Tahrir Square

There was a huge flag in Tahrir Square today with a Muslim crescent moon and a Christian cross inside it.

By early February, Obama seemed to catch up with the trend, at least as it played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Security services fanned out in a heavy show of force around the embassy and San'a's own Tahrir Square.

Clashes were continuing to flare into the early hours of Thursday morning, as fires continued to burn around Tahrir Square.

It was the only event that has come close to the atmosphere of Tahrir Square in Egypt, a sight which inspired him and his friends.

Once again, the protesters seized Tahrir Square from the security services -- but this time, they would not be driven out of the area.

I was in Tahrir Square from the 25 January. We were all calling to end the state of emergency and for political reforms.

Egyptians returned to Tahrir Square to celebrate one month since the start of protests that led to the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak.

And though supported by demonstrators from Tahrir Square, it has no real mandate.

First, they called for a march on the state television building a few blocks north of their encampment in Tahrir Square.

CNN: The press has labeled you a revolutionary but you were not in Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the revolution in February this year.

An Egyptian woman walks with her baby walks in front of a burnt vehicle in Tahrir Square shortly after President Hosni Mubarak resigned.

In Agouza, families with young children in tow marched into clouds of tear gas, toward the bridge over the Nile that led to Tahrir Square.

Reading The Yacoubian Building, it is not hard to understand why Tahrir Square filled with angry young people, demanding change.

Anti-government protesters continued to gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square and outside the Egyptian parliament.

I arrived in Cairo in late January and made my way through a military cordon to Tahrir Square.

And in Egypt, the army and young protesters are once more clashing violently in Cairo's Tahrir Square (see article).

Whereas the troops in Cairo's Tahrir Square would not fire into the crowd, Syrian soldiers are steeped in blood.

Word of the military council's decision late Tuesday was immediately rejected by tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square.

On July 8th hundreds of thousands of Egyptians again filled Tahrir Square, and a fervent few have again pitched camp there.

Rocks fly through the air as supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clash with anti-Mubarak demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

What do you think about the forced virginity tests performed by the Egyptian military on more than a dozen girls arrested in Tahrir Square?

It is, indeed, the sort of democracy that some people in Tahrir Square lost their lives asking for.

A youth uses a cameraphone to capture the aftermath of a teargas volley fired by police on protesters near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

I tried first to cross over to Tahrir Square, in order to see for myself whether the museum was safe.

"We're expecting them to attack us again, " Khalid Abdalla, a protester who said he hasn't left Tahrir Square in 48 hours, told the BBC.

How did the elite deal with that -- the so called political elite ? In front of Facebook, they brought the camels in Tahrir Square.

On his first day in office he pointedly walked to Tahrir Square to address the crowd, promising to uphold the aims of the revolution.

After several failed attempts to break through the security checkpoints and get to Tahrir Square, we sat in a cafe to rest.

The global proceeds of what I call the "Tahrir Square tax" would be, if levied at 10 per cent, about $5, 000bn.

In February he celebrated the Arab spring in Cairo's Tahrir Square, drawing rare praise from the German media.

FREEDOM is not for free, said a sign raised in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution that overthrew Egypt's government.

Demonstrators in Tahrir Square collect rocks in preparation for a battle with pro-Mubarak supporters.

Today, the police returned to the streets -- except in Tahrir Square, which the army will continue to patrol.

To protesters camped in Tahrir Square, who had spent days screaming for his departure, this was again far too little, too late.

The charge upon protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square today by pro-Mubarak mobs looked rather like a similar tactic.

After the conference, a few of us wandered off to Tahrir Square, where a massive demonstration had broken out.

On Saturday a few dozen hard-core protestors tried to occupy Tahrir Square.

In Tahrir Square in Cairo, crowds of new protesters thwarted attempts to remove the remaining anti-government demonstrators.

The army on Saturday pushed the protesters further back into Tahrir Square, freeing up a major intersection.

At Tahrir Square, some slipped out of position to join the roaring crowds flooding the streets.

The relationships between Tahrir Square and the parliament and Army and President are yet to be worked out.

From a distance, we could hear the rumble of the protest in Tahrir Square, punctuated by the sounds of bullets and screams.

AT FIRST, most thought the moment the protesters occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square had waited 17 days for had come.

Friday's protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square by tens of thousands was the biggest since then.

These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).

Protest leaders called for a million-man demonstration in Tahrir Square on Tuesday.

The group of activists broke away from a larger demonstration in Tahrir Square, from where Bethany Bell reports.

Indeed, protesters in Tahrir Square spray-painted "THE END" on an abandoned police transport vehicle.

The ensuing protests, many hard fought, won the demonstrators control of Tahrir Square and, ultimately, a taste of political freedom.

Mr Cameron was also the first foreign leader to go walkabout in Tahrir Square last month.

Waves of protesters are swarming Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for an end to military rule.

In Spain, protesters occupied the Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid, copying the earlier protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Then late one night, on the eve of a big protest, they went to Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt's uprising.

The Aussie is higher and stocks are also responding well to the end of protests in Tahrir square in Cairo.

The distrust of Washington proclaimed by many protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square and elsewhere will be ripe for Iranian manipulation.

Well, I think it's certain that this is not what the people in Tahrir Square were expecting to see.

As Mr Ganzouri addressed the nation, huge crowds again occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for an end to military rule.

