Tag: Egypt

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 6, 2014 file image made from video broadcast on Egypt's State Television, Egypt's retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during an interview in a nationally televised broadcast in Cairo, Egypt. El-Sissi, the former military chief who removed Egypt's elected Islamist president and is poised to assume the post in elections this month, said Sunday, May 11, that he has plans to make improvements in people's living conditions within two years but will step down if they rise up against him. (AP Photo/Egypt's State Television, File)

Egypt’s el-Sissi makes rare plea to youth

SARAH EL DEEB · May 12, 2014 8:32 pm

Egyptians take cover under a ramp as others walk on a street in the rain in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Official: New US ambassador headed to Egypt

Lara Jakes · May 8, 2014 10:02 pm

Egypt’s el-Sissi tells media not to push freedoms

Maggie Michael · May 8, 2014 8:19 pm

Egypt government restores daylight saving time

Washington Examiner · May 7, 2014 6:52 pm

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the April 15, 2014, mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. (AP Photo/File)

Beltway Confidential

Muslim leaders criticize Boko Haram abduction of Nigerian school girls

Ashe Schow · May 7, 2014 4:00 am

El-Sissi pushes Egyptians to line up behind him

Lee Keathsarah, El Deeb · May 6, 2014 10:13 pm

Israeli gas field may supply facility in Egypt

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2014 6:32 pm

Egyptian First Deputy Prime Minister Vice and Minister of Defense, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stands in the Defense Ministry in Cairo. (Michael Kappeler/AP Images)

Beltway Confidential

Egypt’s leader-in-waiting vows to finish off Muslim Brotherhood

Charles Hoskinson · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Canadian-Egyptian acting Al-Jazeera bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy talks to the judge in the Police Academy courthouse along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Fahmy made a rare appeal to the judge from outside of the defendants' cage, at the end of which the judge wished him a "happy" World Press Freedom Day. In his brief plea Saturday, Fahmy stood directly before the judge's bench. Fahmy said journalists have to speak to all sides to do their jobs including both the government and the Muslim Brotherhood, among others. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Al-Jazeera reporter held in Egypt appeals to judge

Laura Dean · May 3, 2014 3:05 pm

Egyptian investigators collect debris found at the site of a bomb blast that targeted a traffic police post in Cairo's Heliopolis suburb, Egypt, Friday, May 2, 2014. A bomb blast near a court building in Cairo killed at least one policeman and wounded a few others on Friday, shortly after two suicide bombers struck in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula in near-simultaneous attacks that killed at least one soldier and wounded several people. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Attacks in Egypt kill 5 ahead of presidential vote

Maggie Michael · May 2, 2014 9:27 pm

Egypt in energy crisis as elections approach

Maggie Hyde · May 2, 2014 6:47 am

Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie sits inside a defendants cage during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar) EGYPT OUT

Egypt’s judges rebuff criticism of death sentences

Laura Dean · April 30, 2014 11:28 pm