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A woman was killed as security forces dispersed a march by the Socialist Popular Alliance Party on Saturday in central Cairo.

Shaimaa al-Sabag, one of dozens of marchers, was shot by pellets at close range, according to a statement issued by the party. The health ministry has confirmed her..

Protesters were attacked on their march to the presidential palace by unknown groups of men.

A protest on Saturday in Cairo against a controversial law regulating demonstrations was dispersed after groups of people threw rocks and glass bottles at the protesters.

Police forces subseq..

Cairo-based writer and political activist Bassem Sabry won widespread acclaim across the political spectrum for his astute observations of Egyptian politics.

Well-known pro-democracy blogger and writer Bassem Sabry died on Tuesday at the age of thirty-one.

Widely acclaimed for his ad..

Activists arrested following dispersal of downtown protest, second in one day.

Police forces dispersed another Tuesday protest in Cairo`s downtown thirty minutes after it commenced, arresting several activists after using water cannons and teargas, the day after a new controversial protest..

`Revolutionaries` front launched on Tuesday in Cairo to provide `alternative path to military and Muslim Brotherhood`.

A new front, dubbed "Revolution Path Front" aimed at providing an alternative to the current "polarization" between the military and Muslim Brotherhood..

Eight wounded, no deaths in a bombing targeting Egypt`s interior minister convoy Thursday, minister survives.

Egypt`s Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim survived an assassination attempt when a bomb detonated early on Thursday near his convoy in northeast Cairo, officials told Ahr..

Former president and fourteen Islamist leaders accused of inciting violence in December clashes head to criminal court.

Late on Sunday, Egypt`s prosecutor-general ordered the referral of cases against deposed president Mohamed Morsi and fourteen other defendants to criminal court, concerni..

Pro-Brotherhood` protesters take to the streets following Friday prayers; police say they will use live fire in `legitimate self-defense`.

Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi began rallying across Egypt on Friday afternoon in response to a call by the Muslim Brotherhood`s National..

El-Beltagy was on the run since the police`s bloody crackdown on pro-Morsi sit-in.

Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohamed El-Beltagy has been arrested Thursday in Giza governorate, Ahram Arabic website reported.

El-Beltagy was observed by the police for two days before his arrest i..

The Front for Defence of Egyptian Protesters accuses Egyptian Prosecution of `arbitrarily extending detentions and limiting access to lawyers for pro-Morsi protesters`.

On Wednesday, the Front for Defense of Egyptian Protesters (FDEP)–a group of Egyptian NGOs and activists providing legal ..

Prosecutor General refers report accusing well known activists Asmaa Mahfouz and Esraa Abdel-Fattah of espionage to Supreme State Security Prosecution.

Egypt`s General Prosecutor, Hesham Barakat, has asked the Supreme State Security Prosecution to investigate a report filed against politic..

Security forces round up twenty-six Muslim Brotherhood leaders over their alleged involvement in violent clashes in Egypt`s Nile Delta city of Tanta on Friday.

Egyptian authorities on Saturday referred twenty-six Muslim Brotherhood leaders to State Security Emergency Prosecution in the Del..

Angry mobs reportedly attacked pro-Morsi demonstrations and houses of Brotherhood members in Daqahliya and Gharbiya, leaving one dead in the latter governorate on `Friday of Martyrs`.

Violence broke out Friday in several cities across Egypt as demonstrations by mostly Islamist supporters o..

Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators take to streets in Cairo and several provinces decrying Morsi`s ouster and killing of hundreds of protesters last week, army and police forces tighten security at protest sites.

Marches are underway in several parts of Egypt on Friday with thousands tak..

Ahmed Aref, the official spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood, is arrested in Nasr City, Cairo, early Thursday

Security officials announced Thursday that official Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Ahmed Aref was arrested earlier in the day in Cairo.

Security sources told MENA, the st..

Brotherhood spokesman publishes on his Facebook page the first official statement on the arrest of their Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei.

In their first official statement since the arrest of their Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie on Monday, Muslim Brotherhood Spokesperson Ahmed Aref says his arres..

Egyptian police conscripts were attacked and killed on Sunday near the Egypt-Israeli border in the Sinai Peninsula.

At least twenty-five Egyptian policemen were killed when suspected militants ambushed a personnel carrier near Rafah-the crossing on the Israeli-Egypt border.

Egypt`s i..

Violence by Morsi supporters leaves dozens of Christian churches, Coptic-owned businesses and properties burnt; fears grow among Egypt`s Christian minority of widespread sectarian strife.

Churches across Egypt came under frenzied attack Thursday as the country became convulsed in violent t..

Interim VP Mohamed ElBaradei says he would gladly lead talks with Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, to end ongoing stalemate and prevent more bloodshed.

Egypt`s interim Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei said a safe exit for all the Muslim Brotherhood leaders is "on the table,..

Third sit-in in Cairo launched as well as three massive marches calling for ousted president`s reinstatement; earlier demonstration at media complex leaves two police injured.

Mohamed Morsi`s Muslim Brotherhood and supporters staged fresh defiant rallies in Egypt following government order..

Brotherhood plan to continue their Cairo sit-ins despite cabinet`s instructions to police to disperse them.

The Muslim Brotherhood described a decision by the Egyptian cabinet to order security forces to disperse a pro-Morsi sit-in as “terrorism.”

“Morsi loyalists will continue their..

Prosecution orders arrest of Brotherhood`s Osama Yassin, Essam El-Erian; extends detention for leading figures pending investigation.

Egypt`s general prosecutor ordered on Wednesday the referral of the Muslim Brotherhood`s supreme guide Mohamed Badie, deputy supreme guide Khairat El-Shater..