Washington has reached out to the Brotherhood in a nod to the country’s new political reality, with Islamists poised to dominate the first parliament since a popular uprising ousted veteran president Hosni Mubarak in February.
Saudi Arabia has commuted the prison term of an Australian Muslim sentenced to a year in prison
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak’s long-time defense minister who now heads the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has vowed to hand power to civilian rule as quickly as possible.
Fatah/PLO/PA head Mahmoud Abbas is skipping the celebration of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, citing prior commitments. It's a direct snub.
William Burns “will meet leaders of the Freedom and Justice Party at their headquarters in Cairo,” FJP spokesman Ahmed Sobea told AFP.
A senior PLO official says the peace process is failing because Israel has made demands about security assurances the PLO won't meet.
For the first time since the trial started on Aug. 3, Egypt’s ailing former strongman sat in a wheelchair instead of lying on a stretcher, the correspondent said.
Theologians who are breathing new life into a kind of demonology which criminalizes all Israelis will meet in Bethlehem in March.
Terrorists are hitting the social networks to fight Israel and Western countries, says Haifa University Professor Gabriel Weimann.
U.S. Defense Secretary says Iran "not yet" building A-bomb, says U.S. and Israel have "common cause."
