Two cops in Times Square were injured early Wednesday morning after a crazed woman pepper-sprayed them in an unprovoked ...

The latest Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip started after the Hamas-led surprise attack on 7 October. At least 1,400 have been killed since the assault was launched, with more ...

As protests rage again in Tahrir Square, Mike Giglio and R.M. Schneiderman on the mounting chaos. Mike Giglio R.M. Schneiderman Published Nov. 21 2011 8:40PM EST ...

As women became more visible in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the revolution, they also became targets of violence. Female protesters arrested in 2011 underwent humiliating virginity tests.

My rape and assault on Cairo's Tahrir Square in 2011 made headlines the world over, but women in Egypt continued to suffer abuse away from media attention, for years. This might be changing at last.

And in a case that drew international attention, a graphic video posted online in 2014 showed the mass sexual assault of a woman, also in Tahrir Square, during celebrations of President Abdel ...

“I didn’t know if I was going to live or die, and I didn’t know what do with that,” she said. Logan moments before she was assaulted in Tahrir Square by a mob of protesters in 2011.

Altercation as women gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square on International Women's Day, 2011. Photo: Sallie Pisch / DemotixIn its report on sexual harassment in Egypt earlier this year, Human Rights ...

Sexual assault, including rape, has been rampant at events in the square. It drew international attention during the political uprisings in 2011. But few of the perpetrators are ever brought to trial.

Between November 2012 and January 2014, advocacy group Nazra for Feminist Studies found more than 250 cases of assault at public gatherings, and a 2013 UN report found that 99.3 percent of ...

YouTube has refused a request from the Egyptian government to remove footage of a violent sexual assault in Cairo. The video of a naked and bloodied woman being dragged out of Tahrir Square after ...

In recent days, and repeatedly for the past few years, mobs of men violently attacked women and girls taking part in demonstrations in Tahrir Square. This time the attacks took place during June 3 ...