Egypt Archives

Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel were greeted by loved ones in the West Bank and Gaza after the latest hostage-inmate swap

World

Hamas calls on Israel to start talks for next phase of truce

Hamas called on Israel Thursday to enter negotiations for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire after the group handed over the bodies of...

AFPFebruary 27, 2025

A Palestinian Hamas fighter precedes International Red Cross vehicles as they arrive in the central Gaza Strip to receive three Israeli hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the described the ceremonies as "humiliating"

World

Deal back on to exchange Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostage bodies

Mediators have reached an agreement to release all Palestinian prisoners who were due to be freed last week in exchange for the bodies of...

AFPFebruary 25, 2025

Antiquities ministry pictures showing the location and entrance to the tomb

World

Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

Egypt’s antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed...

AFPFebruary 19, 2025

Saturday's phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan and Egypt

World

Egypt’s Sisi tells Trump world ‘counting on’ him for Middle East peace

Saturday's phone call was the first between the two leaders.

AFPFebruary 1, 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025.

World

Trump insists Egypt, Jordan will take Gazans

US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that Egypt and Jordan would take in displaced Gazans, despite the two Arab nations dismissing his plan to...

AFPJanuary 30, 2025

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, where state-aligned media hailed the country's stability in the hours after Syria's Bashar al-Assad was toppled

World

Egypt apprehensive over Islamist win in Syria

The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by...

AFPJanuary 4, 2025

US President Jimmy Carter (C) congratulates Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (R) on March 26, 1979 on the north lawn of the White House after the signing of a historic peace treaty

World

Carter’s Middle East peace legacy survives, but mostly in name

US president Jimmy Carter, who died on Monday, left an enduring legacy when he brokered historic peace between Egypt and Israel — tepid and...

AFPJanuary 1, 2025

Wang Yi and Badr Abdelatty held a joint press conference at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse

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China’s Wang says ‘deeply concerned’ about Syria in talks with Egypt counterpart

Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi told his Egyptian counterpart that China is “deeply concerned” about the situation in Syria. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty...

AFPDecember 13, 2024