Egypt president has a far bigger problem than a sick economy, tribal conflict and disenchanted Salafists. His relationship with the military is now under strain Ten months into Mohammad Mursi’s presidential term, Egypt remains divided, volatile and severely economically-challenged.
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The country will no longer accept strongman, top-down diktats or a monopoly on power by one group or another
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Dozens injured as Islamist protesters clash with unknown rivals near Egypt's High Court in Cairo; firearms used and at least 95 injured
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Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was transferred Thursday from a military hospital back to prison to await a retrial in May over his role in the deaths of protesters in 2011, a security source said.
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Another Egyptian Coptic Christian died Thursday of injuries sustained during clashes, raising the death toll from sectarian violence that began last weekend to eight, an Egyptian security official said
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Hundreds of people marched in the Egyptian capital on Tuesday to condemn sectarianism and call for unity between Muslims and Christians.In some of the worst sectarian violence for months on Friday, four Christians and one Muslim
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President Morsi orders probe after at least two people killed in clashes at Cairo headquarters of Coptic Christian pope. An open conflict between Morsi's government and the church could add a new and potentially explosive layer,
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In their attempt to hold on to power, the new governments in these countries have failed to realise that cracking down on criticism and manipulating the media will drive the people to the streets again
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Egyptian prosecutors summoned several opposition politicians and activists for questioning over allegations they incited violence against members of the president's Muslim Brotherhood.
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Report commissioned by president is the first time Egyptian police and senior officials have admitted killings in 2011.Egyptian policemen were to blame for the deaths of more than 800 protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising,
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Egypt has rejected an offer of a $750 million rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund, the finance minister said Tuesday, ruling out a fallback on emergency measures.
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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 million in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy."
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Egypt's election committee has scrapped a timetable under which voting for the lower house of parliament should have begun next month, state media reported on Thursday, following a court ruling that threw the entire polling process into
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Egypt's interior ministry told police in the Sinai Peninsula to raise a state of emergency after obtaining intelligence that "jihadists" might attack. On Saturday, as a court ruling about a soccer riot set off angry mobs demonstrators
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Secretary Kerry met with Egyptian President Morsi last week, announcing that the US will give Egypt $250 million in aid. While applauding continuing economic support to the suffering people of Egypt.Egypt is trying to meet conditions to
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An Egyptian court ordered authorities Tuesday to destroy tunnels between the country and Gaza. Egyptian security forces began sending sewage through the tunnels earlier this month as part of a new campaign to flood them, two
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For the first time since President Mohammed Morsi took office, Egypt will be sending a security delegation to Israel.
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A third day of protests and strikes brought the restive city of Port Said to a halt on Tuesday, as demonstrators demanded security officials be held accountable for the killings of over 40 residents in riots last month.
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Egypt's armed forces, for decades at the center of power, will avoid involvement in politics but could have a role if things became "complicated", the chief of staff said on Sunday.Several thousand hard-line Islamists rallied in Cairo
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Egypt has finished revising an economic reform plan needed for a $4.8 billion IMF loan, the prime minister said on Wednesday, but he did not say when the government might return to negotiations with the fund.
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Security forces sprayed protesters with water hoses and tear gas outside the presidential palace Monday as Egyptians marked the second anniversary of autocrat Hosni Mubarak's ouster with angry demonstrations against
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Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday, February 1, 2013 in a show of opposition to President Mohammed Morsi after a wave of deadly unrest swept country.
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n Egyptian appeals court on Sunday overturned Hosni Mubarak's life sentence and ordered a retrial of the ousted leader in the killing of hundreds of protesters, a ruling likely to further unsettle a nation still reeling from political turmoil and complicate the struggle of his Islamist successor to assert his authority.
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By putting himself above the law, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is putting America's sympathy - and dollars - on the line. A $4.8 billion IMF loan that could have eased the country's balance-of-payments crisis and calmed foreign investors is on hold
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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi downplayed on Saturday the country's teetering economy before a newly empowered senate, and insisted that a new constitution that fuelled protests guaranteed equality.In his address to the senate,
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Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have staged protests in Cairo against an Islamist-backed draft constitution that has divided Egypt but looks set to be approved in the second half of a referendum this weekend
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After Egypt voters approved a new constitution, The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) says Israel was unhappy with the preliminary constitutional referendum results
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Polling stations opened in Egypt on Saturday in the second and final round of a referendum on a new constitution. It was drafted by an assembly
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Egypt's top prosecutor retracted his resignation on Thursday, a decision that could cause a new uproar in the country after he was accused of pressuring a judge not to release protesters opposed to the president.
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Egypt‘s President Mohamed Morsi obtained a 57 percent “yes” vote for the constitution in initial voting on Saturday but...
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