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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Many Westerners, watching the revolution in Egypt, are wondering whether the outcome will be true democracy. Less often asked but equally important is whether Egypt can reform its economy in ways that ...

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - The ouster of president Mohamed Mursi may give Egypt's economy its best chance since the 2011 revolution to escape a downward spiral of currency weakness, capital flight and ...

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 ...

ASSIUT, Egypt – It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.” A ...

If we ignore the whimpers and whispers of all the back-room, closed-door deals going on in Mr. Morsi’s new regime, we may be all too surprised by the way things begin to play out in the region. T. S.