Tag: Egypt

Egyptians voted Wednesday in the second round of a parliamentary election with Islamist parties seeking to bolster early gains and secure a dominant position...

Never too early for campaigning While the elections are scheduled for the beginning of 2013, what one sees happening around gives the impression of the...

What got our attention and what didn’t Unfortunately for most of us in Pakistan, our ideals of heroes have changed drastically. When a country of...

Egypt’s biggest political group the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with the country’s army leaders on Thursday, accusing them of trying to “marginalise” parliament over the...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it won most seats in a first-round parliamentary vote, with early tallies suggesting liberals had backed some of...

Islamist candidates in Egypt looked Monday to extend their crushing victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, as...

Early results from Egypt’s first post-revolution election showed Islamist parties sweeping to victory, including hardline Salafists, with secular parties trounced in many areas. Partial figures...

Activists in Egypt have called two separate demonstrations for Friday, one against the interim military rulers in charge since the country’s February revolution and...

A member of Egypt’s ruling military council said on Tuesday that he expected turnout in the first stage of a parliamentary election to exceed...

Clashes between protesters and street vendors in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square injured some 79 people overnight, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The skirmishes erupted...

Post-revolution Egypt headed to the polls Monday for an election clouded by violence and a political crisis, the start of a long process to...

Egyptians began voting Monday morning in the first elections since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February in one of...

Egypt’s army rulers, protesters and future political leaders were locked in a fierce power struggle on Sunday that set the country on edge ahead...

Members of Egypt's ruling military council on Thursday rejected calls to step down immediately, saying it would amount to a "betrayal" as anti-military protests...

Street clashes rumbled on in Cairo on Wednesday as protesters derided a deal struck between Egypt’s ruling generals and mostly Islamist parties for a...

Fresh clashes erupted in Cairo on Wednesday between protesters and police in which at least three people were killed, a doctor told AFP, as...

Faced by angry street protests, Egypt’s military rulers are under fire from all political sides and are locked in their worst crisis since the...