U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed Syria's newly reframed opposition as the "legitimate" representative of the nation's people on Tuesday, AFP reported, in the most significant U.S. intervention in a brutal civil war. As Washington cranked up pressure on beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration also blacklisted the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, which officials fear
Spanish police have found 28 million euros ($36.5 million) in assets owned by ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and people close to him, including Marbella beach properties and luxury cars, the government said on Thursday. Egypt had asked Spain to track down assets in the country belonging to the former president and more than
Egyptian expats will take part in a controversial constitutional referendum on Wednesday at 150 Egyptian embassies and 11 consulates around the world. Analysts are expecting the vote to show many Egyptians not in favor of the referendum on a constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly and bitterly opposed by his mainly secular opponents.
Egypt announced early on Wednesday that the upcoming constitutional referendum will be held in two stages, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 due to a shortage of judges needed to oversee the process, Al Arabiya TV reported. The decision came hours after the country’s Judges Club decided to boycott the process, refusing to oversee the
Egypt's army has called for President Mohammed Morsi and the secular opposition to meet on Wednesday to stop a crisis over an imminent constitutional referendum from tearing the country apart, AFP reports. The televised appeal by General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the country's armed forces chief and defense minister, came late Tuesday, as rival camps
Egypt’s increasingly unstable Muslim Brotherhood regime, voted into power on an anti-US and anti-Israel platform, is about to receive 20 F-16 fighters jets despite calls to suspend arms sales to Cairo, Fox News reported Tuesday. The jets were ordered by deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and the Muslim Brotherhood is about to take over
Egypt’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it would offer $1 billion of one-year treasury bills for auction on Dec. 17, rolling over U.S. dollar-denominated bills maturing from last year when it introduced the instrument. The new bills will be issued on Dec. 18, when last year's bills, also totaling $1 billion, are due to
After sitting politically backstage for the past six months, Egypt’s powerful military has been thrust back into the spotlight to handle a crisis that is testing its desire to stay neutral and its duty to maintain order. The military has called for President Mohamed Mursi and the secular opposition to meet later on Wednesday
Rival mass protests have been called for next Tuesday in Egypt, over a bitterly disputed constitutional referendum, raising the potential for more violent street clashes in a sharpening political crisis. AFP reported that President Mohammed Morsi's chief foes, the opposition National Salvation Front, called on Sunday for huge protests in Cairo to reject the
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has given Egypt's army the powers of arrest and ordered it to “cooperate” with police until after the results of the Dec. 15 referendum on the disputed draft constitution. The presidential decree, which is to appear on Tuesday in the government's official gazette under “Law 107,” was issued ahead of
