Egypt's decision to cede control over the strategic islands has bolstered Saudi Arabia's role in the Israeli-American regional security framework This satellite image made available by the European ...

For more than half a century Tiran and Sanafir have been a point of dispute between Saudi Arabia and Egypt and could now play a major role in Israel-Saudi normalisation The Red Sea's Tiran (foreground ...

Alaa Mubarak, son of the late President Hosni Mubarak, continued to respond to MP Mostafa Bakry regarding his claims that Mubarak relinquished the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia, saying: ...

Forty-seven percent of Egyptians believe that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, 11 percent believe they are Saudi Arabian, while 42 percent say they don't know, according to a new poll ...

Ahmed Ibrahim, a young man working in the tourism sector in Sharm el-Sheikh, has sent a message to Al-Masry Al-Youm expressing disappointment at the handover of Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi ...

The debate about the identity of Red Sea islands Sanafir and Tiran continued for the fourth day following the Saturday decision by the Egyptian government to hand over the islands to Saudi Arabia.

Abdel Fatah al-Sisi signed deal to hand over Tiran and Sanafir, which Cairo has controlled since 1950 Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has been criticised at home and abroad for agreeing to ...

Egypt will return two disputed Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia after controlling it for over 60 years in a bid to “restore” the rights of Saudis, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said, a decision ...

Egypt’s top court has upheld a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Situated between the two countries, the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are largely unoccupied but they lie in a ...

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