Israel is facing international pressure to abandon plans for an all-out offensive on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where around 1.4 million people have...
Civilians have been heading to the Rafah crossing to leave Gaza after the gates were opened for the first time since Israel’s siege began. The United...
The leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has arrived in Cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire in Gaza. Egypt, along with Qatar, helped to broker a...
Militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province, killing 235 people, state media say. Witnesses say the al-Rawda...
Security forces in Egypt are continuing an operation in the north of the Sinai peninsula after deadly attacks by militants who claim allegiance to the Islamic...
Three Israeli soldiers have been killed by an Egyptian policeman in shootings in Israeli territory near the border with Egypt, Israel’s … source
Lyse Doucet visits Cairo’s presidential palace for an exclusive interview with Egypt’s new strongman, President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi. After spending four decades in the military, he came...
Egyptian Bassem Youssef – hailed as the Middle East’s answer to popular US TV satirist Jon Stewart – presents his own take on the state of...
Egypt is celebrating the centenary year of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. When the archaeological dig began on 4 November 1922 it led to...
Subscribe to BBC News www.youtube.com/bbcnews Find out about the details which have made this deal possible. A long-term ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and Palestinian...
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