CAIRO — Egyptian security forces stormed a Cairo mosque Saturday after a heavy exchange of gunfire with armed men shooting down from a minaret, rounding up hundreds of supporters of the country’s ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. At least 800 people have been killed in Egypt since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi last month and the subsequent protests launched by ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has inaugurated a newly restored Ottoman mosque, built by the 16th century governor Suleyman Pasha al-Khadim, that lies within the citadel that has dominated Cairo's skyline ...

CAIRO (CNN) — Egyptian forces cleared a Cairo mosque that had become the epicenter of Saturday’s confrontations between protesters and the military, state media reported.Hundreds of supporters of ...

STORY: The renovation project for the historic mosque began in 2017 with a budget of around $2.8 million (85 million Egyptian pounds). The renovation, done in collaboration between Egypt’s antiquities ...

On Thursday, more than 200 bodies of those killed in a crackdown on protesters by the Egyptian military were being prepared for burial at the... Scene From A Cairo Mosque Turned Morgue After the ...

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces on Saturday overran a Cairo mosque in which hundreds of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi had barricaded themselves for nearly 24 hours after a day of gun ...