Tag: Clashes

Egyptian security forces stand by their Armoured Personell Carriers ahead of a military operation in the northern Sinai peninsula on 8 August AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
EgyptPolitics

Tribesmen killed in Sinai as unrest continues

The exact identity of the attackers remains unclear at this point yet

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam

Prison break out in Tripoli

According to reports in the Tripoli Post, a riot and gun battles…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Egyptian soldiers stand on top of an Egyptian armoured personnel carrier at a military checkpoint on the Egyptian side of Rafah AFP PHOTO/MOSTAFA ABULEZZ
EgyptPolitics

Sinai attack repercussions continue

The Egyptian military reported it had killed 20 so-called terrorists on Friday…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
A Syrian refugee walks after undergoing a medical check at a Moroccan military field hospital in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the kingdom's northern city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on August 11, 2012. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
PoliticsRegion

Jordan-Syria border clashes

The Jordanian border to Syria serves as a gateway for Syrian refugees…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
An Egyptian Copt monk burns incense prior to the Coptic Easter celebration mass (File photo) AFP PHOTO / CRIS BOURONCLE
EgyptPolitics

Coptic leaders criticise new cabinet

“This cabinet is unjust for Copts" said Bishop Pachomious

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
The guards were ambushed by members of an unknown group in Algeria's northwestern province of Tlemcen (file photo: AFP)
PoliticsRegion

Gunfire at the Morocco-Algeria border leaves three border guards dead

The Algerian border guards were killed in an ambush

Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa
Black smoke rises from burning cars as Egyptian firefighters and bystanders try to extinguish several cars that caught on fire outside the Nile City Towers during clashes on August 2, 2012 (photo: AFP /GIANLUIGI GUERCIA)
EgyptPolitics

Violence erupts at Nile City Towers

A man from Ramlet Boulaq, a poor district behind the Nile City…

Connor Molloy
Connor Molloy
Protesters against the Prime Minister and his cabinet use makeshift shields to approach the Shura Council building during clashes with the army in December 2011 (photo: AFP/Mohamed Hossam)
EgyptPolitics

Fights erupt at Cabinet Building protest trial

Fights erupted on Sunday after a court postponed the trial of the…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
PoliticsRegion

Syria turmoil threatens Lebanon stability

Many have fled the violence in Syria to neighbouring countries including Lebanon…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Fighting between the Lebanese army and an armed Palestinian group in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp (File photo)
Region

Lebanese Judge calls for the death penalty for 88 involved in clashes

Judge Ghassan Oueidat recommended the death penalty for 88 people involved in…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez