Egypt cracks down on Brotherhood
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A top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is arrested along with scores of the group's supporters.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip Sunday, ending 12 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said.
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Authorities on Saturday released 55 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who had spent up to 20 years in jail, a human rights group said.
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Egyptian police have arrested 72 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in nationwide dawn raids as the government escalated its crackdown against the country's main opposition movement.
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Hundreds of Egyptians defy a ban on public protests to call for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 23-year rule.
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Egyptian police detained 50 students from the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most powerful opposition group, in a renewed crackdown on the movement Saturday, a Brotherhood source said.
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Police arrested the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood's chief strategist and at least 140 others Thursday in a crackdown after a protest by uniformed students raised fears the Islamist political group is creating a military wing.
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Egypt criticized the U.S. Sunday after four Congress members met with a lawmaker from the banned Muslim Brotherhood, less than two months after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met the same politician.
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As Iraqis voted, Egypt was cracking down on political dissidents.
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TABA, Egypt - Dozens of Bedouin tribesmen have been detained on suspicion they supplied explosives for car bomb attacks at two Egyptian resorts that killed at least 34 people, officials said Saturday.    Israel's counterterrorism chief, meanwhile, said Israeli tourists in Egypt are still in danger and urged them to return home immediately...
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AWSEEM, Egypt -- Egyptian security forces barred voters from entering polling centers in opposition areas Monday during the first national elections since the U.S.-backed government of President Hosni Mubarak pushed through constitutional changes that analysts say were intended to keep the Muslim...
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The worst terrorist attack in Egypt in seven years was organized by a Palestinian angered by Israeli policies, the Egyptian government charged yesterday as it announced the first arrests
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Egyptian security forces detained 80  members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps  at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most  powerful political rival.
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Egypt CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces stormed the dormitories of the world's most prestigious Islamic university yesterday morning and arrested scores of student activists in a sweeping raid targeting the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. The raid followed a headline-grabbing demonstration at al-Azhar University in Cairo on Sunday, in which student members of the Brotherhood, the Islamist group that leads Egypt's opposition ...
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Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group is asserting itself as the main challenger to President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime, overshadowing secular reform groups a year after winning nearly one-fifth the seats in parliament.
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The United States said on Wednesday it was troubled by reports Egyptian police stopped people from voting in a parliamentary election this week in areas where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is strong.
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Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian infiltrators Sunday in the clearest sign of a warming of relations strained by a Palestinian uprising.