More than 300 reporters for Islam Online camped out in their Cairo offices on Wednesday in protest at alleged efforts by the management in Qatar to assume editorial control of the Islamic website. The Qatari-based website, which has its editorial offices in Egypt, was founded by popular exiled Egyptian cleric Yusef al-Qardawi and posts news items as well as sections ...

A 2-year-old lion, emaciated and barely breathing, is found in a tiny cage off a Beirut highway. Monkeys are hauled through the dark tunnels of Gaza, bound for private zoos. Rare prize falcons are kept in desert encampments by wealthy Arab sheiks. The trade in endangered animals ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two red granite statues in Luxor, one of Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III who reigned about 3,350 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said Tuesday. The second statue was of the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom Thoth, Zahi Hawass said. At four meters high, it is one of the biggest statues of the ...

Egypt's president appeared on state television talking with his doctors Tuesday in his first appearance since an operation in Germany 10 days earlier, quelling speculation over the state of his health. The broadcast followed a swirl of rumors and speculation over the 81-year-old president's health due ...