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Equally important, Mubarak unleashed his security thugs against restive Bedouins and humiliated and insulted their leaders, a sin that deepened the community's resentment against the Cairo authorities.

Earlier that year, the US government had paid grants worth $65m directly to the NGOs concerned – circumventing the relevant Cairo authorities.

"There were more and more signs," said one employee who warned managers about increasing pressure from the Cairo authorities in the months leading to the trio's arrest in December 2013.

Not all the insurgents are believed to be from the region, but they have sought to appeal to local anger in the north of the peninsula, where the mainly Bedouin population has complained of neglect by Cairo authorities and where few have benefited from the famed tourist resorts in the more peaceful south.

CAIRO — Iranian authorities sent police officers into the streets to deter protests on Friday as Mir Hussein Moussavi, the principal opposition leader, said in a statement that he did not fear giving his life as "a martyr".

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities confirmed Saturday that a political coalition dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, the 84-year-old group that virtually invented political Islam, had won about 47 percent of the seats in the first Parliament elected since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

CAIRO — Libyan authorities have singled out Ahmed Abu Khattala, a leader of the Benghazi-based Islamist group Ansar al-Shariah, as a commander in the attack that killed the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, last month, Libyans involved in the investigation said Wednesday.

CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a prominent activist who had been critical of the country's Islamist president.

CAIRO -- Egyptian authorities increased security around churches on Monday as sectarian tensions mounted after a bombing in the coastal city of Alexandria that killed 21 and wounded nearly 100 leaving a New Year's Mass.

CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities pressed their crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies on Monday, arresting two more senior Islamist leaders and hinting at possibly declaring a state of emergency, even as the European Union's top diplomat was visiting Cairo and talking to both sides in an attempt to mediate an easing of the crisis.

CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities unleashed a ferocious attack on Islamist protesters early Saturday, killing at least 72 people in the second mass killing of demonstrators in three weeks and the deadliest attack by the security services since Egypt's uprising in early 2011.