ZAGAZIG, Egypt (Reuters) - When protests erupted in Cairo in 2011, liberal activist Hassan El-Erian quickly mobilised demonstrations in his hometown of Zagazig, risking arrest, or worse, to push for ...

Egypt’s authoritarian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned nearly three dozen political prisoners, including a leader of the Arab Spring uprising that ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak in ...

On Friday morning, the Egyptian protesters who've found themselves facing off against security forces in the most violent confrontation since the overthrow former President Hosni Mubarak as part of a ...

Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died at age 91, state media said on Tuesday. Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday ordered an urgent review into what she said were "serious information failures" ...

Egyptian activist and writer Adelrahman ElGendy spoke at Wolf Humanities Center on Feb. 15 about his participation in the Arab Spring and subsequent imprisonment in Egypt. ElGendy reflected on his ...

A British-Egyptian activist apologised Monday for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against ...

Residents seek safety inside a Kyiv metro station as Russia pounds Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Following the revolution that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, the country's economy is sagging — tourism has plummeted, unemployment is soaring and poverty is spreading. In ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As Arab Spring democracy uprisings spread across the Middle East, President Barack Obama’s response to the political unrest has been to voice support for people seeking ...

Correction appended: Aug. 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m. E.T. While violence rages in Cairo, the dysfunctional center of the Arab Spring, another unresolved conflict from that season of unrest in the region is ...