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What happens when the United States government participates meaningfully in toppling foreign governments in the name of spreading democracy? That behavior usually results in unintended consequences and often produces disasters.

At his office in downtown Cairo, defense lawyer Mahmoud Belal chain-smokes Marlboro Reds and gulps cups of bitter Turkish coffee - fuel to help him juggle constant phone calls and pleas for help amid a vast government crackdown on dissent.

Saudi Arabia's listing of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and the withdrawal of the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahrain ambassadors from Qatar signal a big geopolitical realignment in the Middle East.

Which Stock Markets Have Soared By Double-Digit Percentages in 2014? With the S&P 500 trading at just about the same level as it started in 2014, it has been hardly a gangbuster year for the U.S. stock market.

French photographer of Egyptian origins, Myriam Abdelaziz was born in Cairo, a city that would later be home to the Revolution of 25 of January in 2011.

Saudi Arabia has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, official Saudi television reported citing a statement by the Interior Ministry.

Susan 'Medea' Benjamin; leader of the terrorist support group Code Pink held a press conference at the Embassy of Egypt in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to protest her deportation from Cairo earlier this week.

Here we are again. Something bad happens sometimes. After declaring that we do not want to go to war, we are back to the warrior path.

Egypt is enhancing exploration terms and striving to repay nearly $5 billion it owes to foreign oil and gas producers as it struggles to prevent them fleeing to more promising prospects elsewhere in Africa.

CAIRO There's a lot anyone can learn from Jehane Noujaim's Oscar-nominated documentary "The Square," an examination of the 18-day uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

An Egyptian court ban on Hamas activities could push the increasingly isolated Palestinian Islamist movement into another battle with Israel, analysts say.

Egypt's army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi awards a military cadet a medal at the military college in Cairo, in this March 4, 2014 handout provided by Egypt's Ministry of Defence.

When three journalists for Al Jazeera's English service were brought into an Egyptian court Wednesday, they were held in cages, a shocking image that prompted reactions including "disturbing," "heartbreaking" and "rocked."

What happens when the United States government participates meaningfully in toppling foreign governments in the name of spreading democracy? That behavior usually results in unintended consequences and often produces disasters.

In the ideal scenario, the advance of democracy is simple and happy. A dictatorship falls, the people gain the right to choose their rulers, a modern constitution comes into being and a pluralistic civil society emerges.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain said Wednesday they have recalled their ambassadors from Qatar in the clearest move yet underscoring their apparent displeasure over Doha's support for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt and elsewhere the region.

A demonstrator holds up a photograph of Australian national and correspondent of Al Jazeera Greste during a protest.

Medea Benjamin of Codepink has tweeted that she had her arm broken by Egyptian police as she was detained while on her way to a women's conference in Hamas-led Gaza.

IT'S been a long time coming but on March 31 the UN's top court will deliver a binding judgment in the whaling dispute between Australia and Japan.

Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared Tuesday he cannot ignore demands that he run for president, in a looming election his supporters say he is certain to win.