Since the removal from power of former president Mohamed Mursi on June 30, the Egyptian army has once again emerged as the leading political force in Egypt. The ensuing schism between the generals and ...

LONDON – LONDON (AP) — The widow of a wealthy Egyptian businessman suspected of involvement in Middle East espionage told an inquest into his unexplained death on Monday that her husband had expressed ...

Midnight in Cairo on the last day of August. In the Revolutionary Command Council headquarters in ex-King Farouk’s old pleasure house on the Nile, a phone rings. A big man with grizzled hair answers ...

I have always enjoyed spy novels by greats like John le Carré, Alan Furst and Eric Ambler. Yet truth can be stranger than fiction, and “The Angel,” by Uri Bar-Joseph, is a nonfiction work that ...

NASSAU, Bahamas — A Bahamas judge sentenced a U.S. citizen to 18 months in prison Wednesday and fined him for trying to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., authorities said. Gamal Nasser Rukab, 44, of Lake ...

The mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient ...

Prime Minister Menzies did not think very highly of Egyptians. “These Gyppos are a dangerous lot of backward adolescents, full of self importance and ignorance,” he recorded in his diary. He was just ...

Israel’s early days were pretty tough. It was the youngest kid in a rough neighborhood and endured endless bullying from its Arab neighbors. After fighting for its independence in 1948, it would face ...