Bitter street fighting leaves 51 dead, with hundreds of arrests, in biggest clashes since crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt
51 Killed in New Egypt Violence
Military and Morsi supporters clash
Egyptian Authorities ‘Beat Up’ Ohio State Grad in Cairo Prison
An Egyptian-American activist arrested in August claims in a letter smuggled from prison that Egyptian security personnel beat him, denied him medical attention and joked about killing detainees.
Dual citizen Mohamed Soltan, a …
Egypt Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, but the Islamists Are Not Finished
When President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February 2011, it kicked off an extended (and some would argue well-deserved) victory lap for the Muslim Brotherhood. After decades in the shadows — alternately tolerated …
Egypt’s Mubarak Blames U.S. for His Downfall
Surreptitiously recorded by his doctor, the former Egyptian ruler speaks frankly about America, Jews, Morsi and a range of other subjects.
Muslim Brotherhood’s Twitter Star Gets Arrested: Twitter Reacts
An English-speaking spokesman for Egypt’s embattled preeminent Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested Tuesday amid an ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood and its political affiliates.
Gehad Haddad, the son of an adviser to former President Mohamed Morsi, has been to some extent the face of the party to the …
Cairo Bomb Blast Can’t Dent Rise of Egypt’s Dictatorship-Era Security State
Essam Tarek woke on Thursday morning when a bomb blast, targeting the Egyptian Interior Minister’s convoy, shook his neighborhood, in Cairo’s suburban Nasr City area. “I went to the balcony and I saw cars full of fire and …
Egyptian Interior Minister Survives Bombing Attack
At least seven injured in the blast.
What Syria Means for Egypt: Pro-Assad Mood Marks Return of Arab Nationalism
As the Arab League convened in downtown Cairo on Sunday to discuss the crisis in Syria, several blocks away some 200 demonstrators assembled to denounce possible U.S. military action against Damascus.
Egypt Charges Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood Leaders With Inciting Murder
Egypt’s state prosecutor has referred deposed President Mohamed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders for trial on charges that include inciting the murder of protesters.
In an announcement that came on Sunday, the prosecutor’s office said that Morsi had been charged with stoking deadly clashes outside the presidential palace …
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador in Egypt Slams State-Run Newspaper
The U.S. envoy to Egypt is not pulling punches as she approaches the end of her two-year tenure.
Ambassador Anne Patterson, who was nominated earlier this month to be assistant secretary of state in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, sent a scathing open letter Wednesday to the country’s largest government-run …
Egyptian Military Crackdown Leads to Arrest of American Citizen
In its efforts to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s military-backed government has begun arresting foreigners — including at least one American — accused of supporting the opposition
Egypt’s Christians Caught in Cross Fire
Seen as supporting the military’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi, they’re finding churches burned and cars ablaze