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Smoke rises from the security headquarters after a deadly explosion in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday's attack that killed several people and wounded tens comes a day after at least 51 people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi across much of Egypt. The region of southern Sinai, which includes the popular diving resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has been mostly quiet since a series of deadly attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo)

Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes

A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of the ousted president were killed in clashes with police. The attacks show a ...

Dozens of supporters of the militant group, Ansar al-Shariah, burn an American flag and shout anti-American slogans denouncing the U.S. violation of Libya's sovereignty in the abduction of Abu Anas al-Libi, in the center of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, the U.S. Army's Delta Force captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)

Nabbing of Libyan militant sparks fear of backlash

The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli. Ahmed Abu Khattala's ...

Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor

While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an ...

In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, right, meets with French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo)

Egypt's president makes first trip to Saudi Arabia

Egypt's interim president visited Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first foreign trip, highlighting a regional realignment spurred by the military ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Cairo. Underscoring the tightening of relations between the two regional powerhouses, Adly Mansour was greeted in Riyadh airport by the kingdom's ...

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. The strike comes exactly two weeks after al-Shabab militants attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall, a four-day terrorist assault that killed at least 67 people in neighboring Kenya. Al-Shabab has a formal alliance with al-Qaida, and hundreds of foreign fighters from the U.S., Britain and Middle Eastern countries fight alongside Somali members of al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Libya bristles at US raid that captured militant

A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The ...

Egyptian soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers block an entrance to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 a day ahead of expected mass demonstrations by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi timed to coincide with annual celebrations honoring the military, a combination many fear will lead to a new round of violence. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps — supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and backers of the military that deposed him — poured into the ...

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 file photo, a trampled poster of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is seen on the ground outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Arabic reads, "Yes for the legitimacy." Almost a quarter-century ago, a young American political scientist achieved global academic celebrity by proclaiming that the collapse of communism had ended the discussion on how to run societies, leaving "Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." In Egypt and around the Middle East, after a summer of violence and upheaval, the discussion, however, is still going strong. And almost three years into the Arab Spring revolts, profound uncertainties remain. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Arab world searches for democratic future

"For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability... We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." — President George W. Bush ...

Khaled Dawoud, spokesman for the liberal al-Dustour party, recuperates at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, a day after he was stabbed when he drove past a march organized by ousted president Mohamed Morsi supporters on a street near Tahrir Square. Even though the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, officially condemned the attack, the incident underlines the increasingly volatile political tension which has largely been played out in violent street clashes but now appears to be threatening to turn into vendetta attacks.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Stabbed Egyptian politician decries violence

An Egyptian politician who has opposed the military crackdown that has killed or jailed hundreds of Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi was surprised to find himself under a violent attack when he accidentally drove through a pro-Morsi protest march in Cairo. Khaled Dawoud, the spokesman for the liberal ...

Egypt journalist gets 6-month suspended sentence

An Egyptian military court released an award-winning journalist Saturday after giving him a six-month suspended sentence for endangering national security by spreading false information in his coverage of operations against Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a security official and a lawyer said. Ahmed Abu-Draa's lawyer called the lighter sentence ...

Democratic reforms in Gulf and Arab nations

A look at democratic reform efforts in Arab and Gulf nations since the Arab Spring erupted in December 2010: SAUDI ARABIA Saudi women were allowed this year for the first time in the Shura Council, an advisory body, and women will for the first time be allowed to vote and ...

A Muslim protester holds a banner featuring a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against the visit of Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry, scheduled for Oct. 11, outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Obama is canceling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill to get the nation’s business back up and running. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Analysis: US reliability questioned overseas

An unmistakable sense of unease has been growing in capitals around the world as the U.S. government from afar looks increasingly befuddled — shirking from a military confrontation in Syria, stymied at home by a gridlocked Congress and in danger of defaulting on sovereign debt, which could plunge the world's ...

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egyptian riot police fire tear gas at protesters

Egyptian riot police fired volleys of tear gas and locked down Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday as clashes broke out in a rare push by Islamist supporters of the ousted president to take control of the iconic square, leaving at least four dead. With lines of armored vehicles and barbed wire, ...

