An Egyptian court froze the assets of two NGOs and their founders on Wednesday, in a controversial probe into civil society groups that has been criticised by the United Nations. The court is investigating civil society groups on suspicion of receiving illegal foreign funding. Wednesday’s decision comes months after an ...
ISIL terrorist group said Tuesday that it was behind the car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed eight people a day earlier. The group’s Egyptian branch, Sinai Province, said in a statement that “soldiers of the caliphate” had staged the assault on the checkpoint ...
