Protestors set fires outside the gates of Egypt's presidential palace on Friday as Cairo endured a second straight week of demonstrations against Mohammed Morsi.
Normally, having a luxury hotel just steps from the cultural heart of a major international capital is great for business. Sometimes, it's an invitation for disaster, as the Semiramis InterContinental in Cairo found out last night.
President Mohammed Morsi declared a state of emergency in parts of Egypt, as two competing strains of violence merged to create a nation overrun by chaos.
Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution, but two years later, the fight looks like it's only just beginning.
Things are getting seriously intense for President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo this evening.
Tuesday brought yet another day of protest to Cairo's Tahrir Square, as Egyptians continue to fight back against President Mohamed Morsi's power grab — and with many more on the way, as the demonstrations are expected to grow throughout the night.
Egypt's parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni announced today that the lower house of the assembly will meet at noon on Tuesday. The announcement was made one day after Egypt's new President Mohammed Mursi ordered the assembly to reopen, defying the military council's decision to dissolve it last month.
There was another painful reminder of the dangers faced by women in Egypt after the story of another attack on a Western journalist that sound painfully similar to the sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan last year.
There are some great photos coming out of Egypt Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as thousands gathered in Tahrir to mark the anniversary and advocate more political reform.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians swarmed Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of protests that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, but the demonstrations show that the revolution is far from over.
Less than two hours after a truce between protesters and police was called, rocks and tear gas began flying again in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
After months of criticism for its perceived ineffectiveness and a weekend of lethal protests, Egypt's cabinet offered its resignation to the ruling army council yesterday, and the council has accepted it today, Al Jazeera reports.
Reports say as many as 33 people have been killed and more the 1,500 injured in violent clashes between police as government protests reignited in Cairo's Tahrir Square over the weekend.
Horrifying video and images are emerging of Egyptian security forces beating protesters in Cairo, as reports of military units firing into the crowds continue to spread.
Police and protesters are doing battle in Cairo, as large demonstrations of Islamist political factions call for democratic reform and the end of post-Mubarak military rule.
It started with activists looking to the Middle East for inspiration, now Occupy Wall Street actually plans to go to the Middle East: On Thursday it approved $29,000 to send 20 observers to Egypt's election two weeks from now.
Egypt is going to extreme measures to protect their former president
One poster depicts Mubarak and Qaddafi as stars of Brokeback Mountain
Hours after the segment aired, Logan was anchoring CBS News's bin Laden report
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