Arab Spring

How life (and death) change Egyptian soccer and its American coach

2013-05-11 13:25:00

Bob Bradley wasn't looking for an adventure as much as he was looking for a job after being fired as coach of the U.S. soccer team two years ago. But in Egypt he found both. When Bradley arrived in the fall of 2011 to take over Egypt's national soccer...

USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders

2013-05-06 20:00:00

WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...

Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah

2013-05-05 21:03:00

JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...

Israel's likely targets in Syria: Iran and Hezbollah

2013-05-05 10:05:00

JERUSALEM – With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab Spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. But as some...

The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial

2013-05-06 05:00:00

D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...

'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars

2013-05-03 08:00:00

In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...

Elie Wiesel, history's witness

2013-04-23 16:43:00

It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...

Critically ill Palestinian released from Israeli jail

2013-04-18 12:26:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank–-Two weeks after a Palestinian prisoner died of cancer in an Israeli jail, provoking violent protests in the West Bank, Israel released a critically ill Palestinian prisoner who had served 11 years of a 14-year-sentence....

Margaret Thatcher funeral: Scenes of solemnity and protest [Video]

2013-04-17 11:08:00

As former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest Wednesday, videos from Britain provide a glimpse of how she was remembered -- both by those who loved and loathed her. The London ceremony was akin to the 1997 rites for Princess Diana. Above,...

'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale

2013-04-17 02:00:00

Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...

Thatcher critics in Britain counter her official funeral with parties

2013-04-17 09:52:00

As Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest in London, scattered protests and parties cheering her death were reported around Britain, a sign of the persistent divisions over her legacy. "I ignore people who say it's in bad taste,” Durham Miners Assn....

Intrigue swirls as Iran prepares to choose next president

2013-04-10 15:52:00

TEHRAN — The reform movement that took to the streets to protest alleged vote-rigging in Iran's last presidential election has been crushed. The supreme leader has made it clear that such behavior will not be tolerated this time. But that doesn'...

At his last public appearance in a Cairo courtroom on April 13, deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared less frail and more contemptuous of the allegations that he was complicit in the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators during the "Arab Spring" uprising that ended his 30-year reign.

2013-05-02 10:07:54

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