egypt bomb blast

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended for three months from Saturday a state of emergency for the fourth time since it was first declared last year, the official gazette said. A nationwide state of emergency was first imposed in April last year after two church bombings claimed by the...

A terrorist attack on a packed Egyptian mosque has claimed the lives of more than 235 worshipers. A bomb reportedly went off at the Rawda mosque dominated by Muslims of the Sufi order before gunmen opened fire on worshipers that gathered for the weekly Friday prayers. Eyewitnesses said the...

A blast next to a police checkpoint in Cairo killed six people on Friday, state media and officials said. State television reported that the “explosion” occurred in the Talibiya district in the west of the capital. A prosecution official and a police official said it occurred next to a...