In 1956, the fight for a canal became a global crisis. The Suez standoff exposed the cracks in empire—and brought the Cold ...

A canal, a nationalist, and two fading empires—when Nasser seized the Suez, the world teetered on the edge of war.

The IMEC corridor promises faster and cheaper East–West trade, and Middle Eastern ports are positioning themselves as the ...

The CEO of Egypt's third-largest bank tells Al-Monitor why he is hopeful about the country's economic recovery.

THE thin hundred-mile ribbon of water connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, now in the limelight as an Italian military road to Ethiopia, has had a confusing history. It was dreamed of for ...

COLUMN. The wars waged by the Israeli army always last for years when external intervention, usually from the United States, ...

This made England again and again go to war with Persia right in the face of solemn treaties, ... NAPOLEON III. wishes to build the Suez Canal for the same purpose.

Citing data from global analysis firm Kepler, the SCA added that 50 percent of the European Union's fuel shipments passed through the canal in March, coinciding with this relative calm. This ...

Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four ...