Egypt Loyalists

A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent, official results showed on Wednesday.

A former intelligence officer who heads the largest loyalist coalition running in Egypt's upcoming elections expects his bloc to lead the new parliament and eventually seek to curb the legislature's wide-ranging powers.

At least four demonstrators and a policeman were killed today as supporters of Egypt's ousted president rallied for the first time since a deadly crackdown on their protest camps.

Egypt's cabinet today ordered a police crackdown on protests by ousted president Mohamed Morsi's loyalists, as European envoys headed for Cairo to try to ease tensions between the army-installed government and Islamists.

Egyptian Islamists pressed on with protests Saturday to demand the return of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, after tens of thousands of them clashed with his opponents during deadly rallies overnight.

The following opinion piece was authored by the recently ousted president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. The Dregs of Dictatorship: Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office. The wave of revolutions that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year was certainly cause for hope. But the people of those countri...

A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent, official results showed on Wednesday.

A former intelligence officer who heads the largest loyalist coalition running in Egypt's upcoming elections expects his bloc to lead the new parliament and eventually seek to curb the legislature's wide-ranging powers.

At least four demonstrators and a policeman were killed today as supporters of Egypt's ousted president rallied for the first time since a deadly crackdown on their protest camps.

Egypt's cabinet today ordered a police crackdown on protests by ousted president Mohamed Morsi's loyalists, as European envoys headed for Cairo to try to ease tensions between the army-installed government and Islamists.

Egyptian Islamists pressed on with protests Saturday to demand the return of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, after tens of thousands of them clashed with his opponents during deadly rallies overnight.

The following opinion piece was authored by the recently ousted president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. The Dregs of Dictatorship: Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office. The wave of revolutions that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year was certainly cause for hope. But the people of those countri...