Human Rights Watch made the claims

Officials say thunderstorms packing heavy rains and lightning have caused widespread flooding across Egypt, killing at least five people and injuring five others

Thunderstorms and flooding around Egypt entered a second day, interrupting daily life in much of the country, including the capital Cairo,

An Egyptian court has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer and former lawmaker to one year in prison for his conviction on charges that rights advocates have decried as baseless and politically motivated

An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country’s most high-profile militant leaders, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges

Egypt has held a full-honors military funeral for former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted from power in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising

Egypt's restrictions on what it deems inappropriate forms of art have reached a new height with a ban on a popular genre of street music.

Mubarak was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.

Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by a popular revolt in 2011, has died at the age of 91, the country's state TV said on Tuesday.

A dual U.S.-Egyptian national who won a court order to be released from a Cairo prison will remain in jail after a prosecution appeal was accepted on Thursday.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of a dual U.S.-Egyptian national who was arrested upon her arrival at the Cairo airport in July 2019.

Egypt’s chief prosecutor is denying allegations that the police tortured a human rights activist and vocal critic of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi

The family of an American citizen who died in an Egyptian prison said they are disappointed that they haven't heard from President Donald Trump or other senior officials.

Egypt's official statistics agency says the country's fast-growing population has hit 100 million

Egyptian police have arrested an activist and researcher who has been a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government

Egypt has freed a pro-democracy activist who spent over four years in prison and rose to local prominence as one of the faces of the 2011 uprising

At least six masked militants planted explosives under the pipeline.

A 12-year-old girl has died in southern Egypt after her parents brought her this week to a doctor who preformed female genital mutilation, a criminal practice that remains widespread in the region

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed outrage to Egypt’s president at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in an Egyptian prison

Congress urges President Donald Trump to sanction Egypt for U.S. citizen Mustafa Kassem's death after he pleaded for help.

Egypt says it will investigate the death in custody of a U.S. citizen who had gone on hunger strike as part of a six-year battle against what he insisted was wrongful imprisonment

Mustafa Kassem who had been in jail for more than six years, died amid a hunger strike Monday.

A senior security official says police have arrested seven young men for allegedly taking part in a mob sexual assault of a young woman during New Year's Eve celebrations

The attack has reignited controversy over street violence against women.

Hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants call Cairo their temporary home

An Egyptian human rights activist missing since earlier this month called his wife to tell her he was about to be taken to a Cairo prosecutor's office for questioning

"Armed and terrorist militias" in Tripoli hold Libya "hostage," el-Sissi says.

The discovery also included the "biggest scarab in the world" as well as mummies of at least two cubs at the Saqqara necropolis.

Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of independent news website Mada Masr on Sunday and arrested three journalists, who have since been released.

Egypt unveiled a "one of a kind" discovery of a cache containing hundreds of statues and mummified animals on Saturday.

Egypt says archeologists unearthed mummy of unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness

Egypt unveils 3,000-year-old wooden coffins in Luxor. They date back to the 22nd Dynasty in the 10th century BC.

Egypt has unveiled a 3,500-year-old industrial district near the Nile River in Luxor.

A 2,200-year-old Egyptian temple was discovered on the Nile.

Court referred the case of 7 facing terrorism charges to the religious authority

Egypt has loosened security measures in the capital, Cairo, a day after it sealed off the main square and thoroughfares downtown to thwart a possible protest against the country's president

Last Friday, rare protests calling for el-Sissi to step down erupted in Cairo.

Interior Ministry says Egyptian security forces have killed six suspected members of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in a shootout in Cairo

Wael Ghonim lives in self-imposed exile in California.

Businessman-in-exile alleges the military is "sheer lies and defamation."

The prosecution of a 15-year-old girl who killed a bus driver after he allegedly tried to rape her has reignited debate over the treatment of women in Egypt's legal system, including the practice of virginity tests and blaming victims of sexual violence

He died shortly after arriving in hospital.

Egypt says it has started the first-ever restoration on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country's new museum opening next year

Amnesty says that pro-democracy activists are targeted by authorities.

British Airways official said the decision to suspend flights to Cairo, Egypt, "has nothing to do with Cairo airport."

Egypt has started a project to restore the wooden coffin of Tutankhamun for the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922.

The pyramid was built by Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu in 2600 BC.

Egypt has opened two of its oldest pyramids, located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of the capital Cairo, to visitors for the first time since 1965

Christie's auctioned it off last week despite Cairo's objections.