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.

Ancient artifacts like amulets, scarabs, shells and chains will be on display.

Egyptian officials say militants have stormed a post office in the northern Sinai Peninsula and seized around $6,000 in local currency

The pyramid was built during the reign of 12th dynasty pharaoh Senusret II, who ruled Egypt from 1897 B.C. to 1878 B.C., according to the antiquities ministry.

The pyramid was first discovered by a British archaeologist in 1889.

Death of former Egyptian President Morsi brief rallying point for Muslim Brotherhood as movement's influence wanes across Mideast

Strong winds earlier took 11 tourists off course and forced them to land.

Egyptian officials: 11 tourists safe after winds take their hot air balloon off course, forcing landing in the desert

Mohammed Morsi collapsed inside a Cairo courtroom and died this week.

Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was laid to rest in a quiet burial ceremony after dying in during a court hearing on June 17.

Youssef El-Arabi, 13, was accidentally shot in Cairo two years ago.

An Islamist, Mohammed Morsi was Egypt's first democratically-elected president.

Egypt's state TV says Mohammed Morsi, the Brotherhood leader who became the country's first freely elected president and who was ousted by the military after a year in office, died during a court session