While Syria's civil war dominates the world's attention, less dramatic and telegenic events in Egypt retain the power to decide if popular uprisings will succeed in establishing a democratic alternative to tyranny in the Arab world.

Egypt on Tuesday opened its border with Hamas-ruled Gaza for a three-day period ahead of a major Muslim holiday this weekend, but imposed tight restrictions

An Egyptian court has sentenced 14 members of a militant Islamic group to death for attacks six years ago in the Sinai Peninsula.

Yesterday I told you about Israeli media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already made the decision to strike Iran's nuclear facilities within the next few weeks. Iran has now responded to those reports.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders reacted positively to President Mohamed Morsy’s Sunday decision to send Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff Sami Anan to retirement and abolish the supplement to the Constitutional Declaration.

Coptic Christian women are routinely victimized and forcibly converted by Muslims in Egypt, Miss Ghaly says.

In Egypt, this year marks the first Ramadan under the Muslim Brotherhood

The secular unrest in Egypt is growing, as are calls for another revolution – this time against the Islamic movement

But in recent weeks German authorities have been observing a new destination for Islamists leaving Germany: Egypt.

The Maspero Youth Union decided Saturday to postpone plans for a march for the following day to protest assaults on Copts in Dahshour village

The acting head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church has released details of the 17 candidates in the running to become the next pope

A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood occupies Egypt’s presidential palace, leaving many of the country’s Coptic Christians deeply anxious about their future.

BERLIN –– Germany's intelligence service fears that members of a radical Salafi group, banned in the country since June, could establish a new, dangerous German Salafi colony in Egypt, the German daily Die Welt cited security experts as saying.

ON THE ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER - The Egyptian military operation in northeastern Sinai, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Ikhwanonline, the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood, released a press statement Wednesday regarding Sunday's Sinai attack, calling for a reassessment of the Camp David treaty.

As poverty and insecurity escalate, the plight of Christians can only deteriorate.

Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi, has appointed his first cabinet, and guess what? It is crammed with officials from the old regime.

Recently, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aid Huma Abedin, as well as fellow Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the US Congress, of having ties with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and attempting to “infiltrate” the White House to push the Islamic group’s agenda

After decades of neglect and with the collapse of government authority in the past 18 months, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has become fertile ground for Islamic extremists.

Muslim and Coptic Christian leaders in the U.S. are calling on the Egyptian government to exclude any mentions of Islamic law or language that discriminates against minorities in its draft constitution.

"Down with the rule of the Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood" and "The Brotherhood are agents and betrayers"