Aya Batrawy

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FILE - In this Monday, July 16, 2012 file photo, Rev. Michel Louis, 61, left, and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse, second right, rest after their release at a police station after being held hostage by Bedouins in El Arish, in the northern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In Egypt's restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen to help keep security in the peninsula, where the state is struggling to rein in rampant lawlessness and uproot Islamic militants who have attacked Egyptian troops and neighboring Israel. But the proposal, which the government says it is considering, raises fears that the Bedouin could become a new militia, only adding to the turmoil in the peninsula. (AP Photo, File)

Egypt mulls arming Sinai Bedouin security force

Aya Batrawy · October 8, 2012 4:00 am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, waves to the crowd gathered in a stadium upon his arrival for a speech on the 6th of October national holiday marking the 1973 war with Israel, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt’s president defends record of first 100 days

Aya Batrawy · October 6, 2012 4:00 am

Egypt: 14 get death sentences for Sinai attacks

Aya Batrawy · September 24, 2012 3:58 pm

In this Friday Sept. 14, 2012 photo, family members of Ismail Rashad, 36, wait for his body to be released outside the door to the Zenhoum morgue in Cairo, Egypt. His family and doctors at a Cairo hospital said Rashad died yesterday from wounds from rubber bullets in clashes Friday that brought the first Egyptian to be killed in Tahrir Square protests since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was elected and took office this summer. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)

Al-Qaida calls for more attacks on embassies

Lee Keath, Aya Batrawy · September 15, 2012 4:00 am

Egypt football fans attack federation headquarters

Aya Batrawy · September 5, 2012 8:07 pm

Former Islamist Egyptian lawmaker’s sons detained

Aya Batrawy · August 19, 2012 9:35 pm

14 get death row in Egypt for Sinai police attacks

Aya Batrawy · August 14, 2012 4:29 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012 file photograph, relatives of an Egyptian soldier mourn during the funeral of one of 16 soldiers killed in an attack over the weekend by suspected militants in Sinai in Cairo, Egypt. After decades of neglect and with the collapse of government authority the past 18 months, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has become fertile ground for Islamic extremists. Militant groups have taken root, carrying out attacks against neighboring Israel and now turning their guns against Egypt's military as they vow to set up an Islamic state. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

In Egypt’s chaotic Sinai, militants grow stronger

Aya Batrawy · August 8, 2012 4:00 am

Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt, Monday Aug. 6, 2012. Egypt deployed helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula on Monday to hunt for the militants who killed at least 16 soldiers Sunday when the troops at a checkpoint were having the traditional meal at the end of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egypt hunts Sinai militants after soldiers killed

Aya Batrawy, Amy Teibel · August 6, 2012 4:00 am

Egypt president: 1952 coup fell short on democracy

Aya Batrawy · July 22, 2012 10:20 pm

Militiamen attack Libya election commission

Aya Batrawy · July 1, 2012 9:04 pm

Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq addresses his supporters during an election rally in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament on Thursday and ruled that Mubarak's former prime minister can stand in the presidential runoff this weekend _ derailing Egypt's transition to democracy and setting the stage for the military and remnants of the old regime to stay in power. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Egypt’s Brotherhood pins hopes on presidency

Aya Batrawy · June 15, 2012 7:52 pm