Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Gen. Mohamed Farid el-Tohamy’s swift and silent rehabilitation from corruption charges, critics say, signals a restoration of the old order after the military takeover.

The $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt pays for the kind of weapons that its military loves, and may give America more leverage than it seems.

How it comes down to the dead hand, the deadheads and the dead end.

A look at the backdrop to a recent increase in violence in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Readers respond to news articles and an editorial.

While justifying its intervention in politics as serving the will of the people, the Egyptian military has never been a force for democracy, living as a class apart, indifferent to ideology.

On Aug. 12, President Mohamed Morsi purged Egypt’s top generals to reclaim the political power that the military had seized after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Recent developments in Egypt have brought United States policy makers closer than ever to a confronting a situation that has haunted American relations with Egypt for more than 30 years: a government truly controlled by the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Gen. Sedky Sobhi argued that America’s presence in the Middle East and its “one sided” support of Israel had mired it in an unwinnable war with Islamist militants.

While much is obscure about Egyptian politics, the new president seems to be seeking a fine line between an Army accustomed to power and Islamists hungry for it.