Fears for Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa, behind bars in Egypt
The plight of the Al-Jazeera three has focused the spotlight on the dark side of the Egyptian regime, including the case of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa.
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Dr Hisham Hellyer, who is from the Royal United Services Institute and author of A Revolution Undone, about Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, discusses the mosque killings.
More than 200 people have been killed in a gun and bomb attack on a mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai province. Officials said militants in four vehicles opened fire on mainly Sufi worshippers during Friday prayers, blocking off escape routes by blowing up cars. Egypt’s President pledged to respond with “brutal force”. A warning: there…
Human rights campaigners say they’ve substantiated claims that members of the Egyptian military carried out at least seven unlawful killings, including a 17 year old boy shot dead at point blank range.
A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus.
Thousands of Britons remain stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh after rescue flights were forced to turn back in mid-air.
Moscow suspending passenger flights to Egypt after the Sinai air crash, just a day after suggesting Britain had acted prematurely by grounding jets.
Pro and anti-Sisi demonstrators clash as David Cameron welcomes the controversial leader, who is accused of mass human rights abuses.
Egyptian security forces have “accidentally” killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and wounded 10, by mistaking a tourist convoy for militants.
Sinai Province, an extremist group affiliated with Islamic State militants, claims to have launched a rocket at an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean, setting it ablaze.
At least 70 people die in a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Lasting several hours, the assault targets several military checkpoints.
Egypt’s public prosecutor Hisham Barakat dies in hospital after being wounded in a car bombing as he was leaving his home in Cairo.
Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is sentenced to death along with 105 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohamed Morsi, who was toppled from the Egyptian presidency in 2013, is sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole for the killing of protesters in December 2012.
The plight of the Al-Jazeera three has focused the spotlight on the dark side of the Egyptian regime, including the case of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa.
The US removes its restriction on supplying military equipment to Egypt, which was imposed when the military took power in Cairo nearly two years ago.