Contributions
News
An Egyptian army officer and conscript were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with Bedouins that broke out when military police tried to remove them from state land in Suez Governorate, security sources said.
A Bedouin was also killed in a clash in...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fighting 10 months of pro-democracy protests, greeted thousands of rapturous supporters in a Damascus square on Wednesday, only a day after breaking a six-month public silence.
The crowd shouted "Shabiha...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad derided the efforts of Arab League monitors to halt violence against anti-government activists, and a senior UN official said Syria had stepped up its killing of protesters after the monitors arrived.
The president...
The Arab League condemned on Tuesday an attack this week by protesters on monitors in the Syrian port city of Latakia, and said the Syrian government had failed in its commitment to provide protection.
Eleven monitors, who are part of a mission to...
There was a time when Islamist lawyer Hazem Salah Abu Ismail's toughest challenge was brokering business deals and marriages. Now he is trying to bring his conflict resolution skills to the power struggle playing out in the new Egypt.
With his...
Far from Egypt's cities where Hosni Mubarak's old allies might fear to face the electorate, figures from the deposed leader's era have re-emerged to run for parliament in rural areas where sectarian rivalries can be played for political...
Gaza — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement said on Sunday it would have to re-evaluate its reconciliation pact with the Islamist Hamas group following the rejection of a Fatah visit to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip last week...
Egypt's government has withdrawn 2100 hectares of land from some of the country's leading businessmen because they failed to develop it, a minister who heads a committee investigating failures in industry said on Sunday.
The land was "...
The United States called on its ally Bahrain on Saturday to investigate the case of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist who the opposition says was beaten by security forces.
Opposition activists said several security officers threw Nabeel...
Arab foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss whether to ask the United Nations to help their mission in Syria, which has failed to end a 10-month crackdown on anti-government protests in which thousands have died.
The proposal by Qatar is to...
