The United Arab Emirates has threatened to destabilise Tunisia after the country’s leadership turns out not to serve the interests of Abu Dhabi, a senior Tunisian source is telling the Middle East Eye. Algerian officials [ More … ]
Two 17-year-old Israelis have been convicted of the murder of the Palestinian youth Mohammad Abu Khdair, abducted and burned to death in Jerusalem in 2014. The verdict on the third suspect, a 31-year-old Israeli man, [ More … ]
In light of the EU’s recent jewish settlement labelling guidelines, Israel syas that it is suspending contact with EU officials involved in what they call peace efforts with the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered [ More … ]
Iran has changed the way in which it offers contracts to foreign energy companies in an attempt to attract up to $30bn of new investment. The terms of the new oil contracts will be more favourable to [ More … ]
Thousands of people attended the funeral of the leading pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer, Tahir Elci, who was shot dead in Turkey’s south-eastern city of Diyarbakir. Elci was killed on Saturday as he made an appeal [ More … ]
Egypt says there is a 90% chance that hidden chambers will be found within King Tutankhamun’s tomb, based on the preliminary results of a new exploration of the 3,300-year-old mausoleum. One prominent researcher, Egyptologist Nicholas [ More … ]
Turkey says it has received the body of the Russian pilot that was killed after his plane was shot down on the Syrian border. Lt Col Oleg Peshkov will be given back to Russia, Prime Minister [ More … ]
A drive-by shooting killed four Egyptian police near an historic site on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday and a military helicopter crashed due to a “sudden technical failure” northeast of the capital, officials said. [ More … ]
Russia has strengthened its anti-aircraft defences in Syria by moving a cruiser towards the coast and deploying new missiles at its main base. The Moskva cruiser’s long-range air defence system provide cover for Russian aircraft. [ More … ]
Ken Loach, Brian Eno and Frankie Boyle are among dozens of actors, writers, academics and trade union chiefs who have signed a letter telling David Cameron to keep British forces out of Syria. The open [ More … ]
Wounded survivors of Paris attacks gathered Friday at a remembrance ceremony in Paris. President François Hollande vowed to ‘defeat this enemy’, telling traumatised nation: ‘They have a cult of death, but we have a love [ More … ]
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Russian president’s criticism of his country’s downing of a Russian warplane on Tuesday is “unacceptable”. He also warned Vladimir Putin not to “play with fire” over the [ More … ]
A secret document prepared for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan reveals that the United Arab Emirates is losing faith in the ability of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to serve the Gulf [ More … ]
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch. Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the country’s [ More … ]
Turkish authorities have detained a Belgian man of Moroccan origin charged with the suspicion that he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State in attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, reports Dogan news [ More … ]
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