North Africa

Islamists look weaker in the country's new leadership, while the king continues to show his influence.

Cutting aid will cost Washington substantial influence in Egypt without achieving any gains for either American geostrategy or democratic prospects within the country.

After surviving four decades of challenges, the peace treaty is gaining new life as Israel quietly forges closer relations with the post-Morsi authorities in Cairo.

If the newly banned Brotherhood turns to violence, it will only validate a more thorough and perhaps permanent crackdown.

Islamist violence has chased off tourists, and now it threatens a key waterway -- and Egypt's entire economy.

The AKP sees a bit of its past in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's military ouster, and also a bit of its imagined future.

This two-part PolicyWatch discusses how the jihadist group ISIS has gained a foothold in Syria. Part I outlined the group's recent successes; this installment describes how it could face popular discontent if it attempts to enforce its socially conservative agenda or commit high-profile abuses. Despite its successes in Syria so

The governing Islamist party will emerge from recent setbacks as a much weaker player, and more obstacles are likely to come.

Under current conditions, suspending military assistance to Cairo would be counterproductive for U.S. interests and contractors alike.