Egypt has declared a state of alert in the Sinai after extremist Islamist fighters set up a military base in the peninsula ahead of planned anti-government protests.
Egyptian politicians threatened military action as Ethiopia began diverting waters of the Blue Nile for a mammoth new hydro-electric project, abrogating a colonial-era pact.
An Egyptian court convicted 43 foreign and domestic non-governmental organization employees of engaging political activity without proper documentation.
Egyptian “Black Bloc” protesters continue to clash with police as 22 of their comrades have been detained in a “terrorism” investigation.
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the “extraordinary rendition” of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
Rival online campaigns are waged by the "Topless Jihad" and Muslim Women Against Femen. Is the Topless Jihad a defense of women's freedom, or imperialist propaganda?
Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Moammar Qaddafi, was arrested in Cairo by Libyan forces. The raid came on the second anniversary of the opening of NATO's Libya campaign.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights criticized Egypt’s draft law on demontrations that bars many of the same tactics used in the protests against Mubarak.
The Milan Court of Appeals convicted three US nationals for their roles in the CIA's 2003 "rendition" kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terrorism suspect Abu Omar.
An Egyptian court upheld the in absentia death sentences of seven Coptic Christians and a US preacher on charges stemming from the amateur anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims.
Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior aide to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, spews Holocaust-denying malarky—seemingly oblivious to how he legitimizes Zionist political logic.
Protesters calling for the fall of President Mohamed Morsi clashed with police clashed in Cairo on the eve of the the second anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
