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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tells the Cairo Peace Summit the international community must avoid an escalation in the war in Gaza and set a roadmap towards a two-state solution.
2023-10-20

Egypt invites rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to meet in Cairo in a bid to halt violent protests at the Israeli-Gazan border.
2018-04-17

An Egyptian court sentences 185 people to death over their alleged involvement in a lethal attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo.
2014-12-2

Supporters of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood clash with police at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. One person is killed and two campus buildings are set on fire.
2013-12-28

A school bus carrying about 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 350 km (230 miles) south of Egyptian capital Cairo. At least 50 children and the driver are killed in the crash. The Egyptian minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns.
2012-11-17

Turkey threatens to launch a military incursion into northern Syria to protect fleeing refugees.
2012-03-15

Syrian forces open fire on protesters in the capital Damascus.
2012-02-21

Local coordination committees in Syria call for a day of remembrance for lives lost in the ongoing uprising.
2012-01-30

2011–2012 Syrian uprising: At least 10 people are killed in violence after Friday prayers.
2012-01-20

A large protest with as many as a million people participating is planned for the Egyptian capital Cairo over perceived lack of progress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
2011-07-12