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Egypt’s Defense Purchases Bill at LE81 bn in 2015

  The deal, which was announced in September, is worth 950 million euros (US$1.06 billion).   This will be Egypt’s second arms deal with France after the...

5-Year Blasphemy Sentence Confirmed for Egyptian TV Anchor

    An Egyptian appeals court upheld Saturday a five-year prison sentence against TV anchor Islam El-Behery, a prominent researcher in Islamic studies, for "contempt of...

Egypt Begins Surveillance of Facebook, Twitter, Skype and YouTube on Unprecedented Scale

    Egyptians’ online communications are now being monitored by the sister company of an American cybersecurity firm, giving the Egyptian government an unprecedented ability to...

Over 60 Embassies to Observe Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections

  Ahram Online interviewed a researcher at the Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, Sobhi Eseila, who suggested that “the state has a vision”...

ISIS in New Video to Christians In Qaryatayn, Syria: Pay Jizya — or You Will Be Executed and Your Wives Enslaved

  The video, posted on Archive.org and disseminated via social media, including on Twitter under the Damascus Province hashtag, deals with ISIS's imposition of a...

Islamic State Threats to Kill Christians in Syria in Video Showing Executions

  The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) killed three Assyrian Christians late last month, presumably in Syria, according to an execution video released Wednesday (Oct....

Former Egyptian General Sees His Bloc Leading New Parliament

  Egypt's first parliamentary election in three years is due to begin on Oct. 18, the final step in a roadmap President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...

The Men Who Pretend to Be Syrian Refugees

  One by one, the head of the vetting team led by Frontex, a European Union agency that works between member states to secure EU...

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