Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not. State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...

So much violence tonight. When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ...

In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life. It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...

At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca...

Let me start with a recap of the day's dramatic events. The Morsi regime continues to face devastating pressure. The Muslim Brotherhood's offices in Cairo were burned last night and this morning, and th...

It's almost midnight here in Cairo, and Tahrir Square is full---again---as are the streets outside the presidential palace and a place called Rabaa el Adaweyah Square. The latter is full of Muslim Brothe...

Raffaela has already posted on both the House of Representatives's and the Senate's versions of this year's NDAA--highlighting their differences with regards to Guantanamo detentions and transfers.

Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.  He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...