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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says that the "policies of collective punishment" in Gaza are unacceptable and "cannot be justified by self-defence or any other claims".
2023-11-11

Turkey summons its "chargé d'affaires" to Egypt after accusing the Egyptian security forces of raiding the Cairo offices of the state-run Anadolu News Agency and arresting four of its employees.
2020-01-15

Four Egyptian security personnel are killed and another four are injured by a roadside bomb near the border town Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula. Islamist militants are suspected to have remotely detonated the device as an armored vehicle drove by the town's center, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel, security sources told Ahram Online.
2015-12-8

The National Salvation Front, Egypt's main opposition party, announces it will boycott the upcoming parliamentary election.
2013-02-26

Rockets originating from the Egyptian-administrated Sinai Peninsula strike parts of southern Israel.
2012-11-19

2011–2012 Egyptian revolution: Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, lifts Egypt's state of emergency a day before the anniversary of the revolution.
2012-01-24

Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai.
2011-11-28

The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces that the United States will be sending assistance teams to Libya's borders with Algeria and Egypt.
2011-02-28

Gallbladder surgery on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is said to have been successful at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany.
2010-03-6

The cruise ship MS "Costa Europa" crashes into a dock in the Egyptian port of Sharm al-Sheikh, killing three people.
2010-02-26