Sources: BBC
The Rafah Border Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is reopened for the first time since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago during the Rafah offensive. 2025-02-1
The Egyptian government announces the start of clinical trials for COVI-VAX, which is the country’s first domestically-made COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-11-14
An Egyptian UN peacekeeper is killed and another injured after a bomb planted by jihadists detonates under a truck that was part of a UN logistics convoy. 2021-01-15
Two roadside bombings near Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, kill three Egyptian Army troops and wound 10 others. Separately, Egyptian military raids on Sheikh Zuweid kill four Islamist militants. 2020-12-17
An Egyptian court jails three Muslim Brotherhood members for life and 36 others for ten years each for terror offences. Fourteen others are acquitted. 2018-04-18
Egypt's state news agency says President Mohammed Morsi is to attend the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Iran at the end of August. 2012-08-18
300 people are arrested in Egypt following yesterday's violent clashes outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo. 2012-05-5
Teenager from the Gaza Strip who was alleged to have been killed by IDF soldiers last week, released from an Egyptian prison, after infiltrating the Egyptian border through an underground tunnel and saying that he and several Palestinian teenagers who were with him were tortured by Egyptian soldiers while in prison. 2010-04-6