President Obama hailed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's abrupt decision earlier today to step down, ending his 30-year-reign, as Egyptian armed forces took control of the country's leadership.

I was 14 when Mubarak became president in 1981, and 44 when an 18-day revolution, part of the historic Arab Spring, forced him out on Feb. 11, 2011. That day, I was on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio ...

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age of 91. Mubarak spent three decades in office before a popular uprising swept Egypt.

That outlandish-seeming $70 billion figure has now been dwarfed by a new estimate of the Mubarak family's fortune. On Saturday the Washington Post's investigative team wrote that they'd been privy ...

Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for almost 30 years until he was swept from power in a wave of mass protests in February 2011. Few expected that the little-known vice-president who was elevated to the ...

MORE THAN any other Arab ruler of his generation, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, who died Tuesday, had the opportunity to liberalize and modernize his country. His refusal to do so was one of the ...