Topic - egyptian government

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  Critics slam Obama's handling of Arab Spring

  Growing instability from Syria to Egypt highlights the Obama administration's failure to develop a consistent strategy for promoting democracy in the wake of popular uprisings in the region, analysts say.

• Lawyer: U.S. groups pawns in aid dispute

  Americans facing trial in Egypt because of the activities of their pro-democracy groups are caught in a dispute over aid between the U.S. government and Egypt, a lawyer representing the Americans said Tuesday.

• Egypt to try LaHood's son, others

  Egypt on Monday released the names of 19 Americans who face trial over foreign funding of activities of their nonprofit groups in Egypt, a case that has soured U.S.-Egypt relations.

• Embassy Row

  Washington-based election monitors denounced Egypt's military government for storming their offices in Cairo on Thursday, five days before the final vote for a new parliament.

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  PRUDEN: An evil wind in the Arab Spring

  We've "enjoyed" the Arab Spring, celebrated by one and nearly all. But if you're a Christian under the wheels of an Egyptian army truck, it looks a lot like winter.

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  Palestinian tinderbox meets its match

  W ill Israel survive? That question hasn't really been asked since 1967. Then, a far weaker Israel was surrounded by Arab dictatorships that were equipped with sophisticated weapons from their nuclear patron, the Soviet Union. But now, things are far worse for the Jewish state.

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  EDITORIAL: Fraying Mideast peace

  President Obama's Mideast policy has been marked by his typical rhetorical excess. "There will be perils that accompany this moment of promise," he said in a major speech in May about the Arab Spring. "But after decades of accepting the world as it is in the region, we have a chance to pursue the world as it should be." Recent events have shown that the "world as it should be" is rapidly transforming into the world we never wanted.

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  Attackers from Egypt kill 7 inside Israel

  Squads of gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel on Thursday, killing seven in an attack on buses, cars and an army patrol in one of the boldest attacks on the Jewish state in years, officials said. Israel said the Palestinian assailants came from Hamas-ruled Gaza and crossed through Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

• U.S., Egypt put off joint military drills

  Egypt and the United States are postponing a major military exercise this year as Egypt's military deploys troops to secure the Sinai Peninsula.

• Embassy Row

  The United States will hear "many voices" it doesn't like from Egyptians on a "loud and bumptious" march toward democracy, a top U.S. diplomat predicted this week at a Senate hearing on her nomination to serve as the next American ambassador in Cairo.

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  U.S. seeks help from Egypt in recapturing terrorists at large

  The Obama administration is engaged in a quiet and largely fruitless effort to persuade Egypt's security services to arrest scores of terrorists who were released or escaped from prisons during the country's recent revolution.

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  BLANKLEY: Juggernaut of Middle East change

  If you threw a dart at a map of the Middle East and North Africa, you almost couldn't miss hitting a spot where a historic event was unfolding.

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  Panel blacklists Egypt for religious oppression

  Egypt systematically oppresses Christians and minority Muslim sects, according to a congressional commission that placed a key U.S. ally in the Arab world on a blacklist of nations that routinely abuse religious liberties.

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  CORRECTION: Kerry misspoke about freezing Mubarak's assets

  A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry told The Washington Times that the senator misspoke Wednesday when he said the U.S. had frozen more than $30 billion of assets belonging to ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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  INNOCENT & BOUASRIA: Egyptian humiliocracy

  On Feb. 13, just 48 hours after the abdication of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's 18-member Supreme Military Council abolished the constitution, dissolved parliament and vowed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections within the year. Though promising, a series of procedural changes is not a revolution. For that to happen, Egyptians must refuse to submit to an unrepresentative elite promising state-delivered economic growth - essentially, a repeat of the Mubarak era.

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