DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians – descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago – and their situation...
President Barack Obama addressed several controversial issues in a Thursday speech, including the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the use of drones.
Below is the full text of Obama's speech as...
(CNN) – President Barack Obama announced changes to American counterterrorism policy Thursday in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington. Below are his remarks, as prepared for...
Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets.
Bob Somerby catches Greta Van Susteren asking House Speaker John Boehner about Benghazi last night:
VAN SUSTEREN: Have you determined why the whole YouTube video thing was brought up in Benghazi in the first...
French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, beloved in France for his songs celebrating liberty and collaborations with Edith Piaf, died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.
The Greek-born singer...
Five people drowned in Assiut while building an in-home sewer system on Thursday.
They were building a new sewer structure in a citizen's house in the village of Qossiya, in Assiut, south of Cairo, when the...
All daily papers publish headlines, features, and articles pertaining to the release of the seven Egyptian soldiers who were seized by unknown assailants in North Sinai last Thursday.
The lack of details...
After seven Egyptian soldiers were released on Wednesday, a military source on Thursday denied rumors that the Armed Forces had struck a compromise with their kidnappers.
The idea that, in return for the release of...
All daily papers publish headlines, features, and articles pertaining to the release of the seven Egyptian soldiers who were seized by unknown assailants in North Sinai last Thursday.
The lack of details...
Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming...
Cairo International Airport authorities deported a Nigerian woman thought to be suffering from AIDS on Thursday.
The passenger arrived from Nairobi on a Kenyan airline. Security authorities searched a doll she had...
Dostour Party chief Mohamed ElBaradei has called for early presidential elections should the government of President Mohamed Morsy prove unable to enact the critical changes the country needs.
ElBaradei, also a...
Tamer Hosny has been busy in the U.S. expanding his career and family, but the region can finally welcome back their favorite Egyptian songster. After livening up a Gala dinner event in Doha last weekend, Tamer...
Egyptian judges have been mistreated, a statement from the Judges Club quotes head of the International Association of Judges (UIM) Gerhard Reissner as saying during a visit to Egypt.
A bill that would lower the...
The Egyptian government said on Wednesday it would supply more gas and diesel to power stations to deal with electricity shortages that have worsened in recent months after the cash-strapped country failed to...
Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79.
Egypt has eliminated annual grants of LE100,000 (US$14,000) allocated by former President Hosni Mubarak to the Jewish community in the country, an Egyptian cabinet official said Wednesday.
Mubarak supported the...
Egypt's central bank kept the price of the country's currency steady against the dollar at a special $800 million foreign exchange auction on Wednesday, called to help importers pay for wheat, meat,...
