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The following are excerpts from Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth's Aug. 1 interview with Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, Egypt's defense minister, armed forces commander and deputy prime minister. Sissi: The Egyptian military does not make coup d'états. The last coup was in the fifties. There is a very special relationship that binds the Egyptians and their military. The dilemma between the former president and the people originated from the ideology that the Muslim...

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A l-Jazeera, the pan-Arabic news channel, has always battled charges of bias, both from government officials in the Middle East and from those in Washington. But on Monday, the bias claims came from an unusual source: other Middle Eastern journalists. In an unusual episode, al-Jazeera's reporters were kicked out of a news briefing held by the Egyptian military in Cairo after the shooting of dozens of supporters of Mohammad Morsi, the nation's ousted president. According to an...

CAIRO — A farmer in southern Egypt was arrested Saturday after putting the military chief's name and an army-style cap on his donkey, and eight people were detained elsewhere in the country for spraying anti-military graffiti. The arrests point to a long-standing taboo in Egypt against criticizing the country's powerful military, an offense magnified amid the ongoing crackdown on supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. The...

CAIRO — As the challenge posed to Egypt's new military rulers by the Muslim Brotherhood begins to fizzle, a semblance of normalcy is returning to the streets of a capital still reeling from the bloodiest eruption of unrest in the country's modern history. The traffic jams are back, the stores have opened and the cafes are full — at least during the day — as security measures choke off efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood to duplicate the protests that brought down two presidents in less than three...

SEDALIA, Mo. — As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged after him was neither racist nor disrespectful. It was a joke, they said, overblown by a news media that's hypersensitive to any possible slight against the nation's first black president. They said the hooting and hollering from the crowd that night was because of a...

From her protest tent outside the shuttered national parliament building, high school sociology teacher Neila Zoghlami wants to bring down the Tunisian government. She said the Islamist politicians elected after the country's 2011 popular revolution, which touched off the Arab Spring revolts across the Middle East, are trying to destroy traditions she holds dear: a secular society, women's rights and zero tolerance for radical Islamist violence. "The revolution...

CAIRO — Egypt's interim president on Tuesday appointed a prime minister and vice president, moves designed to lend an air of normalcy to the country even as indications mounted that the president is little more than a civilian face for military rule. The appointments came hours after the interim president, Adly Mansour, outlined a path to quick elections and a return to democracy after the coup last week that overthrew Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi. The plan...

BEIRUT — Arab leaders from Saudi Arabia to Syria rushed Thursday to congratulate Egypt for deposing its elected Muslim Brotherhood president, signaling a rare moment of unity in the divided and still overwhelmingly undemocratic region. The enthusiastic response to the Egyptian military's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi underscored the extent to which the Islamist leader had failed to win allies abroad, much as he had at home, alienating Egypt's traditional friends and foes alike with an often...

In his Jan. 27 Washington Forum op-ed, David Pollock accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "double talk" in Egypt. But his argument appears to be based on an assumption that our English Web site Ikhwanweb.com is a mere translation of our Arabic site Ikhwanonline . These Web sites are separate editorially, which means that Ikhwanweb.com doesn't simply translate Ikhwanonline but has a different set of editorial priorities and a different audience....

CAIRO — Egypt's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, told his wife and children he is in good health in his first conversation with his family since the military removed him from office and detained him in a secret location more than two months ago, one of his lawyers said Wednesday. The phone calls were an apparent gesture by the military as authorities prepare to put Morsi on trial on charges of inciting the killing of protesters during his year in office — though no date...

From her protest tent outside the shuttered national parliament building, high school sociology teacher Neila Zoghlami wants to bring down the Tunisian government. She said the Islamist politicians elected after the country's 2011 popular revolution, which touched off the Arab Spring revolts across the Middle East, are trying to destroy traditions she holds dear: a secular society, women's rights and zero tolerance for radical Islamist violence. "The revolution...

CAIRO — Egyptian police arrested the main English-language spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday along with other senior members of the group, all charged with inciting violence, state media and a security official said. Gehad el-Haddad had emerged has one of the group's most well-known faces, appearing regularly in foreign media to defend the Brotherhood's policies during Mohammed Morsi's year as president and following Morsi's July 3 ouster by the military. His...

Why do people claim that the Benghazi scandal is "phony"? To answer that, let's check in with the people fanning the controversy. They assembled Monday morning at the Heritage Foundation, convened by a conservative group to listen to Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and several experts on the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in the Libyan city last year. Some of those onstage posed questions about Benghazi that pointed to serious, if not scandalous, mistakes the government made before and...

CAIRO — A group of professionals and former army officers launched Monday a petition urging Egypt's military chief, who ousted the country's first freely elected leader, to run for president, highlighting the yearning for a strongman to take charge after nearly three years of turmoil. The campaign for Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is propped up by a pervasive personality cult, based on his success in uprooting an Islamist ruling elite. Still, there has been a faint pushback from...

When the Syrian army launched its sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21, the country's civil war was on a deep back burner in the Obama administration. Senior officials were in the middle of a policy review to determine how to respond to the bloody crackdown by the Egyptian military that had killed hundreds in Cairo one week earlier. On Aug. 27, a meeting of the "principals committee" of top national security officials agreed on a calibrated package of cuts and delays in arms...

CAIRO — When he was 22, Yehia Hamed joined a banned organization whose members often wound up in prison. A decade later, Hamed was the campaign spokesman for the winning candidate in Egypt's first democratic presidential election, going from persecuted to powerful with dizzying speed. The fall has come even faster. On Wednesday night, with a coup underway and troops pulling up outside the office where he presided as a minister, Hamed fled through the parking garage. Now Hamed and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders face what...

CAIRO — An Egyptian judge on Saturday named top security officials to testify in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak on charges related to the killings of around 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. The 85-year-old longtime autocrat's previous conviction for failing to stop the killings was overturned on appeals earlier this year, leaving still open questions about who ordered the use of deadly force against protesters and who carried out...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — More than six months ago, Dr. Mahmoud al-Jaidah was asked to step out of line as he transited through Dubai en route home to Qatar. He has been held ever since, allowed to visit his family once a month after a blindfolded trip from an undisclosed detention facility. UAE authorities have given no public statements on the case. But the family of the 52-year-old doctor has no doubt why he was detained: He has been caught up in the...