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt. A heavy crackdown has thrown the 85-year-old Brotherhood into an existential crisis. Once Egypt’s dominant political force, it is now reduced to keeping a campaign of street protest simmering to show it cannot be completely wiped out and must one day have a place again in the political system. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood keeps protests alive

Graffiti around the Egyptian capital proclaim the Muslim Brotherhood's call for new anti-military protests Sunday — dotting walls, light poles and signposts for miles down main avenues and near the presidential palace from which the group was ousted three months ago. It's an impressive show of survival, giving the image ...

In this image released by the Delegation of European Union in Egypt, Egyptian Minister of Defense, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with High Representative of the European Union, Catherine Ashton in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pedro Costa Gomes, Delegation of European Union in Egypt)

Egypt's Brotherhood vilifies army ahead of rallies

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday sharply criticized the military for ousting the country's Islamist president, comparing its rule to that of Adolf Hitler, Roman emperor Nero or Mongol conqueror Hulagu Khan — remarks likely to stoke tensions ahead of rival rallies by supporters and opponents of the former leader. The ...

Egypt: Disrespecting flag can lead to prison

Egypt's interim government decided Wednesday that insulting the flag and refusing to stand for the national anthem is an offense punishable by law. The decree follows a media fracas sparked by reports that an ultraconservative Islamist sitting on a committee to amend the constitution refused to stand for a moment ...

In this Tuesday Oct. 1, 2013 photo, supporters and opponents of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood throw stones during clashes in Tahrir Square where at least one photographer was beaten by unknown assailants. Both the military and its supporters and ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group are preparing rival rallies for Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 in Tahrir Square, the center for Egypt’s recent uprisings against successive leaders, raising the specter of renewed violent confrontations. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Egypt's Tahrir Square spruced up for rallies

Egypt's army-backed interim government is sprucing up Cairo's famed Tahrir Square ahead of planned celebrations in honor of the military this weekend. Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are also planning counter-rallies in the square, the center for Egypt's recent uprisings against successive leaders, raising the specter of renewed violent ...

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker smokes a cigarette inside a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days. Some rest on cots in the dank underground pathways, stretching out for a smoke. Others pass the time cleaning the small carts on wheels that are normally pulled through the tunnels carrying cement or consumer goods from Egypt. Since the summer, Egypt’s military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

AP PHOTOS: Gaza tunnels idle amid Egypt crackdown

Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days. Some rest on cots in the dank underground pathways, stretching out for a smoke. Others pass the time cleaning the small carts on wheels that are normally pulled through the tunnels carrying cement or consumer goods from ...

In this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 photo, an Egyptian couple walks on a bridge over the Nile River near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. The Nile is Egypt's primary source of water and most of the population live along its banks as it runs through the country north to south from the border with Sudan to the Mediterranean Sea. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

General says Egypt should keep to transition plan

Egypt's military chief called on the country Tuesday to adhere to the timetable of a political road map that envisions presidential elections by next spring, saying this would allow Egyptians to focus on challenges to national security. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was speaking during a ceremony to honor troops ahead of ...

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 file photo, Egyptians work at a bakery in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo, Egypt. Increasingly unaffordable subsidy programs pose a growing challenge across the Middle East and North Africa, with governments caught between demands by international lenders to scale back economically toxic handouts and fears of a popular backlash. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Mideast's old recipe for social peace backfires

Sudan's deadly street riots, provoked by a near-doubling of fuel prices, highlight a problem that has become critical across the Middle East — the subsidies that for decades have kept down the cost of basic needs for societies where poverty is rife. They pose a growing challenge to governments in ...

Keep the Iran sanctions, Netanyahu urges Obama

Despite soothing assurances from Iran's new leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored President Barack Obama on Monday to keep punishing sanctions in place against Tehran — and even tighten them if the Islamic republic advances its nuclear programs while negotiating with the U.S. Netanyahu nevertheless signaled he would not ...

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