CAIRO: On the Giza Plateau outside Cairo, thousands of Egyptians are laboring in the shadow of the pyramids to erect a monument worthy of the pharaohs. The...
CAIRO: EgyptAir is standing by a writer for its in-flight magazine who penned a bizarre article purportedly based on an interview with American actress Drew...
CAIRO: Once a month, Abdullah waits outside Cairo’s notorious Tora prison for hours, standing without shade under the blazing Egyptian sun for a chance to see...
CAIRO: In a remote outpost in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Ibrahim Abu Sefira watches a mountainous skyline of jagged rock, ears tuned to the twilight silence,...
CAIRO: Egypt’s state censors prohibited the performance of a play just hours before its Sunday premiere in Cairo, the latest episode in authorities’...
CAIRO: Egypt’s military has destroyed dozens of targets, killed 16 militants and detained over 30 suspects as part of its latest operation against Islamist...
CAIRO: Scientists say they have found a hidden chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, in what would be the first such discovery in the structure...
CAIRO: Egypt launched a major shakeup of its security services Saturday in an apparent reaction to an ambush by militants outside Cairo last week that killed...
CAIRO: Islamic extremists killed 10 Egyptian soldiers in fighting in a central part of the restive Sinai Peninsula during an army raid on a militant hideout...
CAIRO: Egyptian intelligence has hired a U.S. public relations firm to lobby on the country’s behalf in Washington and boost its image, the first such...
CAIRO: When a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Cairo church a week ago, it marked a bloody escalation by Egypt’s militants, raising fears that an...
MAKHMUR, Iraq: The sand berms and trenches that snake across northern Iraq stretch toward Syria, some accompanied by newly paved roads lit by street lamps and...
QAYYARAH, Iraq: For months, residents of the Iraqi town of Qayyarah have lived under a dark cloud of toxic fumes released by oil well fires lit by retreating...
WARSAW: Ahead of a visit last month to Poland by the pope, with security extremely high, Polish police arrested an Iraqi man for possessing “trace amounts” of...
CAIRO: Blast walls, sandbags and guards with machine pistols manning checkpoints ring the Israeli diplomatic compound in the leafy Cairo suburb of Maadi. But...
Labor activist Kamal al-Fayoumi has lost none of his swagger since being fired from the sprawling Egyptian textile plant where he worked for three decades and...
EASTERN DESERT, Egypt: Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt’s eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the...
KAFR HAMOUDA, Egypt: “For a thousand years,” Abdullah Sheikh’s family has been working the land the same way – flooding fields in Egypt’s Nile Delta and...
Egypt's president urged citizens to defend the state and its institutions from the "forces of evil" on Sunday, a day before planned demonstrations against his...
CAIRO: Scans of King Tut’s burial chamber have revealed two hidden rooms, Egypt’s antiquities minister said Thursday – a discovery that...
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities are increasingly harassing foreign academics with restrictions, deportations and bans on entering the country. Particularly...
KAWERGOSK CAMP, Iraq: Perwin Shamsaddeen Ali, a Syrian refugee living in a tent camp in northern Iraq, has been reduced to cooking one meal a day for her...
CAIRO: International passengers departing Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh continued to line up for flights on Sunday, as the first of three...
LUXOR, Egypt: Egypt had launched festivities, archaeological openings and a new tourism campaign to draw much-needed foreign visitors. But with many flights...
CAIRO: In a few short years, if everything goes according to plan, Egypt will have new megaprojects, special investment zones and power plants fueled by the...