Fear of new showdown on Egypt streets in ‘Friday of Martyrs’
By Lin Noueihed and Maggie Fick Supporters of Egypt’s deposed president will stage a “Friday of martyrs” of mass protests, risking more potential bloodshed to...
Middle East
UN chief asks Syria to allow speedy chemical attack investigation
By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the Syrian government on Thursday to allow U.N. inspectors to investigate the latest alleged...
Egypt’s Mubarak leaves prison for house arrest
By Maggie Fick and Tom Perry Egypt’s former autocrat Hosni Mubarak was flown from jail on Thursday in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old...
Syria opposition demands urgent UN probe into alleged chemical attacks
By Dominic Evans and Khaled Yacoub Oweis Syria’s opposition demanded on Thursday that United Nations chemical weapons inspectors immediately investigate a besieged rebel-held region hit...
Egyptian court orders Mubarak’s release
By Tom Perry and Maggie Fick DEPOSED Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as Thursday after a court ruling that jolted a...
(Updated) Opposition says as many as 1,300 killed in gas attack near Damascus
By Dominic Evans and Khaled Yacoub Oweis Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people – by one report as...
Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood’s leader
By Tom Perry and Shadia Nasralla Egypt’s army-backed government detained the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader on Tuesday after a bloody crackdown on his supporters, underscoring its...
Egypt’s Mubarak will be freed soon, lawyer says
Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail soon after a prosecutor cleared him in a...
Gunmen kill 24 Egyptian police in Sinai ambush
By Alistair Lyon and Asma Alsharif Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 24 Egyptian policemen on Monday in the Sinai peninsula, where attacks on security...
(Updated) Mursi supporters exchange fire with security forces in mosque
By Michael Georgy Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi exchanged gunfire with security forces inside a Cairo mosque on Saturday, three Reuters witnesses said....