It was among several dozen objects looted from the museum on Jan. 28, in the midst of the protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Protesters flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday morning, fueled by fury that Mubarak refused to resign.

Egyptian volunteer women scrub paint and graffiti off of a wall in Tahrir Square on Feb. 12 in Cairo, Egypt.

In Cairo, Egyptian soldiers and police have moved into Tahrir Square to end a sit-in by protesters demanding civilian rule.

IN TAHRIR SQUARE and Homs, Egyptians and Syrians have risked their lives to demand basic democratic freedoms.

A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday night in a corner of Tahrir Square near a KFC outlet.

Baron visited Tahrir Square from time to time during the crisis. The demonstrators were largely peaceful.

The Arab broadcaster also says a small group of Mubarak supporters have gathered near Tahrir Square.

The "Tahrir Square tax" would give the US president the moral high ground and restore the derailed American dream.

Above an Egyptian family sits by the Cairo metro in Tahrir Square on Jan. 30, the sixth day of protests against President Hosni Mubarak.

Protesters take family photographs on a destroyed vehicle in Tahrir Square.

It gave the dictators a free pass and put America on the wrong side of the barricades in Tahrir Square.

That makes sense, because the protesters' mark on Egypt cannot just be washed away like so much debris in Tahrir Square.

When young Egyptians crowded into Cairo's Tahrir Square, they wanted rights, not a caliph.

In Tahrir Square, some were repainting the edges of sidewalks as the traffic sped by.

Municipal workers brought out brooms and shovels to clean up rocks and broken glass around Tahrir Square.

I was in Cairo then covering the revolution at Tahrir Square and received a frantic call: Would I put the video online?

Scores of young men clashed with police in Tahrir Square, the Egyptian capital's main interchange.

Protesters here in Tahrir Square are angry at the slow pace of change in Egypt.

Rothschild Boulevard and the sites of other demonstrations are hardly Tahrir Square or Hama.

The traffic is back in Tahrir Square.

Tahrir Square erupts in cheers and later song and fireworks as people celebrate a hard-won victory.

Egyptian protesters and security forces fought near Cairo's Tahrir Square today.

The Pearl Roundabout traffic circle in Manama became Bahrain's own version of Tahrir Square.

But the real voice of the Muslim world had been heard "in Tahrir Square in 2011, not at Ground Zero in 2001" .

Egyptian troops have moved into Tahrir Square in the capital Cairo to remove protesters.

A large crowd has again returned to Tahrir Square after riot police pulled back.

Right now, the demonstrators in Tahrir Square are demanding their own freedom, not Palestine's.

Parsing reports of what happened in Tahrir Square.

An Egyptian man embraced an army commander in Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday morning.

An Egyptian solider kisses a child in Tahrir Square on Feb. 12, the day after President Hosni Mubarak resigned.

At entrances to Tahrir square, Cairo, young men held up signs saying "One million march. 10am. Down with Mubarak" .

He is the young Egyptian who occupied Tahrir Square, and awakened a sleepy population.

Cairo, Egypt: Demonstrators shout slogans against the government in Tahrir Square.

Fighting broke and moved towards the capital's central Tahrir Square and the Interior Ministry, according to officials.

The Egyptian army has more on its hands than running armoured cars over people in Tahrir Square.

On March 9th soldiers forcibly removed a remaining encampment of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

It is partly the diversity of the crowds in Tahrir Square that has inspired him.

Here, an 11-year-old boy receives stitches after being hit by a stone thrown by a supporter of Mubarak in Tahrir Square on Feb.

And there will be Tahrir Square, where people will come to touch freedom.

My second day in Cairo, I stopped for lunch after spending the morning in Tahrir Square.

Once again, Egyptians are pouring into Tahrir Square by the tens of thousands, and good for them.

Once again, huge numbers packed Tahrir Square.

Taking inspiration from the Egyptian protesters at Tahrir Square, Bahranis camped overnight at Pearl Square on Feb.

In Tahrir Square, expectations were high.

Ali is a young worker who restores ancient monuments and says he has been at many of the Tahrir Square protests.

Volunteers directed traffic, handed out food and even took care of lost property, copying the Tahrir Square protesters.

11Anti-government bloggers work on their laptops from Tahrir Square.

But Zuccotti Park is not Tahrir Square and America is not Egypt. It is not even France.

But Zuccotti Park is not Tahrir Square and America is not Egypt.

MENA also reported that Mr. Morsi will give a speech to crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday.

4A demonstrator waves his national flag in front of an army tank in Tahrir Square.

15A soldier watches as protesters pray in Tahrir Square.

On March 9th some 170 demonstrators who had insisted on staying in Tahrir Square were arrested by the army.

At Tahrir Square, many protesters see the government's moves as too little, too late.

Many of those in Tahrir Square, for example, had no political affiliation, or attachment to ideology.

As many as 50, 000 people gathered in Tahrir Square on Saturday.

"We went to Tahrir Square and now we don't have any customers, " laments Hany abd-el-Fattah, a tent-maker from Bab Zuwayla in Cairo.

Cairo, Egypt: Protesters gather in Tahrir Square around portraits of those who died during the demonstrations

A Libyan in Benghazi reacts at news of rebels claiming to have seized control of in Tahrir Square in Tripoli [EPA]

Tahrir square, Cairo: Revellers enjoy celebrations for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan

Revolution in Egypt; Tahrir Square, one year on