Amnesty Hails Decline In Executions
US death penalty sentences fell to a historic low last year and executions also dropped sharply, contributing to a global ...
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Egypt Under Emergency Rule After Church Attacks
Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared ...
Egypt Set For Emergency Rule After Church Attacks
Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the deadliest ...
Islamic State Group Claims Responsibility For Twin Church Bombings In Egypt
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at a ...
Who Are Egypt’s Coptic Christians?
Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority ...
At Least 15 Dead In Egypt Church Bombing
A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered ...
New Documentary On Egypt’s Jon Stewart Follows Arab Spring Turmoil
Not long ago, the Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-comedian Bassem Youssef was hosting the most popular political satire television show in his ...
Trump Hosts Sisi In Landmark Visit, Praises ‘fantastic Job’ In Egypt
President Donald Trump put human rights controversies aside to warmly welcome Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House Monday, the ...
Slain Student’s Parents Urge Pope To Raise Case With Egypt
The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Cambridge University student tortured to death in Egypt last year, appealed Monday to Pope ...
Trump Welcomes Egypt’s Sisi Amid Questions On Rights Record
US President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who ...
Critics of Islands Accord Suffer Blow In Egypt Court
An Egyptian court ruled Sunday that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi ...
Egypt’s ‘fantastic Guy’ Sisi To Meet Donald Trump
After four years of tension with the United States, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi now has a fan in the ...
King Abdullah To Visit White House April 5
Jordan's King Abdullah will visit the White House next week for his second meeting with Donald Trump since the US ...
Trump ‘serious’ About Israel-Palestine Peace
President Donald Trump is "serious" about solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said ahead of a meeting with ...
Calls For Unity As Arab Leaders Gather
Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises including the devastating ...
Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas Meets Trump Envoy At Arab Summit
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has met one of US President Donald Trump's top envoys on the sidelines of an Arab ...
White House Says Egypt’s Sisi To Visit April 3
The White House announced Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will make an "official visit" to Washington on April 3, ending years in ...
Ousted Egypt President Mubarak Freed From Detention
Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian autocrat toppled during the 2011 Arab Spring, left a military hospital on Friday where he ...
Where Are the Leaders Now?
What happened to the leaders whose power was challenged in the so-called Arab Spring that began in late 2010? Here ...
Ousted Egypt President Hosni Mubarak Freed From Detention
Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of the last six ...