President Obama, on the first leg of a Mideast trip, said Wednesday that he is confident the United States and Saudi Arabia can "make progress on a whole host of issues of mutual interest."
In his speech Thursday to the Muslim world from Egypt, President Obama must seize the moment to stress that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, to appeal to millions of young men and women burdened by economic hardship and political oppression, and to help broker an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
President Obama will deliver a speech June 4 in Egypt on America's relationship with the Muslim world, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced Friday.
Though discouraged by Iran's moves since the Obama administration extended its "open hand," the United States is "not willing to pull the hand back yet," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Cairo on Monday to begin a trip he hopes will allay Middle East countries' concerns about U.S. talks with Iran.
A bombing in one of the Egyptian capital's busy tourist districts killed a French tourist Sunday and wounded 23 other people, including 18 Europeans, Egyptian authorities reported.
The Egyptian government has unexpectedly released one of the country's most prominent dissidents, Ayman Nour, who was jailed more than three years ago despite widespread national and international objections.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to meet Monday in Cairo with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss developments in talks with Hamas, according to Egypt's government-owned Al-Ahram newspaper.
Bloodshed, fear, privation and anger were all clearly visible in Gaza as we finally managed to enter the territory. Unsurprisingly, there were also displays of fist-shaking defiance, but what I had not expected was the high morale.
President Obama, on the first leg of a Mideast trip, said Wednesday that he is confident the United States and Saudi Arabia can "make progress on a whole host of issues of mutual interest."
In his speech Thursday to the Muslim world from Egypt, President Obama must seize the moment to stress that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, to appeal to millions of young men and women burdened by economic hardship and political oppression, and to help broker an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
President Obama will deliver a speech June 4 in Egypt on America's relationship with the Muslim world, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced Friday.
Though discouraged by Iran's moves since the Obama administration extended its "open hand," the United States is "not willing to pull the hand back yet," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Cairo on Monday to begin a trip he hopes will allay Middle East countries' concerns about U.S. talks with Iran.
A bombing in one of the Egyptian capital's busy tourist districts killed a French tourist Sunday and wounded 23 other people, including 18 Europeans, Egyptian authorities reported.
The Egyptian government has unexpectedly released one of the country's most prominent dissidents, Ayman Nour, who was jailed more than three years ago despite widespread national and international objections.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to meet Monday in Cairo with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss developments in talks with Hamas, according to Egypt's government-owned Al-Ahram newspaper.
Bloodshed, fear, privation and anger were all clearly visible in Gaza as we finally managed to enter the territory. Unsurprisingly, there were also displays of fist-shaking defiance, but what I had not expected was the high morale.
Egypt has put forward a plan for a truce in Gaza that would include an immediate cease-fire and meetings in Cairo between leaders of Israel and "Palestinian factions."
An audio message reportedly from al Qaeda's deputy chief vows revenge for Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza and calls the Jewish state's actions against Hamas militants "a gift" from U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
Some of the 11 European tourists and their Egyptian guides kidnapped 10 days ago and released unharmed Monday have left an Egyptian hospital and are headed home, officials said.
Germany's government has taken the lead trying to negotiate the release of a group of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in the southern Egyptian desert and taken to neighboring Sudan, authorities said Tuesday.
A group of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians have been kidnapped in the southern Egyptian desert and apparently taken to neighboring Sudan, an Egyptian government spokesman said on Monday.
An Egyptian lawmaker and business tycoon was arrested Tuesday in the death of a Lebanese pop singer, Egypt's chief prosecutor said, accusing the man of paying a former police officer $2 million to kill her
Police say three Palestinian rockets have hit southern Israel and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office says the cease-fire that took effect last week has been broken
In light of growing unrest around the world over rising food prices, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is asking for a closer look at the crisis and its security implications, a U.S. military official said Monday.
Analysis: Israel wants Egypt to reseal the border. But to do that Egypt needs agreements with both Hamas and President Abbas -- and the Palestinians aren't talking to each other
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday signed on to President Bush's goal of reaching a Mideast peace deal by the time the U.S. leader leaves office in January 2009.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has promised to lift the controversial emergency rule he imposed on his country last month and says the upcoming parliamentary elections will be "free and fair."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall will confront "critical issues" in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Four Palestinians were killed and 25 wounded, including two journalists, Thursday during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israel rounded up members of the Hamas-led Palestinian government Thursday, and warplanes fired a rocket into the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry building in Gaza City.
State security forces have again attacked demonstrators in central Cairo, arresting dozens of people who had turned out to show support for two judges.
Egypt's interior minister said Wednesday that there is a connection between previous bombings at Egyptian seaside resorts and this week's triple bombing in Dahab.
Egyptian officials say several people have been arrested following three deadly explosions at a Red Sea resort town, while a terrorism expert has predicted there will be more attacks in the region.
Twenty-three people, including three foreigners, were killed and 62 others were wounded Monday in terrorist bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Dahab, the Egyptian interior minister said.
On the third anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi authorities found the bodies of five men who appeared to be the latest victims of sectarian violence, and four civilians died in insurgent bomb blasts.
Egypt's transport minister has said a blaze aboard an Egyptian ferry set off a sequence of events that led it to sink Friday in the Red Sea, causing what officials fear may be around 1,000 deaths.
Rescuers who plucked more than 340 people from the chilly Red Sea were continuing to search the water Saturday for hundreds of other people feared dead after an Egyptian ferry sank with about 1,400 people on board.
More than 200 opposition supporters protested on Monday against what they said were rigged parliamentary elections in which President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) ruling party won some three quarters of the seats.
Egyptian authorities are searching for several Pakistani individuals and have been since before the attacks on the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, an official with Egypt's interior ministry told CNN Monday.
Investigators in Egypt searched Saturday for bodies and clues after near-simultaneous bombings at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, attacks that killed at least 83 people and injured more than 200 others.
Egyptian security forces on Sunday were sweeping the Sinai peninsula and rounding up Bedouins as part of their investigation into three bombings that killed 84 people and wounded more than 200 in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour was charged Tuesday with forging signatures to win approval for his political party, his wife told CNN.
Under pressure from the United States, Europe and significant portion of Lebanon's populace, Syrian intelligence units Tuesday were in the process of leaving Beirut, a Lebanese army source told CNN.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have accepted invitations for a summit next week in Egypt, officials on both sides said Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday night he believes the Palestinians have created conditions for a "historic breakthrough" in relations between the bitter rivals.
An Israeli businessman who spent eight years in an Egyptian jail after being accused of espionage was released Sunday as part of an agreement between the two countries.
The retired general who led U.S. troops into war in Afghanistan and Iraq bemoans the lack of international aid in toppling Iraq's dictator and criticizes U.S. investment in surveillance widgets instead of human spies.
After meeting with Egyptian leaders in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell affirmed the nations will work together to address Sudan's humanitarian crisis, Mideast peace and security in Iraq.
Doctors treating Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for a slipped disk want to try an alternative to surgery before proceeding with an operation, an Egyptian government spokesman said.
Israel will keep six large blocs of Jewish settlements in the West Bank under its control as part of a plan to withdraw from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa is expected to tour Arab capitals in the days ahead to discuss plans for a summit in the wake of the cancellation of a meeting that was to begin Monday in Tunisia.
Egypt has offered to host the Arab League summit after the annual event was abruptly postponed just two days before the meeting was to start in Tunisia.
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