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Egyptian soldiers are deployed in the area of the Rafah Crossing border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on May 21, 2013 as Egypt intensified efforts to secure the release of seven security personnel captured in the Sinai. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Egyptian army says Sinai secured

by Mahmud El Shafey | Apr 25, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Egyptian military announced on Thursday that it had eliminated “terrorism” from the restive Sinai Peninsula, contradicting statements made the same day by interim president Adly Mansour slamming terrorism in the same region and calling for...

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Free Syrian Army fighters take positions during what they say is an offensive against forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in Idlib July 17, 2013. Picture taken July 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Abdalghne Karoof)

Opinion: Does paying attention to Egypt mean ignoring Syria?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 26, 2013 | Opinion

In the first two weeks of Ramadan, 1,262 Syrians were killed. The news did not make headlines and people were not agitated. This makes us wonder if what’s happening in Cairo has killed the Syrian revolution or if the latter is fading into the background, similar to...

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Supporters of President Mohamed Mursi wave to a military helicopter passing over them during a protest in Alexandria to counter anti-Mursi protests elsewhere in Alexandria, July 2, 2013. Source: Reuters/Asmaa Waguih

Opinion: The army’s role in the Egyptian crisis

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 3, 2013 | Opinion

It is unlikely that we are seeing in Egypt that which we have seen in Pakistan; generals seizing power at every national political crisis. No more generals will rule Egypt. Even former presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar al-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak engaged in civil...

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An Egyptian supporter of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi holds his poster during a rally outside the Rabia el-Adawiya mosque near the presidential palace in Cairo, Saturday, June 29, 2013 (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Opinion: Mursi has not saved himself, his group or Egypt

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 1, 2013 | Opinion

Whatever the repercussions of today’s events in Egypt, history will write that the current president, Dr Mohamed Mursi, was unable to save either himself, the Muslim Brotherhood or Egypt. It will do so in the same way that history books tell of how the former...

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Secretary-general of the National Salvation Front, Dr. Ahmad Al–Bur’i. (Asharq Al-Awsat Photo)

National Salvation Front Leader on Mursi and the Boycott

by Mohamed Abdu Hassanein | Mar 6, 2013 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the date of the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Egypt grows, President Mursi’s opponents are coming under more and more pressure to take part, backing away from their decision to boycott the poll. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to one of the...