Nasser (c) with Khrushchev (2l) and Ben Bella (l) in Aswan, Egypt, in December 1964 - Getty As Baghdad correspondent for The Telegraph after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I hired “Colonel Ahmed”, an ...

With street mobs, intrigues, tears and tanks, Egypt’s two strongmen fought the battle for power. On one side was President Mohammed Naguib, who proposed to stay in power by counterrevolution: ...

Among the dozen passionate young army officers who preside over Egypt’s 19 millions, none could be more temperamental or more troublesome under stress than sleek, slight Major Salah Salem. One of the ...

The Egyptian Premier, Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, addressing a crowd of 50,000 in Cairo, threatened Israel with an “explosion” in the Middle East, and indicated that Egypt does not intend to ...