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At least three people are killed and 49 others are injured in a train collision in Zagazig, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt.
2024-09-14

The Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo, Syria, opens to the public for the first time since 2013. Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammoud says regular commercial flights will begin within days, starting with Cairo, Egypt.
2020-02-17

Egyptian authorities order the closure of the Egyptian branch of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), a prominent NGO that documents alleged human rights abuses and treats torture victims. Amnesty International condemns the closure of the Nadeem centre, saying the NGO gives a lifeline to hundreds of victims of torture and families of people subjected to enforced disappearances.
2016-02-17

A bomb explodes outside French supermarket Carrefour in Alexandria, Egypt, killing one person and wounding six.
2015-03-8

Two suicide bombers ram a car with explosives. Egyptian military says one hit the local branch of military intelligence, while the other struck an army checkpoint in Rafah killing nine soldiers and wounding 17 others.
2013-09-11

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the third round of voting for the lower house of the national parliament.
2012-01-3

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won a majority of seats in the runoff election.
2011-12-7

Islamist parties win the first stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice Party first at 37% of the vote, and the more hardline Salafi Al-Nour Party in second place with 24% of the vote.
2011-12-4

Internet access is partially restored in Egypt after a five-day blackout.
2011-02-2

2 Egyptian peacekeepers are killed and 3 are injured by gunmen near Edd al-Fursan, South Darfur.
2010-05-7