Egypt

YemenExtra M.A. Egyptians will head to the polls on March 26-28 in the first round of a presidential election, National Elections Authority chief Lasheen Ibrahim said on Monday. A second round would be held on April 24-26 if…

YemenExtra M.A. Yemeni President, Saleh al-Sammad, sent on Friday a message of sincere condolences to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following a terror attack on a mosque in the Egyptian province of Sinai, which killed at…

YemenExtra M.A. The official spokesman of the Yemeni movement of Ansarullah, Mohammed Abdul Salam, condemned the criminal act that hit a mosque in northern Sinai on Friday, which left hundreds of martyrs and wounded civilians. He…

YemenExtra M.A. At least 235 people were killed and many more wounded in a devastating bomb and gun attack against a mosque in the northern Sinai town of Bir al-Abed, on Friday. A bomb was detonated at the al-Rawdah mosque as Friday…

YemenExtra M.A. Dozens of Egyptian security personnel died Friday while raiding a suspected terrorist insurgency hideout in the country’s western desert. Fifty-four Egyptian police officers have died in the shootout, a security source…

YemenExtra An Egyptian policeman was killed and four wounded by a roadside explosive near the Cairo suburb of Maadi on Sunday, according to a statement for the interior ministry. "At around 12:45am on 18 June as a vehicle…

YemenExtra M.A. Cairo’s criminal court has submitted for consideration by the Grand Mufti the documents sentencing 31 persons to capital punishment over the murder of the country’s Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat two years ago, local TV…

YemenExtra Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties and all land sea and air contacts with Qatar, accusing the Persian Gulf country of supporting terrorism and interfering in their internal affairs. Riyadh…

YemenExtra M.A. About an hour ago, militias loyal to Daesh attacked a bus full of Christian Copts during theri travel on a road in Menyah, Egypt. Officials stated the vehicle had been targeted by over one hundred bullets, leading to the…

YemenExtra M.A. Daesh is making its presence felt on the embattled Sinai Peninsula following a mixture of active alliances with desert tribes and favorable terrain have allowed the terrorist group to manage becoming more powerful than…