Cairo

Negotiators were converging on Cairo on Sunday ahead of talks aimed at ending nearly two years of war in Gaza, with Israel’s leader expressing hope that the hostages still being held there would be released in...

Hamas representatives will go to Cairo on Saturday for talks on a possible ceasefire in Gaza, an official in the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Friday. “A Hamas delegation will go to Cairo tomorrow for...

A senior Hamas official said the Palestinian militant group was sending a delegation to Cairo on Saturday but that they would not attend Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital. “The delegation will meet with senior...

The White House stated on Friday that progress had been made in the Cairo talks toward a Gaza truce, and it urged Israel and Hamas to proceed. The White House verified that senior official Brett McGurk...

According to the country’s foreign ministry, Qatar will dispatch a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday in an attempt to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “The Qatari delegation will head to...

US media reported on Friday that CIA Director Bill Burns will visit Cairo, Egypt’s capital, this weekend to hold discussions on the release of hostages held in Gaza. According to The New York Times, Burns will...

On Thursday, the head of Hamas was scheduled to visit Cairo to discuss a possible cease-fire in Gaza, while Israel continued its offensive within the besieged Palestinian territory. After mediators convened in Paris, with international efforts...

A TASS journalist reports that the first batch of seventy Russians evacuated from the Gaza Strip arrived at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s operational headquarters in Cairo. Russian nationals in a column of three minibuses and...

British Airways will resume Cairo flights on Friday after services to the Egyptian city were suspended for a week because of security concerns. In a statement, the airline said it had “reviewed security arrangements” and would...

Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was buried Tuesday, as the UN-backed calls for an independent investigation into his death after he collapsed in a Cairo courtroom. The Islamist, who was overthrown in 2013 after...