The $8.5 billion “New Suez Canal” was intended to help the country turn a page on the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the army takeover that brought Mr. Sisi to power.

Egyptian President Adel Fattah Al Sissi, said the armed forces would be in charge of the new Suez Canal project, which could bring in an estimated $5 billion in revenue per year, for security reasons.

In 1951, Egypt declared void the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 that had granted Britain a lease on the Suez base for a further 20 years. Tensions led to the declaration of an emergency period ...

Egyptian military aircraft patrolled the Suez Canal on Friday to ensure shipping was not disrupted during a day of rallies by supporters and foes of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, security ...

Egyptian troops fired shots in the air on Saturday to prevent hundreds of protesting employees of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority from storming into its office in Ismailia, witnesses said.

Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security and medical sources said.Two cars approached ...

When Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser grabbed the Suez Canal 6½ years ago, his bitter enemies in Europe predicted that the big ditch would soon be filled with silt and that untrained ...

In May, IS claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed 11 Egyptian security officers at a water-lifting station east of the Suez Canal in the Sinai region.

A couple of tankers, flagged by Singapore and the Cayman Islands, have collided in Egypt’s Suez Canal, a waterway vital to global trade. Authorities are working to remove the vessels.

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority announced that all commercial and military vessels had the right to pass through the waterway in an official response following the spread of a video online showing ...

Israel is to attack the Egyptian Army near the canal as a pretext for military intervention by Britain and France. ... President Gamal Abdel Nasser announces nationalisation of Suez Canal.

Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security and medical sources said.