Mohamed Morsi

June 24, 2012: When Middle Eastern reality changed overnight - opinion

The Middle East teaches time and again that radical forces do not disappear on their own. Sometimes time actually strengthens them. Sometimes it grants them resources, legitimacy, and capabilities

SUPPORTERS OF Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi celebrate his victory at the election at Tahrir Square in Cairo, in 2012.
Illustrative image of former Hamas leaders Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar.

Hamas items, including Sinwar's battle plans on display at new intelligence center exhibit

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egyptian security forces arrest senior staff members of rights group

Egypt’s intangibles

Egypt’s intangibles: Morsi to Sisi to the pyramids to an LGBTQ refugee


Egypt's parliament convenes after more than three-year absence

The new parliament will be dominated by an alliance loyal to President Sisi.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Hamas member killed after Gaza tunnel suffers malfunction

The Gaza based Islamist group did not specify the circumstances of the accident but vowed to continue building tunnels and carry out operations against Israel.

Hamas shows new tunnels built in Gaza

Egypt's deposed Islamist president appeals death sentence

The Cairo criminal court sentenced Morsi to death over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak as well as life imprisonment for giving state secrets to Qatar.

Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi gestures after his trial behind bars at a court in the outskirts of Cairo

Egypt dismisses human rights report as politicized, biased

Human Rights Watch report issued year after Sisi took presidency, says his tenure had seen increased abuses, escalation in violence by armed groups and the gov't.

Abdul Fattah Sisi

Thousands of Israeli Arabs protest Morsi death sentence in North

The event, which took place in the village of Kafr Kana, featured speeches by Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah and his deputy, Kamal Khatib.

Islamic Movement followers protest Egypt's death sentence against Mohamed Morsi

Egypt executes six Islamist militants for killing of soldiers

Human rights groups had tried to appeal for a stay of execution, saying two of the defendants had been in custody at the time of the attack.

An Iranian policeman before a hanging [File]

Egypt: For Sisi, executing Morsi has its benefits and drawbacks

Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's death sentence could add fuel to an already raging Islamist insurgency.

Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi gestures after his trial behind bars at a court in the outskirts of Cairo

US 'deeply concerned' over Morsi death sentence

A US official called the court's decision "inconsistent with with Egypt's international obligations."

Mouhamad Morsi

Egypt's former president Morsi sentenced to death

Sentence will be referred to Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for any opinion before execution can take place.

Mouhamad Morsi

Report: Muslim Brotherhood plotted to kill Morsi in order to spark revolution

Group reportedly planned to shoot down helicopter carrying Morsi to trial or poison his food in prison.

Mouhamad Morsi