U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel late Sunday for high-level talks with Israeli officials focusing on the course of political action in Egypt, Iran's alleged clandestine nuclear program and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
During her visit to Egypt Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade was the target of tomatoes, among other things.
Egypt's top armed-forces official, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said on Sunday that the country's military will not allow a certain group to dominate national politics, which some suggested is a veiled reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Israel is faced with a major water deficit, and it's investing in desalination to solve the problem -- but the country's big push for getting water from the sea is not without risks.
Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion -- both for the U.S. and for people across the world -- as well as the downsides of America's failure to pursue that task.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday on his first foreign trip since taking office late last month, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) swiftly overruled Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's order to reconvene the parliament, intensifying the confrontation between the newly elected president and the judiciary, which is believed to be acting in the interests of the backers of Mubarak regime and the ruling military-led Supreme Council.
Libya?s new ?liberal? government may distance itself from the West and from NATO, which helped rebels free the country from Moammar Gadhafi.
The Egyptian parliament convened for less than an hour, Tuesday, in an event billed as an act of defiance against the country's military led Supreme Council, which dissolved the parliament last month after a court hearing.
Desai may have had the last laugh on all the naysayers; he lived to be 99 years old (in a country where the average life expectancy is only 64).
The White House has invited Egypt's recently elected president Mohammad Mursi to visit the U.S. in September, as the latest Obama administration effort to reach out to Egypt's newly empowered Islamists.
The long-anticipated showdown between Egypt's military and its new president -- the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi -- has opened, with Morsi, the SCAF and the Supreme Court heading into a three-way contest.
Assad also specifically singled out the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of supporting the ?terrorists? who are seeking his overthrow.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Parliament to reconvene Sunday, in defiance of the military and a court that dissolved it.
Newly-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will head to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, on his first official foreign visit after taking charge.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Shah of Iran were solidly supported by the U.S., Israel, and Western Europe -- a scenario that outraged much of the populace in each country and exacerbated festering resentments.
If defected Syrian regime official Manaf Tlas goes to Paris, it would be in line with a growing trend of bonhomie between Syrian opposition activists and the City of Light.
The current situation in Libya means that there is no clear best choice for Libya's 2.7 million registered voters.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited his newly elected Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Morsi, to a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) nations to be held in Tehran in late August to promote undeniable and constructive cooperation between the nations, an Iranian government statement said.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the anti-government protests in his country are not comparable to the Arab Spring protests elsewhere, and that it's not people, but terrorists, who want to oust him from power.
Palestinian officials have called an international probe into the death of its leader Yasser Arafat, more than eight years after he died of several mysterious health complications, following a report that he could have been poisoned with a radioactive substance known as polonium.
