Egypt

A Salafi member of Egypt’s lower legislative house, the People’s Assembly, is insisting that parliamentary sessions pause during prayer times.…

Ousted President Hosni Mubarak's former officials received hostile welcomes from inmates at their new prisons within the Tora compound after…

The Arab League has asked the monitors dispatched to Damascus to leave the country, Syrian newspaper Al-Watan said Wednesday. The…

With Wednesday’s headlines reading more like a series of ominous and unrelated cliffhangers, Al-Shorouk vies for attention by placing a…

The People’s Assembly on Tuesday urged the government to denounce violence in Syria and freeze relations with the country's parliament…

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb and Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa have both announced their rejection of calls for civil disobedience…

Israel's main labor union declared a strike on Wednesday that shut down airports, ports, banks and the stock market after…

Authorities have tentatively scheduled the presidential election for the first week of June, independent newspaper Al-Shorouk reported Wednesday.

Israeli planning authorities on Tuesday approved construction of a detention center for illegal immigrants, at a projected cost of 250…

A trio of leading US senators Tuesday warned Egypt that the risk of a “disastrous” rupture in ties had “rarely…