CAIRO (AP) – Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any ...

The Salafi Al-Nour party won the second-most seats in the last parliamentary election and is now the only major Islamist political force allowed to operate in Egypt. The group supported Mohammed Morsi ...

CAIRO (AP) — The leader of Egypt’s largest Islamist ultraconservative party announced Tuesday he is forming a new political party, splitting from the Salafi Al-Nour, which has emerged as the country’s ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Many of Egypt's top business executives and leading firms have or had links to ousted President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party and the political elite. Ties were often ...

Mamdani arrived in Egypt as a college student with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge, and left soon after the Egyptian ...

CAIRO -- It was an unsettling moment. Ayman Nour, the politician who challenged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's bid for a fifth term, shed tears of joy in the presence of a visiting reporter. He ...

Egypt's new Free Current coalition spoke out against President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's government Monday in a rare act of dissent. Egypt has detained thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters and ...

CAIRO - The leadership of Egypt's ruling party stepped down Saturday as the military figures spearheading the transition tried to placate protesters without giving them the one resignation they demand ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party prefers that its squabbles ...

President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party is close to winning a two-thirds majority of seats in the final round of runoff elections in Egypt's parliamentary races. But the vote has ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood's party, leading in a parliamentary election, wants to boost tourist numbers to Egypt and will not take steps that would harm the industry, a party official ...