Louisa Loveluck

The Trump administration has accused Iran of supporting “imminent attacks” on U.S. personnel in the region but provided no details or evidence.

Egypt's army defiant in the face of international condemnation as hundreds are confirmed dead in brutal state crackdown.

Just two days before security forces brutally cleared the pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo, demonstrators had waited nervously for the crackdown to begin.

The heightened rhetoric is raising concerns that Muslim Brotherhood leaders will ultimately be unable to control the radicalizing crowds they deployed to pressure the new government.

Left staggering and angry by a series of arrests, the once-powerful Muslim Brotherhood now faces the most critical period in its 85-year history, analysts say.

Egypt's military gave a 48-hour ultimatum to political forces to resolve the current crisis, after a day of demonstrations that dwarfed those during the country's initial uprising.

Egypt’s foreign minister is in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa today to diffuse a diplomatic standoff over access to the Nile River that had led President Mohamed Morsi to threaten his Ethiopian counterparts with the prospect of “war."

Cairo’s main forensic facility is dealing with more than 1,000 cases of suspected abuse of police force each year, but are under pressure to downplay the injuries.