A string of bombings hit police around Cairo on Friday.
CAIRO (AP) — A string of bombings hit police around Cairo on Friday, including a car blast that ripped through the city's main police headquarters and wrecked a nearby museum of Islamic artifacts. Five people were killed in the most significant attack yet in the Egyptian capital at a time of mounting confrontation between Islamists and the
Christians and Muslims living in Maaloula were immune from war until September when opposition fighters, including an al-Qaida affiliate, besieged the town.
Before the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, the 360-kilometer highway linking the capital of Damascus with Syria’s largest city of Aleppo to the north, was the most widely traveled road in all Syria. It was also the corridor linking visitors with the country’s most treasured archeological sites and cultural landmarks. Upon leaving Damascus,
‘It’s going to get more revolutionary,’ says Brotherhood supporter.
An Egyptian court officially banned the Muslim Brotherhood from all operations across the country including a freeze on all of the organization's assets and a ban on affiliated groups. "The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it participates in and any
Welcome to Cairo in 2013, where the people are now denouncing the military rule of General al-Sisi.
CAIRO — On a backstreet on the east side of this sprawling city, a ragged crowd chanted in unison: "The people demand the fall of the regime." The small group shouted vociferously, united by a desire to oust a repressive ruler and hasten Egypt's progress to democracy. The “people” have been taking this demand to the streets a lot here in the
“The curfew is not for security reasons,” one Egyptian said. “It is purely to make people feel that the army is in charge.”
CAIRO — In every corner of the Egyptian capital, a bustling city of 18 million that rarely sleeps, people are locked up in their homes at night under a military-imposed curfew that has driven people up the walls, sometimes literally. To kill time, one said he spent the night counting flowers on his wallpaper — a staggering 865. Another tested
New and sometimes unexpected friendships are forming as the entire region adjusts to the violence unfolding in Cairo.
Observers tuning-in to the sectarian narrative in today’s Middle East may find it jarring to see realignments by some of the region’s players as violent crisis engulfs Egypt. For those who have watched the oftentimes dissonant regional politics unfold over the years, such repositioning will seem less surprising. Sectarianism came to dominate and
