Egypt's opposing parties argue over judiciary
Egypt's main opposition group and judges vowed Monday to step up their fight against plans by the Islamist-dominated legislature to debate a bill ...

Egypt justice minister submits resignation
Egypt's justice minister submitted his resignation Sunday, a Cabinet spokesman said, in a move that signaled strong disapproval of the president's ...

Egypt's Morsi to reshuffle Cabinet amid turmoil
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi defended his handling of some of the nation's most pressing problems in a nearly two-hour television interview on ...
Group accuses Egypt's Morsi of ignoring atrocities
Some members of a high-level commission that issued a report detailing security abuses and atrocities during and after Egypt's 2011 uprising accused ...

Pro- and anti-Islamist protesters clash in Egypt
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president battled in the streets near Tahrir Square on Friday as an Islamist rally demanding a purge of ...

Egyptian Jewish leader buried in rundown cemetery
The late leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community was buried Thursday in one the oldest cemeteries in Egypt, the once-sprawling burial ...
Egypt's opposition split over election boycott
A split erupted Thursday in Egypt's main liberal opposition bloc, the National Salvation Front, over whether to go ahead with a boycott of ...

Even in desert retreat, monks feel Egypt's turmoil
In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the ...

Egypt court sets May 11 for Mubarak retrial
The Cairo appellate court on Wednesday set May 11 for the resumption of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's retrial in the deaths of hundreds ...
Correction: Egypt-Economy story
In an April 16 story about Egypt's economy and request for an IMF loan, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an economic expert.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemns Boston blasts
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemned the Boston Marathon bombings Tuesday, but a senior member of the group painted them as part of a conspiracy aimed ...

Egypt's Mubarak still jailed despite release order
Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak will remain in custody on new corruption charges, despite a court order to release him before his retrial over ...

Brotherhood members face torture charge in Egypt
Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests in November following ...

Mubarak appears in Egyptian court for retrial
The judge in Hosni Mubarak's retrial recused himself at the start of the first session on Saturday, citing a conflict of interest as the former ...

Egypt leader and military chief put tension aside
Egypt's Islamist president made a strong show of unity with the military, standing by the country's top general and warning in a statement broadcast ...

Egypt's legislature approves election law
Egypt's Islamist-dominated legislature approved a revised version of the law organizing the country's parliamentary elections on Thursday, after a ...

Analysis: Hamas wants bigger regional role
Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal has set an ambitious agenda for his new term, seeking to transform his Islamic militant movement that rules Gaza into a ...
Qatar pledges additional $3B aid to Egypt
Qatar's prime minister says the Gulf nation will give Egypt another $3 billion to bolster its ailing economy and help rebuild key industries.

Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president
Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main ...
Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon
A Muslim cleric who became known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President ...
Dutch reporter victim of citizen arrest in Egypt
A Dutch journalist working in Egypt said she was released Tuesday from nearly 12 hours in police custody after an Egyptian vigilante arrested her and ...

After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi
After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday ...

Egypt: Clashes outside Copt cathedral leave 1 dead
Christians angered by the killing of four Christians in weekend sectarian violence clashed Sunday with a mob throwing rocks and firebombs, killing one ...

Egypt prosecutor orders new Mubarak investigation
Egypt's state news agency says the country's top prosecutor has ordered a new investigation into corruption allegations against ousted President Hosni ...

Egyptian court drops lawsuit to ban comedy show
A Cairo court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Islamist lawyer demanding that a popular Egyptian satirist's TV show be banned for allegedly ...