Tag: Egypt

Did U.S. Demand Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Be Declared Winner in Egypt?

John Rosenthal · June 26, 2015 10:23 am

Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi raises his hands as he sits behind glass in a courtroom, in a converted lecture hall in the national police academy in an eastern Cairo suburb, Egypt, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar)

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Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to death

Tara Copp · May 16, 2015 4:02 pm

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seated, waves to his supporters as he attends with his two sons Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, the verdict in the corruption case dubbed by the Egyptian media as the "presidential palaces" affair concerning charges that Mubarak and his two sons embezzled millions of dollars' worth of state funds over the course of a decade in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak set free

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 4:56 pm

Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. On Tuesday April 21, 2015, an Egyptian criminal court sentenced Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the leader. The case stems from violence outside the presidential palace in December 2012. (AP Photo/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)

Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood leaders sentenced in Egypt

Kelly Cohen · April 21, 2015 11:02 am

Majority-Christian Ethiopia has angered Islamic groups due to its periodic armed conflicts with neighboring Somalia, which is mainly Muslim. (AP Photo)

Video purports to show ISIS executing Ethiopian Christians

Sean Higgins · April 19, 2015 8:42 pm

Â "U.S. forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort," a Pentagon spokeswoman said.Â

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Pentagon: No U.S. airstrikes in Yemen

Tara Copp · April 1, 2015 6:02 pm

An F-16 fighter squadron fly by during a demonstration on the Lake Ijsselmeer, Netherlands, on June 14, 2013. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

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White House OKs military sales to Egypt

Tara Copp · March 31, 2015 9:17 pm

A French military plane takes off from the flight deck of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle Tuesday, March 17, 2015, in the Persian Gulf. Aircraft aboard the French carrier are flying bombing and reconnaissance missions as part of a U.S.-led coalition targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Air Force vet arrested after trying to join Islamic State

Kelly Cohen · March 17, 2015 5:47 pm

Where Women Can’t Work

Geoffrey Norman · February 24, 2015 8:42 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a meeting with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Washington. The president spoke about issues including immigration and the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The last thing the Middle East needs is more democracy

David Harsanyi · February 20, 2015 10:46 pm

Ted Cruz appears on "The Kelly File" on Fox News Wednesday evening.

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Ted Cruz blasts ‘apologist’ Obama’s response to Islamic State atrocities

Justin Green · February 19, 2015 1:23 pm

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War against the Islamic State widens

Charles Hoskinson · February 18, 2015 10:00 am