Michael Slackman New York Times

The prison is called Tora Farm, but there is nothing agricultural about it. It is a two-story block of poured concrete, and for years its massive gray walls have held those deemed enemies of the powerful.Now they hold the full tableau of state power under President Hosni Mubarak: Gamal Mubarak, a prince of the political scene, now prisoner No. 23, ...

Egypt's military command said on Monday that the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, was prohibited from leaving the country, and that it would soon lift a detested emergency law, among a number of announcements seemingly intended to shore up diminishing support for the armed forces council ruling the nation. Members of the military command held a new...

Syria was tense and angry on Saturday as protesters set fire to a ruling party office, mourners buried the dead and the president announced the release of political prisoners, one day after government forces opened fire, again, on unarmed demonstrators.After more than a week of protests and 61 confirmed killed by government forces, there appeared n...

In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at the forefront, transformed into a tacit partner with the mili...

Thousands of jubilant protesters surged back into the symbolic heart of Bahrain on Saturday after government security forces withdrew and the monarchy called for peace after days of violent crackdowns.It was a remarkable turn after a week of protests that had shifted by the hour between joy and fear, euphoric surges of popular uprising followed by ...

The Bahrain  military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, took control of most of this capital on Thursday hours after hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers fired shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades to break up a pro-democracy camp inspired by the tumult swirling across the Middle East.Soldiers took up positions on...

Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square Manama early on Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation's absolute monarchy.At least five people died, some of them reportedly killed ...

More than 10,000 people streamed into the capital's central Pearl Square on Tuesday in the largest political protest to hit this Persian Gulf kingdom in recent memory.Galvanized by the death of a demonstrator in clashes with the police on Monday, protesters waved flags and chanted "peaceful" under the square's towering monument as a police helicopt...

Hosni Mubarak's legacy was supposed to be stability. During almost three decades in power, he rejected bold action in favor of caution. He took half-steps at economic liberalization, preserved the peace with Israel, gave his police force the power to arrest without charge and allowed only the veneer of democracy to take hold. But history upended Mr...

As Egyptians turned their anger on symbols of the state late last month, torching police stations along with the headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, they reserved a special hatred for a garish building with black tinted windows in an upscale neighborhood, setting fire to it three times.It belongs to a steel tycoon and ruling par...

This wealthy port city advertises its bustling canals and bridges and its towering 19th-century churches to draw visitors from around the world.It is less interested in drawing more attention to Al Quds Mosque, where the September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta prayed and which has become a destination for jihadi tourism. This summer, local authorities c...

The prison is called Tora Farm, but there is nothing agricultural about it. It is a two-story block of poured concrete, and for years its massive gray walls have held those deemed enemies of the powerful.Now they hold the full tableau of state power under President Hosni Mubarak: Gamal Mubarak, a prince of the political scene, now prisoner No. 23, ...

Egypt's military command said on Monday that the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, was prohibited from leaving the country, and that it would soon lift a detested emergency law, among a number of announcements seemingly intended to shore up diminishing support for the armed forces council ruling the nation. Members of the military command held a new...

Syria was tense and angry on Saturday as protesters set fire to a ruling party office, mourners buried the dead and the president announced the release of political prisoners, one day after government forces opened fire, again, on unarmed demonstrators.After more than a week of protests and 61 confirmed killed by government forces, there appeared n...

In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at the forefront, transformed into a tacit partner with the mili...

Thousands of jubilant protesters surged back into the symbolic heart of Bahrain on Saturday after government security forces withdrew and the monarchy called for peace after days of violent crackdowns.It was a remarkable turn after a week of protests that had shifted by the hour between joy and fear, euphoric surges of popular uprising followed by ...

The Bahrain  military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, took control of most of this capital on Thursday hours after hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers fired shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades to break up a pro-democracy camp inspired by the tumult swirling across the Middle East.Soldiers took up positions on...

Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square Manama early on Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation's absolute monarchy.At least five people died, some of them reportedly killed ...

More than 10,000 people streamed into the capital's central Pearl Square on Tuesday in the largest political protest to hit this Persian Gulf kingdom in recent memory.Galvanized by the death of a demonstrator in clashes with the police on Monday, protesters waved flags and chanted "peaceful" under the square's towering monument as a police helicopt...

Hosni Mubarak's legacy was supposed to be stability. During almost three decades in power, he rejected bold action in favor of caution. He took half-steps at economic liberalization, preserved the peace with Israel, gave his police force the power to arrest without charge and allowed only the veneer of democracy to take hold. But history upended Mr...

As Egyptians turned their anger on symbols of the state late last month, torching police stations along with the headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, they reserved a special hatred for a garish building with black tinted windows in an upscale neighborhood, setting fire to it three times.It belongs to a steel tycoon and ruling par...

This wealthy port city advertises its bustling canals and bridges and its towering 19th-century churches to draw visitors from around the world.It is less interested in drawing more attention to Al Quds Mosque, where the September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta prayed and which has become a destination for jihadi tourism. This summer, local authorities c...