Photo: Reuters Rafah border area inhabitants are upset after the Egyptian army has been pumping large volumes of Mediterranean Sea waters into the buffer zone that it began building two years ago, along 14 kilometers of the [ More … ]
In the report “Look for another homeland” the international Human Rights organisation Human Rights Watch focus on the illegal evictions of the inhabitats of Rafah in Egypt. “Between July 2013 and August 2015, Egyptian authorities [ More … ]
The Egyptian military has begun to pump water from the Mediterranean Sea into underground smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza Strip with Egypt, security officials and eye witnesses said. The operation is a cooperation between Israel [ More … ]
The Egyptian army may have broken international law by forcibly evicting more than 3,000 families in the Rafah area, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports. The 84-page report, “Look for Another Homeland,” documents the Egyptian government’s [ More … ]
In an opinion editorial the New York Times is asking: What went wrong in Egypt? “The world got an alarming look at Egypt’s bumbling war against extremism this week after a military helicopter attacked a [ More … ]
Amid the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 a senior prince in the United Arab Emirates allegedly plotted a palace coup to overthrow the country’s leaders and transform the autocratic Gulf state into a constitutional monarchy. [ More … ]
The increased fighting in Yemen, between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the exiled President AbdRabbu Mansour Hadi, has caused an acute shortage of supply at the major hospitals in several cities. The main hospital in the [ More … ]
At least 42 soldiers were allegedly killed in a Syrian air raid in Daraá, including three supposed Israeli officers, reported Fars News, an official Iranian news agency, on Saturday. According to the report, military sources [ More … ]
A week after reports of destruction by Islamic State militants in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, fighters severely damaged the Temple of Baal there, one of the oldest and culturally significant in the [ More … ]
The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned the British ambassador to object to his comments on a recent court ruling  to jail two al-Jazeera journalists, escalating the government’s defense of its crackdown on dissent. The two journalists, [ More … ]
Jan-Feb 2011 – After 30 years in power, Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak faces mass opposition in the form of nationwide demonstrations. Jan 30 2011 – Mohamed Morsi and several other Brotherhood figures escape from prison. [ More … ]
A militia group in one of Libya’s smuggling town has captured some of those alleged to be responsible for the drowning of up to 300 people off the Libyan coast Thursday. Three men were  seized [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have summoned the British ambassador to Egypt to discuss what it said was an “unacceptable interference in the provisions of the Egyptian judiciaryâ€. Ambassador John Casson made comments relating to the conviction of [ More … ]
Haaretz An Israeli soldier tried to detain a minor during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Friday, but a number of Palestinian women and children managed to stop him. According to [ More … ]
Theguardian The Australian journalist Peter Greste has called on Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to pardon him and his imprisoned colleagues after a shock court ruling on Saturday found them guilty of terrorism charges and [ More … ]
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