LONDON -- The mother of a prominent Egyptian rights activist said Monday that she started a hunger strike to pressure authorities to release her son Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who rose to prominence with ...

Iranian state media claimed the country used its new ballistic Fattah missile in its attack on Israel on Tuesday night. There is some doubt, however. Defence and security analyst Professor Michael ...

Laila Soueif, the mother of British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abd el-Fattah, has launched a hunger strike to protest against his continued imprisonment and says she will not eat until he is released.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it launched a variety of missiles in the attack, including the Fattah "hypersonic missile for the first time," per the IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency.

These included Ghadr, Emad and the new Fattah missiles. Reports claim that Fattah can travel as fast as 15 times the speed of sound with a range of up to 1,400 kilometres, making it hypersonic.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and activist, should have been released on September 29 after serving an unjust five-year prison sentence. Instead, Egyptian authorities have kept ...

Iran launched at least 180 missiles at major Israeli cities in retaliation for recent attacks. Most missiles were intercepted by Israel, the US, and Jordan using advanced defence systems like ...

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Egyptian and international civil society groups on Thursday called for the release of the country's most prominent activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after his lawyer indicated that ...

LONDON — Rights groups and the family of convicted Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah on Thursday called on authorities to release him at the end of his five-year sentence next week.

FILE - Laila Soueif, mother of jailed pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in front of his picture at her home in Cairo, Egypt ...