News & Reports

By NYT – Gen. Abbas Kamel, a longtime confidant of Egypt’s president, oversaw the country’s most important international relationships and helped maintain the president’s authoritarian [...]

By MEMRI- On September 28, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed that on September 27, its operatives captured and beheaded a Christian, near the village of Lolwa, in [...]

By NYT – She was returned to her family in Iraq after a complex operation involving the United States, Jordan and others. The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had rescued a 21-year-old [...]

By MadaMasr- Political prisoner, writer and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah was due to be released on September 29, after five years in detention. Instead, the activist is set to spend another two [...]

By Daraj (*) – For a long time, Christians in Egypt have struggled to become professional football players, often failing, and finding no role models on the field to inspire them. This lack [...]

By NYT – The deaths of two men have reverberated across Pakistan, where the charge of insulting Islam has long been a sensitive issue. The entrance to the district police headquarters in [...]

By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Switzerland participated on Sept. 22 in the official celebration of the Feast Day of St. Maurice, the patron saint of Switzerland, in St Moritz, [...]

By NYT – For years, a U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves, but now the Iraqi government is ordering it to leave. Many sites remain unexamined. The hours have been long, the [...]

By Vivian Yee – NYT – It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.” Ten [...]

Hundreds were killed in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday (Aug 25) after suspected jihadists opened fire on them as they were digging trenches around a town to protect it from attacks, [...]