The armed groups, affiliated with the Union of Sinai Tribes, are controlling the flow of aid and commercial trucks entering ...

As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya's civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to join forces with some of the neighbouring country's powerful tribes. Egypt's ...

AL QULA’AN, Egypt — In the south of Egypt’s Wadi El Gemal protected area, where the desert meets the Red Sea, lies Al-Qula’an, a small village standing on white sand with mangroves in the backdrop.

The governor of Aswan has announced a three-day truce in fighting between rival tribes. Mustafa Yousri said the truce between an Arab clan, Bani Helal, and a Nubian tribe, Daboudiya, would last for ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

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One effect of the upheavals that swept the region since the Arab Spring in 2011 was that the Egyptian military was forced to undertake exceptional and unconventional duties along Egypt’s borders. In ...