The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilali has died after a controversial public life, which included his jailing in Egypt and comparing women to exposed meat.

US lawmakers are demanding probe into allegations that Egypt was involved in bribery scheme with Senator Bob Menendez.

The New Jersey senator says he won’t resign but a federal indictment lays out a lurid scheme of alleged corruption

Fifty years on from the surprise attack Egypt and Syria launched on Israel, what was its legacy for the region – and what was the effect on the soldiers?

Egypt and Syria’s joint attack ushered in a new dynamic around the fracture lines in the Middle East

Two centuries ago this week, French linguist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had cracked the code of hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian writing system that had puzzled scholars for centuries. RFI tells the story of a breakthrough that revolutionised human understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilisations.

Top Democrat on House foreign policy panel calls for withholding US assistance over Cairo’s human rights record.

The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he's considering policy changes toward Egypt, Turkey and other countries as he took over the powerful leadership of the panel

Deal allows the two central banks to exchange up to five billion Emirati dirhams and 42 billion Egyptian pounds.