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Ethiopia fully launches the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, sparking concerns about Nile water security from Egypt and Sudan.
2025-09-9

A collision between a passenger and a cargo train in Beheira, Egypt kills 15 people and injures 40 more.
2018-02-28

Egyptian government airstrikes on jihadist targets in North Sinai Governorate, leave at least 100 terrorists killed and 40 others wounded.
2016-10-15

Egypt vows to continue an offensive on the Sinai Peninsula until ISIL militants have been removed. A hundred people have been killed in fighting in the past two days.
2015-07-2

Egypt's security forces kill nine 'terrorists' during a raid in a Western Cairo suburb. The group were among "the most dangerous terrorists" wanted in Egypt according to Giza deputy security director Magdy Abd El-Aal. It has also been reported that Nasser al-Hafi, a former MP and a leading lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood was among those killed.
2015-07-1

Three army officers and two protesters are killed and more than one hundred protesters are arrested during anti-government protests across Egypt.
2014-11-28

State television in Egypt lifts a decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters.
2012-09-2

Political leaders of Palestinian group Hamas exit Syria for Egypt and Qatar, saying it could no longer operate in the country.
2012-02-28

Somali pirates seized a Syrian freighter flagged in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines carrying sugar with 24 crew (22 Syrian and 2 Egyptian) in the Gulf of Aden.
2010-08-5

Israel Defense Forces soldiers stop three armed men entering Israel from Egypt, 40 kilometers north of the Israeli city of Eilat. One of them is killed, and the other two flee, leaving behind an explosive device.
2010-06-16