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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second right) welcomes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for the opening session of the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran on Aug. 30, 2012. (Associated Press/Iranian Presidency Office)

Egypt leader slams Syrian regime during Iran visit

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

**FILE** Egyptian border guards patrol Aug. 6, 2012, near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. President Mohammed Morsi is using former jhadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say. (Associated Press)

Egypt: No halt to Sinai drive against militants

Associated Press

Berlin show to mark centenary of Nefertiti find

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Secretive sect worries even Islamic extremists

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. Israeli officials said Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, they have voiced objections to what they say are improper Egyptian tank deployments in a volatile desert area near the Israeli border. (AP Photo, File)

Israel says Egypt violating peace treaty in Sinai

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Newly-appointed Egyptian Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

State Dept. says it’s not involved in Egyptian military changes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Thousands of supporters raise a poster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as they celebrate in Cairo’s Tahrir Square late Sunday after Mr. Morsi retired the defense minister and chief of staff without the military’s objection. (Associated Press)

Morsi shakes up Egyptian military, takes powers it denied him

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (right) swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (left), in Cairo on Aug. 12, 2012. (Associated Press/Egyptian presidency)

Egypt military signals support for president

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (right) swears in the newly-appointed defense minister, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt’s president retires defense minister

By Hamza Hendawi and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Egyptian Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi (left), President Mohammed Morsi (center) and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sami Annan attend a medal ceremony at a military base east of Cairo last month. The president ordered the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Egypt’s president orders military retirements

By Hamza Hendawi and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Palestinians walk toward the Egyptian border crossing with Gaza, which temporarily has been reopened but only to allow the passage of Palestinians back to Gaza, in Rafah, Egypt, on Friday Aug. 10, 2012. (AP Photo)

Egypt: 7 suspected militants killed in Sinai

By Ashraf Sweilam - Associated Press

**FILE** Egyptians stand Aug. 5, 2012, outside the El Arish hospital, after an attack which Egypt and Israel blamed on Islamist militants from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. (Associated Press)

Activists: Israeli forces enter Egypt for migrants

By Mark Lavie - Associated Press

World Briefs: Clear skies reveal messy scope of Philippines flood

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

An Army honor officer wipes his eye Aug. 7, 2012, in Cairo at the funeral of one of 16 soldiers killed in an attack over the weekend by suspected militants in Sinai. Mourners prayed for the dead at a mosque in an east Cairo suburb before the coffins, wrapped in Egypt’s red-white-and-black flag, were taken to a nearby square where a military funerary ceremony led by Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi was held. (Associated Press)

Egypt airstrikes target militants in Sinai

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 6, 2012 image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, speaks to the media as Field Marshal Gen. Hussein Tantawi, second right, listens during their visit to El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt hits Sinai to crack down on terror

By Nasser Najjar - Special to The Washington Times

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (right) speaks to the media as Field Marshal Gen. Hussein Tantawi (second from right) listens during their visit to El Arish, in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.
(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egyptian president fires intelligence chief

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Angered by the attack Sunday evening that left at least 16 on Egyptian soldiers dead, residents of Rafah protest by burning tires in the road on the outskirts Rafah, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo)

Egypt buries soldiers slain in border attack

Associated Press

Egyptian border guards patrol Aug. 6, 2012, in Rafah, Egypt, near the border with Israel. Egypt deployed helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula to hunt for the militants who killed at least 16 soldiers the previous day, when the troops at a checkpoint were having the traditional meal at the end of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Associated Press)

Egypt military vows to hunt down Sinai attackers

By Amy Teibel and Ashraf Sweilam - Associated Press

**FILE** An Israeli soldier examines the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants drove it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt at an Israeli military base on Aug. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

Egypt military vows to hunt down Sinai attackers

By Ashraf Sweilam and Amy Teibel - Associated Press

World Briefs: Gunmen kill guards at border checkpoint

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES