Qatar said on Tuesday it plans to increase natural gas production by 30 percent over the next several years, as it faces pressure from its neighbors in a diplomatic crisis. State-owned Qatar Petroleum said it [ More … ]
A number of leading detained activists from Al Hoceima and other towns in the Rif were reportedly called for “extensive” interrogations on Monday. Al Yaoum24 said that two activists detained in Casablanca’s Oukacha Prison were [ More … ]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Israel on Tuesday in the first visit to the country by an Indian prime minister, marking a turning point in relations after decades of frozen ties. Tags: India, [ More … ]
Qatar’s defiant defence minister, Khaled Al-Attiyah said the country was prepared to defend itself if necessary, amid ongoing political escalations in the Gulf. Qatar is prepared to defend itself if necessary, Qatar’s Minister of State [ More … ]
United Nations humanitarian organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory appealed on Monday for funding to address the “spiraling” situation in the besieged Gaza Strip. According to a statement published by the UN Office for the [ More … ]
A video has been recently circulated on social networking sites ridiculing Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who appeared while clearing his nose and keeping the dirty tissue in his sleeve. Egyptians considered Al-Sisi’s public behavior in front [ More … ]
US-backed fighters pierced militant-held Raqqa from the south for the first time on Sunday, crossing the Euphrates River to enter a new part of the Syrian city, a monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) [ More … ]
Qatar says the Saudi-led blockade against Doha is a “bloodless declaration of war,” a day after the Gulf Arab country rejected as “unreasonable” the demands presented by Saudi Arabia and its allies to end the [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Exactly four years ago, the bloodiest and most savage military coup of the 21st century was perpetrated against Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president in its 4,000-year history. Morsi was sent directly [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt push back by 48 hours deadline on 13 demands made to Doha The Saudi-led axis of powers has extended by 48 hours a deadline on 13 demands issued to [ More … ]
UAE transferred Yemen terror suspects to secret Eritrean prison, says Human Rights Watch Two investigations uncovered cases of ‘torture and forced disappearances’ by UAE forces in Yemen, a leading human rights group has said. Former [ More … ]
The Saudi Ambassador to Khartoum Ali bin Hassan Jaafar has urged Sudan to take “clear stance” on the ongoing Gulf crisis, accusing Qatar of seeking the backing of two states with regional ambitions, Turkey and [ More … ]
Nine people have been reported dead and 15 others wounded after a suicide bombing hit Tahrir Square in Damascus on Sunday. At least nine people were killed and 15 others wounded on Sunday when a [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians in predawn military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian sources and the Israeli army said. Israeli forces stormed the village of Kafr Qaddum in northern [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Gulf countries prioritizing Qatar as a problem above the myriad of other, urgent problems of the Muslim world, including starvation from Syria to Iraq, Palestine to Myanmar, Yemen to Libya to Somalia, actually [ More … ]
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