Iran and Egypt have underlined the need for the immediate cessation of appalling Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Egypt's President Sisi has warned of “serious changes” across the West Asia region amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.

A senior Egyptian official says Cairo and Tehran are expected to fully restore diplomatic ties and exchange respective ambassadors in the near future after more than four decades of estrangement.

President Raeisi congratulates his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on election victory.

The meeting was the most high-profile encounter between Iranian and Saudi Arabian officials.

Egypt’s foreign minister is in Damascus in the first such high-level visit since the start of the foreign-backed militancy in Syria in 2011.

At least 41 killed have been killed and 45 others injured after a fire broke out in a Coptic Christian church in the Egyptian city of Giza, near the capital Cairo.