Egypt's Cabinet sent two personal status bills with 355 articles to parliament, overhauling divorce, custody and inheritance for Muslims and Christians.
How Ancient Greece and Egypt Shaped Each Other Before Alexander
The ties between ancient Greece and Egypt began centuries before Alexander, built on Greek mercenaries, the Delta port of Naucratis and shared gods.
Eight Viral Claims About the Israel Palestine Conflict, Checked
An essay published by Aish, a Jewish educational organization, under the title "8 Things a Non-Jew Learned about the Middle East Conflict," has spread widely...
How the Muslim Brotherhood Label Became a Tool to Silence Muslims
On January 13, 2026, the U.S. State Department and Treasury blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, citing alleged support for Hamas. Within...
Iran Hit 20 US Bases and Tore a Hole in the THAAD Shield
Satellite imagery reviewed by BBC Verify, the broadcaster's fact-checking unit, shows Iran struck at least 20 American military bases across eight countries since the war...
Hezbollah-Israel Truce Now Hinges on Iran and the Hormuz Deal
Lebanon's embassy in Washington said Hezbollah has accepted a US proposal to stop attacking Israel in exchange for an end to Israeli strikes on Beirut's...
Egypt Legalizes 191 Churches as a Bigger Christian Law Looms
Egypt's cabinet has granted legal status to 191 churches and affiliated buildings, the 30th such batch since a committee was created in 2016 to regularize...
Gaza Mediators Reopen Hamas Disarmament Talks as Partition Plan Returns
Gaza disarmament talks restart in Egypt on Thursday with the same wall in front of them, but the more consequential move is happening away from...
Iran Halts US Talks as a Two-Chokepoint Squeeze Looms
Iran cut its last working line to Washington on Monday. Tehran's negotiating team said it would stop exchanging messages with the United States through mediators,...
Israel Retakes Beaufort Castle, Reviving Its Lebanon Trap
Israeli soldiers raised their flag over Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Sunday, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a turning point in the...
Iran Sends a Third of Its Hajj Quota as Pilgrims Head Home
Iranian pilgrims began flying home from Saudi Arabia on Monday after performing the annual Hajj, with about 30,000 Iranian pilgrims making the journey this year,...
Egypt Wins First Silver Shield at Saudi Labbaytum Hajj Award
Egypt's Hajj mission has won the Silver Shield at Saudi Arabia's Labbaytum Excellence Award for the first time, recognised in the Hajj Affairs Offices category...
France Seizes Russian Oil Tanker Tagor in Atlantic Shadow Fleet Raid
France seized the Tagor, a sanctioned tanker hauling Russian crude, in the Atlantic roughly 400 nautical miles west of Brittany on Sunday morning, President Emmanuel...
US Signals Green Light for Israel to Escalate in Beirut
Washington has signaled it will not press Israel to hold its fire in Beirut, even while floating a de-escalation framework that puts the first move...
Egypt Pushes $500M Metro Link to Cairo Airport as Debt Bites
Egypt's Ministry of Transport is moving on the fifth phase of Cairo Metro Line 3, an "Airport Link" of seven new stations running 9.2 kilometers...
Mamdani Boycotts Israel Day Parade as NY Democrats March On
More than 50,000 people marched up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for New York's Israel Day parade on Sunday, and the city's mayor was not among them....