[caption id="attachment_147680" align="alignright" width="157"] A protester carries Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, who was killed during a protest in Cairo on Saturday.[/caption] Cairo (CNN)A bleeding woman collapses on the ground. A police officer totes a weapon behind her. It's an image that spread rapidly on social media -- and fueled furor among activists ...

Iranian university students and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have staged a rally to condemn Egyptian police's violent crackdown on protesters. Hundreds of students coupled with members of various NGOs gathered outside Egypts interests section in Tehran on Thursday, chanting slogans in condemnation of Egyptian police brutality against civilians....

Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa-Eldin says the army-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood should pursue reconciliation. Bahaa-Eldin, who has been trying to encourage both sides to compromise, on Tuesday called for a political framework to help Egypt out of the ongoing unrest. "Ultimately this country needs to move towards a framework ...

(Reuters) - Egypt's interim prime minister was assembling his cabinet on Sunday to lead the country under an army-backed "road map" to restore civil rule, with peace having returned to the streets after the military removed President Mohamed Mursi. Hazem el-Beblawi, a 76-year-old liberal economist appointed interim prime minister last week, is tapping ...

[caption id="attachment_110868" align="alignright" width="158"] Riot police attempt to break open the entrance of the al-Azhar University Campus during clashes with female university students, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, in Cairo's Nasr City district, March 19, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH ...

Many people believe in the McLuhan's idea that media has no independent identity and taking media would result in taking culture and ideology. McLuhan states: Media is the same as message. If we accept the viewpoint, it will impose a neutral and inactive position to societies against anti-cultural attacks by the West throughout the media. By the way,...

[caption id="attachment_91229" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran's Deputy Minister for Arab and Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian attends a news conference in Moscow, September 10, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian described the heavy verdicts handed to Muslim Brotherhood members and leaders ...

A senior Iranian cleric has denounced life sentences for nearly 700 people in Egypt, saying such measures would make it easier for the Israeli regime to commit atrocities against Palestinians. Speaking in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi slammed an Egyptian courts decision to execute 683 members of the Muslim ...

After less than a year of exceptional Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement, the events of June 30, 2013 ruptured this relationship. Similarly, when Egyptian and Iranian statesmen began to decrease tensions and a thaw in relations resulted, events evolved to return things to square one. As these scenes, by and large, have been repeating over and over for ...

Iran on Tuesday warned that the 683 death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court to suspected Islamists could add to a deteriorating situation in the country. The verdicts passed on Monday in Cairo amid a crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi were condemned by the United States and the United Nations. In remarks ...

[caption id="attachment_93882" align="alignright" width="223"] Relatives and families of members of Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi react after hearing the sentence, in front of the court in Minya, south of Cairo, April 28,2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim ...

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property. The group is among over 1,200 supporters of Mr Morsi on trial, including senior Brotherhood members. Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Two Egyptian army officers were killed on Wednesday in a shootout with militants, security sources said. The exchange of gunfire erupted after an army colonel and brigadier general took part in a raid on a militant safehouse where the men were hiding in Qalubiya province, north of Cairo, the sources said. Security sources ...

Egypts military-backed government has jailed nearly 16,000 people since July 2013, when President Mohamed Morsi was ousted, a report says. Citing senior security officials, the report released by the Associated Press said that about 3,000 Muslim Brotherhood members were among the detainees who have been put behind bars since the ouster of Morsi over ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and others Friday, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison. A Saudi Interior Ministry statement said King Abdullah approved the findings of a committee entrusted with identifying extremist ...

NEW YORK CITY The work of Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat, whose photographs, films and video installations deal with gender, politics and religion in the Islamic world, has been heralded by art critics and collected by major museums. Although Neshat has lived in the United States since the 1970s, her work has most often been focused on the lives ...

Cairo Prosecutors Sunday accused deposed president Mohamed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guards as part of a plot to destabilise Egypt, at the second hearing of his trial for espionage. The trial, one of three that are under way against Morsi, is part of a relentless government crackdown targeting him and his Muslim Brotherhood ...

A senior al-Qaeda figure with close ties to the terrorist groups current leader has left Iran, where he had lived for years after fleeing American forces in Afghanistan in 2001, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials. Thirwat Shihata is the latest suspected terrorist to leave Iran, raising questions about the countrys motives ...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threw his weight behind a presidential bid by Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, voicing hope that ties would strengthen after the election. Russiais looking to take advantage of strains between Cairo and Washington, which has withheld some of its annual aid toEgyptafter ...

The US has mishandled the post-Arab awakening crisis in both Syria and Egypt, former US national security adviser Stephen Hadley said Tuesday. Hadley, who served in the White House under former president George W. Bush, spoke in Tel Aviv at the Institute for National Security Studies annual international conference. He listed four struggles that have ...