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Smoke rises Monday after an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt has been mediating indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials. (Associated Press)

Cease-fire urged as Gaza explodes

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Israel bombing kills militant in Gaza Strip

By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, center, and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra acknowledge each other at a joint news conference at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama warns Israel, Palestinians of further escalation

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A woman is rescued after her family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday. Israel says it is using precision weapons to minimize “collateral damage” to civilians in the course of taking out Hamas infrastructure. (Associated Press)

Israel kills another top Hamas militant

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pope Tawadros II, 60, sits on the throne of St. Mark, the Coptic Church's founding saint, wearing the papal crown, during an elaborate ceremony lasting nearly four hours and attended by the nation's Muslim prime minister and a host of Cabinet ministers and politicians, in the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Sami Wahib)

Egypt’s new Coptic pope enthroned

Associated Press

** FILE ** Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egyptian government heading toward autocracy, an opposition leader says

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Smoke rises after an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Israel, Egypt talk Gaza cease-fire as strikes widen

By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub - Associated Press

An Egyptian looks through books and school bags that were strewn along the tracks at the scene where a speeding train crashed into a bus carrying children to their kindergarten, killing at least 47, officials said, near Assiut in southern Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. The bus was carrying more than 50 children between 4 and 6 years old when it was hit by a train near al-Mandara village in Manfaloot district in the province of Assiut, a security official said, adding that it appears that the railroad crossing was not closed as the train sped toward it. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)

Egypt: Train hits school bus; 49 children killed

By Mamdouh Thabet - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas aims at Jerusalem, Israel calls reserves

By Josef Federman and Karin Laub - Associated Press

Israeli security personnel take cover in Kiryat Malachi on Thursday after three Israelis were killed in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. The escalation in warfare on both sides threatens to deepen a bruising Israeli air, naval and artillery offensive against Palestinian rocket squads. (Associated Press)

Israel braces for ground war

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

President Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama urges Israel, Egypt leaders to ‘de-escalate’ Gaza violence

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration Morsi by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PIPES AND FARAHAT: Morsi could discredit Muslim Brotherhood rule

By Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat

Middle East Briefing: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood slams Israel over Gaza strikes

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Egyptian Muslims pray Nov. 9, 2012, during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Thousands of ultraconservative Muslims rallied in the Egyptian capital, demanding the country's new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law, or Shariah. (Associated Press)

Egyptian Islamists rally for Shariah law

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Head of a man, cast bronze, 1st century B.C. to 2nd century A.D. (Photo courtesy Arthur M. Sacker Gallery)

An Arabian road show

By Roland Flamini - Special to The Washington Times

GORDON: The next Benghazi

By J.D. Gordon - The Washington Times

Briefly: Police officer wounded in Sinair attack

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Egyptians relax outside a Cairo cafe. Crowds often fill cafes and shops that stay open late and the government is facing a backlash over forcing stores and restaurants to close earlier. Officials say the nation has to save electricity, but they also seem intent on taming a population they see as unruly. (Associated Press)

Egyptian night owls squawk at curfew

By Maggie Fick - Associated Press

Acting Coptic Pope Pachomios (center) displays the name of 60-year-old Bishop Tawadros, soon to be Pope Tawadros II, during the papal election ceremony at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on Sunday. Egypt’s ancient Coptic Christian church chose a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God. (Associated Press)

Egypt’s Coptic Christians pick Tawadros as new pope

By Aya Batrawy and Maggie Fick - Associated Press

Acting Coptic Pope Pachomios (center) blindfolds the boy elected to draw the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice during an elaborate papal election ceremony at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church chooses new pope

By Aya Batrawy and Maggie Fick - Associated Press