At least 14 people are believed to have died in a large explosion that destroyed a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early Tuesday morning, according to … Read the rest
At least 14 dead in Egyptian car bomb explosion
Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
Q&A: The trial of ousted Egyptian president Morsi
Another former president of Egypt is going on trial. Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist leader who became the country’s first freely elected president only to be ousted by the military after a year in office, faces charges he incited … Read the rest
Egypt’s Mubarak leaves jail for house arrest
Egypt’s toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak was transferred from prison to house arrest at a military hospital on Thursday, in a move overshadowed by a blistering crackdown against his Islamist successors.
The former strongman, forced to quit in early … Read the rest
Army determined to crush Egypt’s Brotherhood
Militants killed 25 policemen on Monday in the deadliest attack of its kind in years, as Egypt’s army-installed rulers escalated a campaign to crush ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.
The assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at two buses carrying police … Read the rest
Egypt arrests Brotherhood’s spiritual leader
Egypt’s military-backed rulers are pressing on in their crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood with the arrest early Tuesday of the group’s spiritual leader who had been in hiding near the huge sit-in in support … Read the rest
Egyptian hospital ordered to note deaths as suicides
Egyptian authorities have ordered hospital personnel to record some of the deaths of those with gunshot wounds as suicides.
Thirty-eight prisoners died from teargas suffocation during a riot in a prison near the capital Cairo on Sunday. At least 830 … Read the rest
Egypt’s Christians terrified after church attacks
Egypt’s Christians are living in fear after a string of attacks against churches, businesses and homes they say were carried out by angry supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
As police dispersed Morsi supporters from … Read the rest
Almost 280 dead after Egyptian police storm protestors
Egypt was under a tense state of emergency Thursday after security forces stormed the Cairo protest camps supporting ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, in a bloody assault that sparked violence across the country which officials said claimed 278 … Read the rest
Egypt: Security forces move in
Security forces backed by bulldozers moved in on Wednesday on two huge protest camps set up in Cairo by supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left dozens dead and injured.
The … Read the rest
Sixteen protestors shot dead in Cairo: Islamists
Sixteen Islamist activists were shot dead early on Monday during a protest outside a key Cairo army headquarters calling … Read the rest
Muslim Brotherhood leader vows to reinstate Morsi in Egypt
The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Friday vowed that the group’s followers would hold open-ended protests to press for the reinstatement of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, as violence mounted in the country.… Read the rest
Egyptians celebrate Morsi’s ouster
The general’s voice boomed from loudspeakers set up in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square and the boisterous crowds erupted into cheers, dancing and waving a sea of red, black and white Egyptian flags.… Read the rest
Egypt: Morsi wrestles with Army
President Mohamed Morsi rebuffed an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis, saying on Tuesday that he had not been consulted and would pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.
The Islamist leader … Read the rest
Obama Administration condemns Christian Copt protest in Egypt
Obama fully supported protests to overthrow the relatively friendly Egyptian Government of Mubarak. U.S. support paved way for an Islamist takeover by the oppressive and violent Muslim Brotherhood.
Now those suffering the most under this brutal Islamist rule want to … Read the rest