Hosni Mubarak's fall from power a year ago stunned the world -- three decades of iron-clad rule ended in 17 days by an unexpected groundswell of popular protests.
It was nearly 1 a.m. Cairo time last Friday when Bob Bradley called. If you're the Egyptian national soccer coach, as Bradley has been since last September, lack of sleep is understandable these days. On Feb. 1, more than 70 people died in violent clashes after an Egyptian league game between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Port Said.
As though there were not enough tumult in Egypt, a new crisis has soured its strongest Western ally and threatened to sever military aid a year after revolution felled a longtime dictator.
The United States threatens retaliation if Egypt puts NGO workers on trial. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Violent riots break out following the soccer clash that left 79 dead. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Bob Bradley knew the job would be tough when he took it.
CNN's Chris Lawrence looks at the growing calls for the U.S. to cut aid to Egypt.
U.S. aid to Egypt could suffer if Egypt persists in prosecuting 43 people, including 19 Americans, in a crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, White House and State Department officials said Monday.
Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday.
CNN's Ben Wedeman describes the Egyptian criminal court "legal limbo" that 43 NGO workers face.
Violent clashes near Egypt's Interior Ministry on Monday left at least one person dead and 72 injured, a health ministry official said.
Ben Wedeman reports on the mounting anger behind riots and street protests in Egypt.
Protests continue in Egypt after a riot at a soccer match leaves 79 dead. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
Demonstrators clashed with police outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.
Clashes continue between protesters and police near the Interior Ministry in Cairo. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Massive flames shot into the sky over northern Sinai on Saturday after a section of a pipeline that carries gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded, according to a security official in the region.
A wave of protests broke out at Syrian embassies on several continents amid reports of hundreds of deaths in one Syrian city and hours before a possible U.N. Security Council vote on a response to the violent crackdown in the country. Here's a breakdown of some of the demonstrations Friday and Saturday:
Twelve people died over two days in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters amid reports of inadequate security at a soccer match that devolved into a riot in which 79 fans were killed, officials said Saturday.
Nine people died over two days in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters amid reports of inadequate security at a soccer match that devolved into a riot in which 79 fans were killed, officials said Friday.
"The people and the army are one hand," the chant of Egypt's January 25th revolution on the eve of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, has yielded in the face of toxic gases, rubber bullets and live ammunition from the security forces, composed of army and police, to "the army and the police are one dirty hand."
The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win the most seats in Egypt's parliamentary elections.
Two American tourists who were kidnapped in the southern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were freed Friday, a security official said.
Political tensions flared Wednesday after more than 70 people were killed when fans rushed the field and rioted at a soccer game in Egypt.
The deaths of 73 football fans shortly after a match between Cairo 's Al Ahly and Al Masry in Port Said, Egypt, has shocked the world.
CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on the more than 70 people killed when fans rushed the field after a soccer game in Port Said.
Supporters of former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, are now publishing a monthly Arab-language newspaper.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Arab region remains one of the global risks for 2012.
Restive Egyptians are free, yet lack a functioning government a year since the revolt began. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Egyptians in Cairo and several cities headed to the polls Sunday in the first stage of elections for the upper house of parliament.
Sam LaHood, a senior representative of the U.S. International Republican Institute and the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, has been prevented from leaving Egypt, the institute said Thursday.
Thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday, exactly one year after the start of the revolution that ousted longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak but, many say, accomplished little else.
A look at some of the moments from the first 18 days of upheaval in Egypt that culminated in political change.
Newly elected Egyptian ministers held their first parliamentary session this week, almost a year to the day after the start of historic protests in the capital led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. But for all the bravery and resilience the demonstrators showed by withstanding a brutal crackdown as they sang, waved flags and held candlelight vigils for 18 days, the movement began many years before.
Egypt's democratically elected parliament met Monday for the first time since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year.
Egypt's first democratically elected parliament is to meet Monday - but that is not the end of the country's revolution.
The first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution is today. Egyptian society and the forces in Egypt are in a state of anticipation. World media has its cameras and correspondents in Cairo and major cities around the country. But many Egyptians wonder if the revolution amounted to nothing more than a military coup.
Journalist Ian Lee explains prosecutors asked for the death penalty for Hosni Mubarak to defuse tensions in Egypt.
Egypt's military rulers said they handed legislative powers to the country's lower house of parliament on Monday -- the first day the parliament convened since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster last year.
Two Islamist parties won about 70% of the seats in the Egyptian election for the lower house of parliament, according to electoral commission figures released Saturday.
Egypt's top political parties have agreed to nominate a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as the nation's next parliament speaker, the first time in decades that an Islamist would hold that post.
Jane Kinninmont of Chatham House discusses Egypt's time of transition.
Egypt's military-led government, struggling to manage the transition to democracy, has a rising adversary: rebellious Bedouin tribes.
African Voices he talks to actor and activist Khaled Abol Naga about the momentous period in his country's history.
The final runoff of Egypt's first free elections in recent memory has ended and the result is clear: Islamist parties have swept the popular vote.
CNN looks at how the Arab unrest that dominated headlines in 2011 first emerged in Tunisia, then spread to Egypt.
Egypt opens the third round of voting for the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday after Islamist parties performed strongly in the previous rounds last month.
Egyptian police carry out 17 raids on 10 nongovernmental organizations across the country. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
Egypt's ruling military council has moved up the scheduled elections for the upper house of parliament by nearly three weeks, with voting now scheduled to start in late January, the state news agency MENA reported Sunday.
Egyptian authorities have agreed to return all the equipment and documents seized during a series of raids this week of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the U.S. State Department said Friday.
CNN's Zain Verjee talks to Egypt's NDI director about how police conducted the raid on her organization.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on a raid by Egyptian police of U.S. rights groups in which computers were seized.
