
Egypt's president praises police despite criticism
Egypt's president praised the country's policemen on Friday despite public criticism over their violent response to anti-government demonstrations, ...

IMF to visit Egypt as nation seeks economic help
The International Monetary Fund is sending a senior official to Cairo this weekend to discuss issues that have delayed a $4.8 billion loan seen as a ...
US: Israel must recognize changed Mideast dynamics
The White House says Israel's security depends in part on its ability to court Arab public opinion, as the strongman leaders it long depended on give ...
Egypt: 38 soccer fans charged with violence
Egyptian prosecutors have charged 38 members of a die-hard soccer fan club with belonging to an illegal group and other offenses, one of the first ...
Report blames Hamas for Egypt soldier killings
A report by a state-owned Egyptian weekly magazine on Thursday accused the Palestinian militant movement Hamas of carrying out one of the bloodiest ...
Egypt's Brotherhood blasts UN women's document
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticized an anticipated U.N. document on combatting violence against women, saying on Wednesday that it was ...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Police blamed in Egypt revolt deaths
The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings ...
Egypt: Morsi's government appeals vote suspension
A government legal agency representing Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi appealed on Wednesday the court-ordered suspension of a controversial ...

Egypt considers ban on sale of duty-free alcohol
Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry is considering a ban on the sale of alcohol in airport duty-free stores after it received complaints that it goes ...

New storm in Egypt over citizen arrests
An official statement encouraging Egyptian civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police has set off a new political storm in a country ...

Egypt's fuel crisis adds to its economic woes
At 5:00 am, Egyptian truck driver Allam Mahmoud hurried to a Cairo gas station and joined an already long, snaking line. He says he hopes that by the ...

Egypt's interior minister won't allow 'militias'
Egypt's interior minister on Sunday declared he would not allow vigilantes or militias to take over police duties, while admitting his police force ...

Egyptian Soccer fans rampage over court verdicts
Egyptian soccer fans rampaged through the heart of Cairo on Saturday, furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences ...

Police strikes in Egypt accelerate, adding turmoil
After months of battling with angry young protesters, many in Egypt's police forces say they have had enough. Strikes and protests spread around the ...

Egypt's police protest against Muslim Brotherhood
Thousands of low-ranking policemen on strike across Egypt on Thursday refused orders to work and protested what they claim is the politicization of ...

A diplomatic natural, Kerry hits ground running
With the smile of a seasoned politician, a flair for languages and a vast repertoire of personal anecdotes, Secretary of State John Kerry schmoozed ...

Egyptian steel tycoon jailed for profiteering
An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted a Hosni Mubarak-era steel magnate of profiteering and squandering public funds, and handed him a 37-year ...

Egypt's leader mulls army takeover of restive city
A security agency headquarters was set on fire as protesters battled police for a third straight day in Port Said on Tuesday, and Egypt's Islamist ...

Unrest in Egyptian city draws in military
Clashes between protesters and the police in in the restive Egyptian city of Port Said that entered their second day Monday have dragged in the ...

Biden on Iran threat: Obama is not bluffing
Seeking to reassure anxious Israelis and their American supporters, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Monday that the United States won't back down from ...

Egypt's army intervenes in Port Said clashes
The military intervened in clashes between thousands of protesters and police in a restive Egyptian canal city on Sunday, the latest in a cycle of ...

Kerry says US releasing millions in aid to Egypt
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 ...

Kerry: Divided Egypt needs political compromise
Egypt's bickering government and opposition need to overcome their differences to create "a sense of political and economic viability" if the country ...

Violent protests outside Cairo as protests spread
Violent protests erupted outside Egypt's capital on Saturday as activists accused police of using excessive force in two cities and running over ...

With Kerry on the way, Egypt liberals angry at US
As John Kerry heads to Egypt on Saturday for his first visit as secretary of state, he faces a barrage of accusations from liberal and secular ...