Post-coup unrest in Egypt

An "Islamist" protester was killed in clashes with police in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Jan. 25, officials said, as the country marked the fraught anniversary of its 2011 popular uprising.
      
Police officials said the protester shot at police during an Islamist demonstration. Police returned fire and killed him, they said.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi acknowledged Tuesday that police committed rights abuses after the overthrow of his Islamist predecessor, but said they were expected given the "exceptional" security threats faced by Egypt.
      

The United States has delivered 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt in recent weeks after lifting part of a freeze on aid to the north African nation, a U.S. official said Dec. 20.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had been promising Cairo's new leadership that the aircraft - aimed to join counter-terrorism operations in the Sinai peninsula - would be delivered soon.

Egypt has imposed restrictions on male citizens traveling to Turkey and war-torn Libya to stop them joining jihadist organizations like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a security official said Dec. 10.

Egyptian police on Nov. 20 arrested Mohamed Ali Bishr, one of the few Muslim Brotherhood leaders to escape jail after last year's overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, in the latest sign of a crackdown on political dissent.

Bishr, a veteran politician who served as a cabinet minister under Mursi, was accused of calling for mass protests on Nov. 28, state media said.

An Egyptian court ordered prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah back to jail Monday after he was previously freed on bail during a trial for taking part in an illegal protest, a relative said.