Tanks deployed in Cairo after deadly clashes

The Republican Guard, the division tasked with protecting the presidency, deployed tanks outside the palace.

Rana Allam

Opposition holds Morsy responsible for deaths

ElBaradei: the regime is losing legitimacy

Rana Allam

Fasten your seat belts please

The mood was tense last Thursday as anti-Islamist protesters continued their sit-in in Tahrir Square, demanding that President Mohammed Morsy annul the constitutional declaration he had issued a week before.…

Shahira Amin

Is the Muslim Brotherhood’s sowing the seeds of its own destruction?

It is not an exaggeration or act of slander to say that the Muslim Brotherhood has always been the fascist alternative to what has been a reactionary regime. In the…

Fady Salah

In Pictures: Al Itihadiya Palace Battle

Molotov, fires and injuries. As clashes continue between Morsy supporters and anti-Morsy protesters, Ministry of Health announced at 10pm CLT that the number of injured has reached 221

Rana Allam

In Pictures: President Mohamed Morsy leaves the palace ahead of clashes

President Mohamed Morsy left the palace ahead of clashes between his supporters and opponents. The rival camps clashed on side streets near the palace in the upscale Cairo neighbourhood of…

Liliana Mihaila

In Pictures: Brotherhood and opposition clash near presidential palace

Supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy lobbed firebombs and rocks at each other Wednesday as their standoff over his expanded powers and an Islamist-drafted constitution turned violent.

Liliana Mihaila

NATO approves Patriot missiles for Turkey

Turkey welcomed NATO's decision, and reiterated that the weapons are solely for defensive purposes

Liliana Mihaila

Israel PM heads to Berlin as settlement row grows

Observers say Israeli settlement there would effectively prevent the future establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state, dooming the two-state solution

Liliana Mihaila

Referendum regardless

Vice president says referendum to go as planned, proposes opposition groups wait and attempt constitutional amendments

Liliana Mihaila