Hosni Mubarak for decades kept a cold peace with Israel and crushed political dissent at home until a 2011 protest movement drove him from power.

On my first day as an Obama administration deputy assistant secretary of state in November 2009, I sat down with my boss Jeff Feltman and his principal deputy Ron Schlicher for a meeting. “What are your priorities for your time here?” they asked me. I said that, among other things, I wanted to help the…

The former president's failing health had been detailed on social media by his son Alaa in recent days. Only friends and family will be permitted at his funeral, state media has said.

A funeral for Hosni Mubarack, the former dictator who ruled Egypt for three decades before being ousted in Arab Spring protests in 2011, took place in Cairo on Wednesday.