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Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki has described Egypt's situation as shocking to himself or any other "democratic person", based on the fact that liberals and human rights activists have...

Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front Party has announced that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will run for a fourth presidential term in the elections scheduled to take place next April. Ammar...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has condemned the continued "enforced disappearance" of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the ongoing ban on visits by his lawyers. The movement accused the...

Egypt's minister of defense and leader of the July 3 military coup Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said he may bow to public pressure and run for presidency if the people...

Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as Aman, is expecting for Egyptians to thwart the military dictatorship of Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel Fattah...

U.S. Senator John McCain said that President Obama failure to handle the issue of violence in Egypt has lost the United States its credibility in the Middle East. McCain...

The US government has given Egypt $584 million in military aid out of a total expected annual amount of $1.3 billion. The payment has been made by the administration...

US newspaper the Washington Post published on Tuesday its most scathing editorial yet criticising the recent developments in Egypt. Under the headline "Egypt's bogus democracy doesn't deserve US aid,"...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib abdul-Razak has criticised the military coup in Egypt, noting that it shouldn't have been carried out. Speaking to the CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour...

Turkey's Zaman newspaper has accused Western responses to the coup in Egypt of "contradicting democratic values". Instead of taking a decisive stand against the overthrow of an elected president,...

The military coup and removal of Mohamed Morsi took many observers by surprise, much like the January 25th Revolution which no one seemed to have been expecting. Unexpected as...

Turkey's President Abdullah Gül has approved a legal amendment intended to prevent the army from carrying out military coups d'état. Article 35 of the Turkish Army's Internal Service Code...

Dutch foreign minister, Frans Timmermans, left Cairo after a two-day visit in which he discussed the situation in the country, bilateral relations, and other regional issues with interim President...

A leading Macedonian NGO has hosted a debate on the situation in Egypt and the Arab Spring countries, and the future of the democratic process therein. The Centre for...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that accepting the military coup in Egypt means that people will not be able to speak up in the future...

An informed source in Palestine has claimed that former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan, who is currently a senior government advisor in the UAE, has visited Turkey and met opposition...

Last weekend McClatchy newspapers published an article under the headline "Egypt's 'revolution' is over as people accept imposition of military rule". In the article journalist Nancy A. Youssef remarks...

The Arab world is going through a turbulent period. A wave of popular uprisings that began in December 2010 with the self-immolation of Muhammed Bouazizi in Tunisia has had...

The leaders of the Egyptian army have taken Egypt back nearly a 100 years…. they have taken it back to the era of military coups, which were prevalent in...

In Robert Ludlum's The Aquitaine Progression, the story begins with protagonist Joel Converse meeting a man he has not seen in 20 years, dying violently at his feet whispering...

The matter at hand during this difficult time, which began with the events on June 30 2013 and culminated in a military coup on July 3 2013, is not...

Why were the Gulf States of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia so unhappy at the success of the January 2011 revolution in Egypt and so passionate...

The military coup in Egypt this month and the bloody attacks since, perpetrated by the military and police against supporters of constitutional legitimacy, will form an important turning point...

For the first time since the coup, the US administration has taken a clear position towards the situation in Egypt. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the...

Over the past few weeks, I have been dismayed by the degree of intolerance and rigidity of the quarrelling parties in Egypt; both have been on the defensive, unwilling...

Let's not beat about the bush. What happened on Wednesday in Egypt was the use of excessive force by soldiers and police. We have witnessed a massacre in every...

The new Pinochet-style government in Egypt has followed in the footsteps of the George W Bush administration, with national television now displaying the slogan, permanently and in very clear...

Genuine democracy requires practice and partnership, and cannot be realised without the participation of the people. Mobilising crowds to replace the ballot box is very dangerous because a lust...

Nowadays, Egypt is witnessing the absurdity of the coup-backed media spreading lies to demonise the coup's opponents and then calling on those who have been named to prove their...

It was not difficult to anticipate the stumbling paths of the 25 January revolution and their repercussions such as those we see now of the decline and absence of...

When Mohammed Morsi was ousted by the Egyptian military on 3 July, Saudi Arabia was one of the first nations to express its support for the new regime. The...

It was not only natural for the Egyptian media to side with the coup leadership, but also inevitable. The media has played a key role in Egyptian politics for...