Protests in Egypt

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.
   

A shadowy group of militant football fans who have largely laid low since they participated in mass anti-government protests in 2013 that led to the military ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have claimed responsibility for a car bomb near a Cairo security building that injured at least six policemen late on Aug. 19.

The United States began July 30 delivery of eight F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, according to its embassy in Cairo, the first since Washington fully lifted in March a freeze on arms delivery.

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. 

The explosion of a car bomb near the Italian Consulate in the Egyptian capital on Saturday claimed the life of at least one person and injured four people.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which has left the building in central Cairo severely damaged.

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.
 

Two years after the army deposed president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt is roiled by brazen Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and brutal government repression that has killed hundreds.

A visibly angry Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged tougher laws against militants and suggested fast track executions at the funeral on June 30 of the state prosecutor assassinated in a car bombing.

Turkey released late June 29 just a one-sentence statement to condemn a terrorist attack against an Egyptian prosecutor who had issued a death sentence against Mohamed Morsi, the ousted president of Egypt.