Unknown armed assailants kill at least 11 Egyptian troops during an attack in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Prominent Egyptian activist and a key figure in the country's 2011 revolution, Alaa Abdel Fattah, began a hunger strike in prison at the start of the holy month of Ramadan, his family said Monday.

Of the ten convicts, nine were in custody while one was sentenced in absentia.

The Biden administration announces ironic cancellation of $130 million in military aid to Egypt over alleged human rights concerns just days after approving a huge $2.5 billion arms sale to the despotic regime.

Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath has been freed after almost two and a half years in pre-trial detention in Egypt, his family say.

An Italian parliamentary panel blames the Egyptian security for the 2016 murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo.

Classified documents reveal civilian killings by Egypt along the Libyan border with assistance of France through a secret military operation.