Several rights groups, including three U.S.-based entities, were raided in Cairo and other Egyptian locations on Thursday in what one source called a push by police to "show some muscle."
A prominent Egyptian blogger freed by an Egyptian judge on Sunday lambasted the military government and said "nothing has changed" since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February.
Two Islamist parties won handily in Egypt's parliamentary election runoff, an election official said Saturday.
Mona Eltahawy tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer that she was attacked in Egypt by the military.
The Egyptian revolution has a new, and shocking, image: It's the Egyptian flag, but the eagle in the middle has been replaced by a simple blue bra. The image refers to the recent, savage beating of an abaya-clad female protester by Egyptian military forces.
Egypt's ruling military council Tuesday expressed "great regret" to Egyptian women over recent attacks on female demonstrators by military police and vowed to hold accountable those responsible.
Egypt's ruling military council Tuesday expressed "great regret" to Egyptian women over recent attacks on female demonstrators by military police and vowed to hold accountable those responsible.
An hour or so drive from the chaotic and congested streets of downtown Cairo is a very different world.
Egyptian security forces beat protesters and set fire their tents in Cairo. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Pro-democracy demonstrators battled Egyptian police for a third straight day Sunday, their anger stoked by images of a military police officer stomping on a woman's exposed stomach over the weekend.
The new round of bloody clashes between pro-democracy protesters and Egypt's security forces left 10 people dead Saturday, including six by live ammunition, even though the new prime minister denied that live fire was being used by his forces.
Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation one year ago was an act which symbolized the frustration and desperation of millions in the Arab world, setting into motion a series of revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa.
CNN Defining Moments 2011 -- The Arab Spring continued its spread across Egypt and North Africa
CNN's Fareed Zakaria explains why different symbols appeared on the ballot in Egypt's recent elections.
Egyptians headed to the polls Wednesday for a critical round of voting to shape the new parliament and help determine how much power Islamists will hold in building the country's next government.
Egypt reduced the sentence of a blogger from three years to two on Wednesday, but his supporters remained enraged that he had received any sentence at all.
A group in Cairo is using a Facebook page to unite Egypt's different religions at a local coffeehouse in the upper-class suburb of Maadi.
A group of friends from different religious backgrounds are meeting for coffee to help change perceptions in Egypt.
At the end of the first round of voting in Egypt's historic elections, Islamist parties appear headed for a decisive majority in the first freely elected parliament since the ouster of former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Israel's new ambassador to Egypt is due to report to his post in Cairo on Monday, a government official said, three months after Israel pulled diplomatic staff out of the country in response to the storming of its embassy.
Religious political parties in Egypt say their election success is a sign of true democracy. CNN's Jim Clancy reports.
The military council that runs Egypt and an Islamist party that has done well in parliamentary elections accused each other Thursday of plotting a dictatorship.
Egypt's Islamists claimed victory in the first round of parliamentary elections since President Hosni Mubarak was forced out of office in February.
Excerpt from CNNI year-end special "Defining Moments 2011." The once-cowed and silent people of Egypt find their voice.
Amnesty International is demanding the United States stop allowing the export of arms and riot-control material to Egypt, where security forces have cracked down on protests.
The strong performance of Islamist parties in the Egyptian elections this week raised eyebrows in some Western capitals.
Egypt's complex elections continued Monday, with 104 candidates vying for 52 seats in a runoff for the lower house of parliament.
Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
Jim Clancy reports from Egypt on historic elections that saw a 62% turnout and Muslim Brotherhood winning most votes.
Results from this week's election in Egypt are expected Saturday, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said.
An Egyptian military leader calls this week's parliamentary elections a success.
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The release of results in the first round of voting from Egypt's historic election are being postponed, the country's military rulers said Thursday.
Results of the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections are expected to be released. CNN's Jim Clancy reports.
After 60 years of waiting, Egyptians may very well find themselves with a strong, assertive Parliament. On Monday and Tuesday, millions of Egyptians spent hours in long, looping lines, waiting to cast ballots in the country's first elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
They were outside every polling station I visited in Cairo: earnest young men bent over laptops on rickety tables, checking names and ID numbers against voting lists, explaining to people where they were supposed to vote, and, in light of Egypt's wildly complicated electoral system, how to vote.
CNN's Ben Wedeman reports the Muslum Brotherhood may be the big winner in Egypt's parliamentary election.
Tahrir Square was peaceful Wednesday as Egyptians awaited initial results of parliamentary elections, a break from the clashes that have gripped Cairo for much of the past two weeks.
Egyptians reveled in their chance to vote in a post-Hosni Mubarak era during a second day of parliamentary elections, but nightfall brought new clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square that stretched into Wednesday.
Reveling in their opportunity to vote in a post-Hosni Mubarak era, Egyptians headed to the polls Tuesday for the second day of the country's parliamentary elections.
Egyptian election officials sealed ballot boxes with candle wax Monday after the first day of the country's parliamentary elections.
CNN's Ben Wedeman explains the difference between this election and those in the past and offers some predictions.
For the first time since the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, Egyptians will be able to choose their representatives to the nation's Parliament. Here's a look at what's at stake, how the process will unfold and why some are boycotting the elections.
Egypt is on the roller-coaster of transition. It's a bumpy and hair-raising ride to a destination unknown. But the country is moving. And in that, there's hope.
CNN's Ivan Watson reports from Cairo as parliamentary elections approach.
Streets in Egypt's capital remained tense Sunday a day ahead of elections.
Journalist Mona Eltahawy explains her harrowing experience in captivity in Egypt.
An American college student arrested during Egypt's recent protests arrived stateside on Saturday.
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