Sources: BBC
Fifteen people are killed and eight others are injured when a truck and four microbuses collide in Alexandria, Egypt. 2024-02-14
Two roadside bombings near Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, kill three Egyptian Army troops and wound 10 others. Separately, Egyptian military raids on Sheikh Zuweid kill four Islamist militants. 2020-12-17
The Egyptian Parliament approves a draft law creating the 18-member Supreme Council for Combating Terrorism and Extremism. The new body is headed by the President and is expected to also contain the Prime Minister, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the defence and interior ministers. The new body replaces the National Council to Combat Terrorism and Extremism created by Presidential decree by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2017. 2018-04-2
A day after the second round of parliamentary elections closes, militants attack a hotel housing election judges in the provincial capital of al-Arish in Egypt's North Sinai. At least seven people are killed and 12 others injured, including two judges. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch claims responsibility. 2015-11-24
Egypt intercepts a Togolese flagged ship carrying a large arsenal of weapons. It is believed the ship was headed to Iran. 2013-04-4
Authorities in Egypt suspend the prison sentences of 120 protesters who participated in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. 2011-05-19
Mohamed ElBaradei, of the Egyptian opposition, raises concerns that clashes in Cairo could escalate into a "bloodbath". 2011-02-2
Officials in 3 Egyptian governorates declare a state of emergency after a barge leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River north of Aswan. 2010-09-11
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he does not mind the nomination of the former Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei in the next presidential election as long as it is under the framework of existing constitution. 2010-03-4
Egyptian archaeologists discover the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis. 2010-01-4