Mohamed Mursi

U.S. President Donald Trump said on May 21 he hoped to visit Cairo soon, praising President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after a meeting in Saudi Arabia and declaring that "safety seems to be very strong" in Egypt.

Speaking through a translator, Sisi described Trump as "a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible."

A car bomb targeting a policeman's club in the Egyptian city of El Arish killed six people and wounded 10 on Nov 4, security sources said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for the attack, which it described as a suicide bombing. 

Many Egyptian voters shunned the first phase of a parliamentary election on Oct. 18 that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has hailed as a milestone on the road to democracy but his critics have branded as a sham. 

Egypt summoned the British ambassador to reject as "unacceptable interference" comments he made on an Egyptian court's decision to hand down prison sentences for three Al Jazeera journalists, state media said on Aug. 30.

An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent Brotherhood figures to life in prison on Aug. 22 over an attack on a police station in 2013, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on the group.
   

The United States and Egypt are returning to a ?stronger base? in their relationship despite tensions and concerns over human rights, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Aug. 2 at the first strategic dialogue between the two sides since 2009. 

One of Egypt's most wanted men, a former special forces officer turned Islamist militant commander, has condemned President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and called for a holy war against his government. 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) Egypt affiliate said in a statement on a social media site it carried out an attack in North Sinai on military checkpoints that killed five members of the country's security forces on July 18.

The deaths occurred when several mortar rounds hit two checkpoints, security sources said earlier. 

Six supporters of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were killed in clashes with police in Cairo on July 17, security sources said. The violence in different locations took place as Egyptians marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. 

At least one person was killed July 11 in a powerful explosion that partly damaged the Italian consulate in central Cairo, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said.