Cairo (Egypt)

Seven Egyptian soldiers freed by captors in Sinai

2013-05-22 10:37:00

CAIRO — Seven Egyptian soldiers who had been abducted in the Sinai last week were set free by their captors early Wednesday amid conflicting reports as to how their release was secured. Many local news websites reported that tribe leaders in the...

Egypt's border with Gaza stays closed as protest continues

2013-05-19 18:10:00

CAIRO — Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip remained closed Sunday as the families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped in the northern Sinai Peninsula last week continued a sit-in. A video was briefly posted on YouTube...

Supporters of abducted soldiers keep Sinai-Gaza border shut

2013-05-19 10:10:00

CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...

The Benghazi talking points

2013-05-16 00:00:00

The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President Obama. The president, for his part, calls them a "sideshow." Finally, on Wednesday, the White House released more...

Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market

2013-05-15 16:27:00

CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy. But every day Mostafa Ismail, a financial broker with a hangman's demeanor, steps into the Egyptian stock exchange hoping for positive blips. They are rare in a nation where revolution...

Mubarak back in court; retrial postponed

2013-05-11 10:00:00

CAIRO — The retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak was postponed Saturday until June 8 after prosecutors told a Cairo criminal court that they intend to present new evidence of his responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during...

Egyptian youth movement leader arrested

2013-05-10 13:10:00

CAIRO -- Prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher was arrested on Friday as he sought to leave the Cairo international airport, members of his April 6 youth movement said. Maher, who helped lead the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak,...

American man stabbed outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo

2013-05-09 12:19:00

CAIRO — An American man was stabbed by an unidentified assailant outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Thursday, officials said. The reason for the attack was not immediately clear, though Egyptian officials said it did not appear to be politically...

Egyptian Cabinet shuffle strengthens Muslim Brotherhood

2013-05-07 09:43:00

CAIRO -- President Mohamed Morsi reshuffled his Cabinet on Tuesday, strengthening the Muslim Brotherhood’s hold on power and angering the opposition amid Egypt’s economic turmoil and political unrest. The naming of nine new ministers...

Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists

2013-04-12 16:53:00

CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed...

Hagel calls claims of Syrian chemical weapons use only 'suspicions'

2013-04-24 12:49:00

CAIRO — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday described Israeli claims of Syrian chemical weapons use as unproven “suspicions” and declined to set a timeline for a U.S. assessment of the accusations. Hagel has instructed defense...

Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within

2013-04-24 18:13:00

CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....

Egyptian youth activist Ahmed Maher, second from left, is accompanied by police after he was arrested at Cairo's international airport.

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Protests, strikes and sectarian clashes disrupt the Egyptian capital, Cairo, almost daily. The unrest, like this Friday demonstration against the Muslim Brotherhood in Tahrir Square, thwarts economic recovery and chases away investors.

2013-04-16 14:44:29

Cairo's main square, Tahrir Square, was the center of the massive political upheaval that finally toppled Mubarak in 2011.

2013-04-14 20:02:10