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Banners showing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hang in Tahrir Square, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 25, 2018, 10:12 pm
Portraits of Egypt’s leader fill iconic Cairo square
Site of 2011 mass anti-government protests now plastered with huge pictures of el-Sissi, as general-turned-president heads to reelection in controversial vote
By Brian Rohan
People chat and smoke under an election campaign banner for Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that reads, "For the sake of the nation's security," in Cairo, Egypt, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 25, 2018, 10:12 pm
In Egypt’s election, turnout provides the only suspense
With all viable challengers to Sissi arrested or pressured to withdraw, Monday's vote will be least competitive since 2011 uprising raised hopes of democratic change
By Hamza Hendawi
A billboard supporting Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the presidential election scheduled for March hangs in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on January 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 3, 2018, 9:18 am
Media under official scrutiny ahead of Egypt poll
President Sissi warns against 'defamation' of security forces, a day after his prosecution said it would take legal action against 'false news'
By AFP
US Vice President Mike Pence shakes hands with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. (Khaled Desouki/Pool Photo via AP)
February 2, 2018, 3:14 pm
Egypt welcomes US designation of 2 groups as ‘terrorist’
Foreign ministry calls move against Hasm movement and Liwaa el-Thawra 'a display of solidarity with Egypt against terrorism'
By AP and TOI staff
Tariq Ramadan, pictured at a 2016 conference in Bordeaux. (AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH)
January 31, 2018, 8:22 pm
Leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan arrested in Paris amid rape claims
Academic, who took leave of absence from Oxford after allegations lodged against him, is grandson of founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
By Agencies
Egyptian emergency services carry a wounded victim at the site of a bomb attack next to a police checkpoint in the western Talibiya district of the capital Cairo on December 9, 2016. (Stringer/AFP)
November 23, 2017, 7:54 pm
Egyptian police shoot dead three suspected terrorists, arrest nine
Jihadists allegedly belong to group that assassinated army general last year, claimed attacks in Cairo
By AFP
Illustrative image of Egyptian riot police standing guard behind barbed wire while protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans, not pictured, during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, December 4 (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
November 22, 2017, 4:33 pm
Egypt detains 29 on charges they spied for Turkey
Suspected members of Muslim Brotherhood allegedly eavesdropped on phone calls, using info to incite against government
By AP
Egyptians pray before the coffin of Police Cpt. Ahmed Fayez during his funeral inside a mosque in the capital Cairo's western suburb of Sixth of October, on October 21, 2017. (Fayed El-Geziry/AFP)
October 21, 2017, 11:43 pm
Egypt says 16 policemen killed in shootout with Islamists
Official death toll downgraded from 35; convoy traveling outside Cairo was hit by rocket fire, explosive devices on Friday night
By Mohamed el-Shahed
The White Desert between Farafra and Bahariya in western Egypt. (Nomo/Michael Hoefner/Wikimedia Creative Commons)
October 21, 2017, 11:46 am
At least 54 Egyptian police killed in Islamist ambush
Convoy near the Bahariya oasis in the Western Desert reportedly hit by rocket fire, explosive devices
By Agencies
Egypt's former Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef during his trial in Cairo, February 28, 2015 (AFP/Mohamed el-Shahed, File)
September 23, 2017, 2:26 am
Mohammed Akef, who transformed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, dies at 89
Leader of Islamist movement called Israel 'a cancer to root out' and stated that the Holocaust was a 'myth'
By AFP
Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi gestures from behind the defendant's bars during his trial at the police academy in Cairo on May 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
September 16, 2017, 5:18 pm
Egyptian court upholds life sentence against Morsi
While maintaining punishment for heading illegal group, court throws out lesser charge against ex-Muslim Brotherhood president
By AFP
Supporters of Zaki Bani Irsheid, a top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, hold photos of him, outside the state security court in Amman, Jordan, February 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
August 8, 2017, 2:47 pm
Jordan’s retrograde leadership must go
The Hashemites are radicalizing their citizens and standing in the way of peace
By Samer Libdeh
File: Egyptian policemen stand guard at the site of a June 29, 2015 bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, who oversaw cases against thousands of Islamists. (AP/Eman Helal, File)
July 22, 2017, 4:02 pm
Egypt sentences 28 to death over prosecutor killing
Hisham Barakat was slain in 2015 car bombing, which was blamed on Muslim Brotherhood
By AFP
Egyptian army soldiers patrol the Cairo-Ismailia desert road in Egypt, August 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
July 19, 2017, 12:50 am
Egypt police trap and kill 3 top ‘terrorist group’ members
Interior ministry says trio had ties to IS and Muslim Brotherhood, carried out lethal attacks against government targets
By AFP
Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks during a luncheon hosted by the Arab Center of Washington, DC on June 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
July 2, 2017, 1:25 am
Qatar rejects Arab states’ ultimatum ahead of deadline
Doha refuses to comply with list of 13 demands, including severing ties with Iran, Muslim Brotherhood and shuttering Al-Jazeera
By Nicole Winfield
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