Topic: Middle East (page 41)

Anti-government protesters sit and lie inside the tracks of an Egyptian Army tank, both to prevent them from moving and to shield themselves from the rain, at the protest site opposite the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Salah Nasrawi, Hadeel Al-shalchi
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, gestures as Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, right, looks on during a joint press conference at Prime Minister's residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Biden met with Pakistan leaders as part of American efforts to get Islamabad to intensify the fight against Islamist militants sheltering along the Afghan border. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

Asif Shahzad
An anti-government demonstrator holds an Egyptian flag in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (AP)

Egypt protesters pack square as deadline arrives

Hamza Hendawi
Anti-government protestors rest in a burnt out vehicle in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Emilion Morenatti) (AP)

Egypt protests cost $310 million per day

Associated Press
In this image from Egyptian state television aired Tuesday evening Feb 1 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak makes what has been billed as an important speech. Mubarak has faced a week of public and international pressure to step down from the role he has held for 30 years, culminating in a day when a quarter-million people turned in the largest protest yet to demand his ouster. (AP Photo/Egyptian state television via APTN) EGYPT OUT TV OUT (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro

What I'm fighting for

Lauren E. Bohn - Sarah Lynch
FILE - Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, prior to a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, unseen, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Egyptian state TV said Saturday Jan. 29, 2011 that the intelligence chief has been named vice president of Egypt. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File) (AP)

Maggie Michael
A suspected pro-government supporter, is carried away by anti-government protestors, in Cairo's main square, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Egyptian army tanks and soldiers moved to end violence between anti-government protesters and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's central square on Thursday after standing by for nearly a day as the two sides battled with rocks, sticks, bottles and firebombs. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Portraits of violence: Visualizing Egypt collapse

Adam Clark Estes
French photojournalist from SIPA Press agency Alfred Yaghobzadeh is being treated by anti-government protestors after being wounded during clashes between pro-government supporters and anti-government protestors, in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian military has started Thursday Feb.3, 2011 rounding up journalists, possibly for their own protection, after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been attacking anti-government protesters. (AP Photo) (AP)

Associated Press
Pro-government demonstrators, bottom, clash with anti-government demonstrators, top right, as a palm tree burns from a firebomb, in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo's main square all day Wednesday, raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other in scenes of uncontrolled violence as soldiers stood by without intervening. Government backers galloped in on horses and camels, only to be dragged to the ground and beaten bloody. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Raphael G. Satter
An Egyptian Muslim cleric cries in front of on army tank in Tahrir, or Liberation square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Several thousand supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, clashed with anti-government protesters Wednesday as Egypt's upheaval took a dangerous new turn. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Maggie Michael
President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Egypt in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Matthew Lee, Bradley Klapper
Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can be seen hanging from traffic lights, as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

From the Pundits: Egypt's explosive uncertainty

Peter Finocchiaro
General view of anti-government demonstrators gathered at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 2, 2011. Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, throwing petrol bombs, wielding sticks and charging on horses and camels, fiercely attacked demonstrators in Cairo on Wednesday after the army told protesters to clear the streets. Anti-Mubarak protesters hurled stones back and said the attackers were police in plain clothes, a charge the Interior Ministry denied; the Egyptian government rejected international calls for the leader to end his 30-year-rule now. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) (Reuters)

LIVEBLOG: America urges Mubarak to step down

Adam Clark Estes - Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's supporters scuffle with anti-government protesters near the Tahrir (Liberation) Square, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Battle in Tahrir: Could this become a civil war?

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Sarah El Deeb
Young girls wave Egyptian flags atop an armored vehicle just outside Tahrir or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

Maggie Michael

Adam Clark Estes
A veiled woman holds a poster calling for President Hosni Mubarak to go, in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

AP/Salon
FILE - In a Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. More than a quarter-million people flooded Cairo's main square Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 in a stunning and jubilant array of young and old, urban poor and middle class professionals, mounting by far the largest protest yet in a week of unrelenting demands for Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (Susan Walsh)

Mubarak speech sidesteps blame

Ethan Sherwood Strauss
The crowd gathers in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (Khalil Hamra)

Millions march in Egypt, Mubarak responds

AP/Salon
People demonstrate in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Right: Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen: Egyptian democracy "a nightmare"

Alex Pareene
An Egyptian man surveys the fire damage at a burned and looted police station, in the Darb al Ahmar neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Egypt police loot and shoot in the name of chaos

Adam Clark Estes
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looks on during a ceremony to set the corner stone of the future Palestinian Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Abbas is on a three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres). (AP)

Associated Press
King Abdullah II of Jordan, center, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, review the Bedouin guards of honor during an official welcoming ceremony prior their talks, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud) (AP)

ALERT: Jordan's king dismisses government

AP/Salon
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