, as food and water dwindle

    Israel says it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza, as food and water dwindle

    Oct 18, 2023 03:36 PM EST

    ... long area south of the evacuation zone, the U.N. said. Debre and Nessman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press journalists Amy Teibel in Jerusalem; Samya Kullab in Baghdad; Abby Sewell in Beirut; Samy Magdy and Jack Jeffrey in Cairo; and Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt, contributed to this report.

  • Israel's call for Gaza evacuation raises fears of a mass exodus of refugees into Egypt

    Israel's call for Gaza evacuation raises fears of a mass exodus of refugees into Egypt

    Oct 13, 2023 08:13 PM EST

    ... blasted through the border fence with Egypt, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to flood into Sinai. The state-run al-Ahram daily reported that Egyptian authorities warned Hamas’ leaders in recent days against any repeat of that. The official said Egyptian officials have been communicating “around the clock” with ...

  • News Wrap: Federal prosecutors charge Sen. Menendez with acting as foreign agent of Egypt

    News Wrap: Federal prosecutors charge Sen. Menendez with acting as foreign agent of Egypt

    Oct 12, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, federal prosecutors leveled a new charge alleging Sen. Bob Menendez conspired to act as a foreign agent of Egypt, the White House denounced former Donald Trump's criticism of top Israeli officials for failing to anticipate the Hamas attack and the Social Security Administration announced that benefits will increase by 3.2...

  • Sen. Menendez charged with being unregistered agent of the Egyptian government

    Sen. Menendez charged with being unregistered agent of the Egyptian government

    Oct 12, 2023 05:14 PM EST

    ... to secretly aid Egyptian officials. That included ghostwriting a letter to fellow senators encouraging them to lift a hold on $300 million in aid to Egypt. He was also accused of passing along information about employees at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and transmitting nonpublic information to Egyptian officials ...

  • Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Egypt among 6 nations set to join China and India in BRICS economic bloc

    Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Egypt among 6 nations set to join China and India in BRICS economic bloc

    Aug 24, 2023 02:18 PM EST

    ... Russia amid Moscow's war on Ukraine, much to the chagrin of Washington, which long has provided security guarantees for the major oil-producing nations. Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said in a statement that his country would cooperate and coordinate with the rest of the members to achieve ...

  • A look at Egypt's struggles 10 years after soldiers killed hundreds in Rabaa massacre

    A look at Egypt's struggles 10 years after soldiers killed hundreds in Rabaa massacre

    Aug 17, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    It was basically not just the end of the promise of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but really the end of our country as we know it. Egypt was never really a liberal democracy. It was always a country with a problematic human rights record and serious areas of concerns ...

  • Senate Democrats urge Biden to withhold $320 million in military aid to Egypt over rights abuses

    Senate Democrats urge Biden to withhold $320 million in military aid to Egypt over rights abuses

    Jul 28, 2023 08:34 PM EST

    ... contingent on Egypt’s government showing progress on rights, although the State Department can partially override that, on national security grounds.While shared U.S.-Egyptian security objectives make it important for the U.S. to continue supporting Egypt’s military in general, the senators argued, “we can continue to ...

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