The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Former diplomat said senator’s allegedly corrupt actions could have put embassy staff in the sights of Egyptian intelligence

Suicide bombing in Turkey, pre-election tensions in Egypt – here’s the Middle East this week.

The fire ripped through the police facility in the Suez Canal province of Ismailia

Egyptian authorities say a huge fire has broken out in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt, injuring at least 38 people

The New Jersey senator says he won’t resign but a federal indictment lays out a lurid scheme of alleged corruption

Fifty years on from the surprise attack Egypt and Syria launched on Israel, what was its legacy for the region – and what was the effect on the soldiers?

Egypt and Syria’s joint attack ushered in a new dynamic around the fracture lines in the Middle East

Two centuries ago this week, French linguist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had cracked the code of hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian writing system that had puzzled scholars for centuries. RFI tells the story of a breakthrough that revolutionised human understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilisations.

Top Democrat on House foreign policy panel calls for withholding US assistance over Cairo’s human rights record.