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 (...)