An explosion on Sunday near the Cairo's Coptic cathedral killed at least five people and injured 10, Egyptian security sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. On Friday, two roadside bombs - one in Cairo and one north of the capital - killed six policemen and...

Six policemen were killed and three injured on Friday when a bomb placed in a garbage bin exploded at a security checkpoint in Cairo, security sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Al Haram street leading to the Pyramids, in which four civilians were...

Egyptian police Thursday arrested the son of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on charges linked to a protest against his father's ouster that resulted in hundreds of deaths, officials said. Osama Morsi's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said police arrested him at his home in the...

The Egyptian president is defending the tough economic measures his government has undertaken, saying there was no other alternative in the face of deteriorating economy. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says that "structural reforms" are an imperative for Egypt and that the measures that have been...