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The U.S. State Department freezes nearly all foreign aid except military aid to Israel and Egypt, as well as emergency food programs.
2025-01-24

Israeli airstrikes hit near the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after an Israeli official advised Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip through the border crossing.
2023-10-10

The Russian military launches cruise missile strikes from the Mediterranean on ISIS positions in Al-Raqqah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's de facto capital in Syria, Aleppo, and Idlib. A U.S. official confirms that Russia has conducted a significant number of strikes in Syria using both sea-launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to escalate his military campaign in Syria after it was confirmed that a bomb brought down Metrojet Flight 9268 over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
2015-11-17

An unspecified-type Egyptian military aircraft crashes due to a 'technical failure' near the Libyan border killing four crew members and injuring two others.
2015-08-13

At least 25 people have been killed and 22 injured at a fire in a furniture factory in Obour City near the Egyptian capital Cairo.
2015-07-28

Egypt charges former president Mohammed Morsi and nine others for leaking sensitive government information to Qatar.
2014-09-6

Egypt formally ends its 31-year state of emergency, which gave security forces broad powers to suppress civil unrest and detain dissenters.
2012-05-31

More than 80 per cent of votes in the Egyptian constitutional referendum support liberal reforms.
2011-03-20

Hundreds of Egyptian workers protest outside Egypt's cabinet building to request a rise in their minimum wage.
2010-05-3

Three car bombs hit the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people.
2010-04-4