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40 killed in clashes after Egypt soccer match

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A man who lost a relative as Copts and Egyptian troops clashed on Oct. 9 holds a cross Oct. 10 in front of the Cairo morgue. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Selma on the Nile

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sam LaHood (left) looks on as his father, Ray LaHood, is sworn in as secretary of transportation in January 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Transportation)

State Department: Americans take refuge at Cairo embassy

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Embassy Row

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Egypt bans travel for U.S. official’s son, 9 others

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Egyptians set up an obelisk with the names of people who were killed during the 18-day uprising as they marked in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday the first anniversary of the start of the revolt that forced President Hosni Mubarak from power. (Associated Press)

Massive protests greet anniversary of Egypt’s revolution

By Mike Elkin - Special to The Washington Times

"Nobody can force me" to sit with Israelis, says Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat (left). He and Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie appeared for a news conference last year in front of a banner that reads, "Islam is the answer." (Associated Press)

Muslim Brotherhood walks fine line

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

** FILE ** Egyptian Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense, Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison, File)

Egypt’s ruler partially lifts emergency laws

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Female People's Assembly members from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party attend the chamber's opening session.

Islamist-led legislature opens

By Hamza Hendawi and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliament holds session

By Hamza Hendawi and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Jan. 15, 2010, file photograph, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon. Mashaal won't seek re-election, Hamas announced Saturday, paving the way for a leadership contest and possible struggle over the ideological direction of the Islamic militant group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Longtime Hamas leader Mashaal asks to quit

By Ibrahim Barzak and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

** FILE ** Protesters hold placards depicting Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, one encircled in a noose, at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt’s Islamists win 75 percent of parliament

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

** FILE ** An Egyptian man votes on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at a polling center in Qalyobeia, Egypt, during the third round of the country's first parliamentary elections following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. (Associated Press)

Minister: Egypt open for business

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

UNDER SIEGE: Mona Hanna says she fears for the future of her town, Abo Korkas, Egypt. She and nine other families fled their homes last year after armed Muslim men set her house afire. (Sarah Lynch/Special to The Washington Times)

Coptic Christians in Egypt fear Islamists’ rise

By Sarah Lynch - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Egyptian Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense, Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison, File)

Egypt’s military ruler warns of ‘grave dangers’

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati attend the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world in Beirut on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrian legislator defects to protest crackdown

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Lawmaker leaves country to oppose Assad’s regime

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter leaves a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. He says Egypt's political groups, including the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, told him they want to assume full authority over state affairs, including the military budget, despite attempts by ruling generals to retain some power. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt’s radical Salafis approach secular rivals

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 photo, seen through a gun slit, trucks with goods destined for Gaza wait to be unloaded on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Each day, dozens of trucks move food, consumer products and industrial materials into the Gaza Strip at this heavily fortified crossing, in an odd arrangement that has turned Israel into a key supplier to a territory governed by its bitter enemy Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Gaza unlikely trade partner with Israel

By Josef Federman ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

Briefly: Middle East

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES