As the U.S. State Department performs all sorts of semantic gymnastics to avoid defining the Egyptian army’s ouster of the country’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi as a coup, politicians in Turkey ...

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The Obama administration, faced with the question of whether the series of events in Egypt that led to the ouster of former president Muhammed Morsi was a coup or not, have decided not to make a final ...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to call the Egyptian military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi a "coup," in a press conference with reporters on Monday. That follows President Obama ...

ONE OF THE FEW things that has been clear about the tumultuous situation in Egypt this week is the plummeting prestige and influence of the United States. Anti-government demonstrators in Cairo's ...