CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The night breeze blew foul wafts from a nearby canal black with garbage and pollution. The streets jammed with trucks and motorized rickshaws were so shattered that they hardly seemed paved at all.
It was to Cairo's slum of (...)
CAIRO: Deadly Muslim-Christian riots that left 12 dead and a Cairo church a burned-out husk have magnified worries in Egypt over Islamic ultraconservatives who have grown more assertive since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's military (...)
CAIRO: For years, Osama bin Laden's charisma kept Al-Qaeda's ranks filled with zealous recruits.
But it was the strategic thinking and the organizational skills of his Egyptian right hand man that kept the terror network together after the United (...)
CAIRO: The United States has been pushing its powerhouse ally Saudi Arabia to help stabilize Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has struggled to overcome the kingdom's deep mistrust of Pakistan's president and doubts over US strategy for reining in (...)
CAIRO: The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition movement, accused the regime of monopolizing power through vote rigging and vowed to rally Egyptians to prevent fraud in upcoming parliamentary elections.
The fundamentalist (...)
CAIRO: Arabs on Wednesday saw little hope for peace from whatever government emerges from Israel s inconclusive elections, and they expressed fears over the rising power of Israel s far right.
With the prospect of a hard-line Israeli government, (...)
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel in a new message Wednesday, seeking to harness anger over the Gaza offensive, and vowed to open new fronts against the US.
The White House dismissed the call, (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s foreign minister said Thursday that Hamas must ensure rocket fire stops in any truce deal to halt Israel s assault on the Gaza Strip, criticizing the Palestinian militants for giving Israel an excuse to launch the (...)
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda s No. 2 slurred Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message Wednesday intended to dent the president-elect s popularity among Arabs and Muslims and claim he will (...)
CAIRO: Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahri's "on-line interview before a recent deadline.
Among them: Why hasn't Al-Qaeda attacked the US again, why isn't it attacking the Israelis and when will (...)