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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi (C) attends a meeting with Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R), Vice President Mahmoud Mekky and members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces at the presidential palace in Cairo August 16,...
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Canadian Free Press
| 10 months ago
If regional events weren't moving so quickly, the question of who lost Egypt would probably have had its moment in the spotlight in Washington...In 1949, the Communist takeover of China rattled the US foreign policy establishment to its core. China's...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
An Egyptian human rights group wants the former head of the military council and other officials tried for failing to perform their duties. In a report on human rights, the Appropriate Communications Techniques for Development group said Hussein...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
For some, Mr. Morsi is consolidating power and pushing back against a military that attempted to box him in before his election. For others, these moves reveal the new president's real sympathies and they align with those of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
Morsi Spokesman Yasser Ali related that various political sources in Egypt supported Morsi's decision to sack Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi and CoS Sami Annan.
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
August 16, 2012 As a student at the National War College in Washington, the chief of staff of Egypt 's armed forces argued in a paper that the American military presence in the Middle East and its one-sided support of Israel were fueling hatred...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Aijaz Zaka Syed Friday 17 August 2012 Most newspapers in India where I am right now ignored the developments in Egypt choosing to bury them inside. Even Urdu dailies that usually show greater interest in the goings on in the Middle East went with the...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 10 months ago
The underground tunnels between Gaza and Egypt have also been sealed. People here say the measure amounts to collective punishment as 1000 of passengers including chronically ill patients. In recent days, Hamas officials in Gaza have made plea and...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Kurtzer said the general's background does not appear to have worried the United States, which provides Egypt with $1.3 billion in annual military aid. "I understand from contacts in Washington that [Sissi] has a good reputation among our military,"...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
Regardless of who carried out that attack, it constituted a challenge to -- and a qualitative violation of -- Egyptian sovereignty, perhaps the first on such a scale since the 1970s. Sadly, the incident demonstrated that the Egyptian foreign policy...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
Medical examiners found 30 bullets in the head of one of the victims, and the others were in a roughly similar state. I cannot imagine what was going on the minds of the murderers as they pulled the trigger, or in the minds of their prey, who must...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
On Monday, the state security prosecutor referred Tawfiq Okasha, head of Faraeen TV channel, and Islam Afifi, the editor-in-chief of Al-Dostour newspaper, to the Cairo Criminal Court on charges that include insulting the president. Several complaints...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
Mohamed Abu Hamed, former parliamentary member, and Tawfiq Okasha, chairman of the recently banned Faraeen TV station, will lead the protesters who stressed the peaceful nature of their demonstration. "24 August will be a new revolution against an...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
On Sunday, President Mohamed Mursi dismissed all high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces, including the powerful military leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who was defence minister and general commander for more than 15 years. Tantawi had also...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
What will he do with them, asks Gamal Essam El-Din Egypt's civilian president, Mohamed Mursi, moved on more than one front this week to consolidate his powers...Tantawi and Anan are being retained as presidential advisers. On Tuesday Tantawi was...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
A key figure in the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the recent decisions by the president eradicated the presence of the so-called "deep state" in Egypt. Former defence minister...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
Mursi After six weeks in office Egypt's first civilian president has sidelined the military, forcing it to leave the political arena it controlled for six decades. June -- the final day of the presidential election runoffs -- clipping the future...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
Mursi, also the country's first ever civilian president, comes from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and took power on 30 June following a narrow electoral victory against one of the former aides of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. During his first...
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Weekly Arham
| 10 months ago
For the first time since the 1952 coup the army has been stripped of any political role. And courtesy of a new Constitutional Declaration in which Mursi granted himself all the powers listed in Article 56 of the 30 March 2011 Constitutional...
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The Economist
| 10 months ago
S newly elected president, Muhammad Morsi, came to office with a reputation as a plodding technocrat...That collection of senior generals, having controlled the country for decades, had imposed itself as a de facto fourth branch of government and was...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 10 months ago
No Palestinians involved in Sinai attack Source 16/08/2012 Asharq Al-Awsat Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat Asharq Al-Awsat has learned that security agencies operating in the Gaza Strip are currently in the process of providing their Egyptian counterparts with...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
However, the former president had cause to laugh this week, Heder Hadashot reports, quoting Al-Wafd. Mubarak was reportedly highly amused when his son Gamal visited him and told him that Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsi, had fired top military...
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Open Democracy
| 10 months ago
In the stand-off between the two main political actors, control over the security sector will be a major issue at stake. Both groups are convinced that they will only be able to maintain their domination over the political scene provided that they...
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Africa Headlines
| 10 months ago
Before using legislative power, Mursi will consult political forces, Erian posted on Twitter on Wednesday. The former member of the dissolved parliament denounced people's rejection to Mursi's decision to grant himself the power of legislation. He...
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Africa Headlines
| 10 months ago
Demonstrators taking part in the August 24 protest against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Mursi are "khawarej" (infidels), Sheikh Hashem Islam, member of al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, has said. He legitimized killing these protesters and...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 10 months ago
An Islamist militant group operating in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula bordering with Israel warned the Egyptian army on Wednesday that an ongoing military crackdown on jihadists in the area will force it to fight back. The Egyptian army has been hunting...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Egypt's new defense minister has pledged his "unwavering commitment" to the American-Egyptian military alliance, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said...Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also "stressed that he takes seriously Egypt's obligations under the Camp...
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Africa Headlines
| 10 months ago
The moves by Egypt's first elected president, Mohammed Morsy, to assert his authority over the armed forces represent a significant play for power and a step towards a civilian state. Yet they are likely to have had at least the acquiescence of...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Thursday 16 August 2012 THE timing and speed with which President Muhammad Mursi eliminated five leaders of the Egyptian military council was surprising. Mursi had hardly been in power for 40 days when he sacked the leading...
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Haaretz
| 10 months ago
The Egyptian army has been deploying large anti-terrorist forces in parts of the Sinai peninsula without informing Israel in advance. The peace treaty between the two countries limits the Egyptian military presence in Sinai. Some of the Egyptian...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Arabs in several countries around the Middle East are relishing the prospect of a new era built on political reform and democratic rule. This craving for democracy was motivated by a desire to throw off the shackles of the past and finally achieve...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi's spokesman did not mince words. He said that the "retirement" of all the senior military commanders in the country represented the completion of the Egyptian revolution...Even as the spokesman was announcing that...
