The Latest Breaking News from AbdelFattah elSissi

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will meet with Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi after the two leaders exchanged a handshake earlier this month at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has spent most of the past decade in prison because of his criticism of Egypt's rulers, went on hunger strike earlier this month as the UN climate conference came to Sharm el-Sheikh

It comes one day after he broke a water strike

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says they received a letter from him on Tuesday

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said Tuesday they received a letter from him saying he has ended his hunger strike.

Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with imprisoned pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated his hunger strike and stopped drinking water, his family said Thursday, demanding his release. The drama surrounding his fate is coinciding with Egypt’s hosting of the U.N. climate summit.

Egypt’s prosecutors are refuting allegations of torture and ill-treatment against one of the country's most prominent jailed activists

On the day Tunisia’s democracy died, it fell to a State Department spokesperson to deliver the Biden administration’s mealy-mouthed pieties. Asked about the July 25 constitutional referendum that allowed President Kais Saied to institutionalize one-man rule in the North African nation, Ned Price offered the following observations:

Egypt and Serbia have agreed to boost political, economic and other cooperation as the two countries look for ways to deal with the global impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will try to use his three-nation tour of the Middle East and North Africa to reassure wary Israelis and Arabs that the Biden administration is committed to the region’s security at a time when Washington is confronting multiple foreign policy challenges