(Updates number of burned houses, adds charges, details) CAIRO, May 12 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces arrested 59 Muslims on Saturday accused of setting fire to Christian homes and shops in ...

Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a monastery dating back to the 4th through 6th centuries AD in a desert valley long ...

In a late October crackdown, state security police arrested and tortured a Christian couple from a Muslim background. Police also arrested and mistreated 20 other Egyptian citizens, many of whom are ...

The Muslim Brotherhood was banned by an Egyptian court on Monday, forcing the group back underground completing its skyrocket rise and fall after former President Hosni Mubarak was removed from power ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Muslims and Christians set fire to each others' homes and shops near the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamady on Saturday, three days after a gunman killed six Coptic Christians in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sgt. Sarah Shendy waves to every person she sees on the job. While walking around Case Western Reserve University’s campus, she stops to say hello to a woman walking her dog. While ...

According to a report in Middle East Eye, the foreign ministers of the four countries held talks on the sidelines of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Egyptian police officers, soldiers, at site of major terror attack linked with Hasm Movement ...

Lawrence Wright is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower, which examines the history of al-Qaida. The founding members of al-Qaida are former members of the Muslim ...

Egypt is running short on common ground. The election of Mohamed Morsi as president was itself a near thing, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood official winning office with less than 52% of the vote over ...