Turkey is face-to-face with a millennium-old showdown. It is under the threat of those who want to avenge the conquest of Istanbul, those who want to avenge Manzikert – which paved the way to the [ More … ]
Media reports revealed that sources at Al-Ahram Centre for Political Studies have revealed that Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar has called on Egypt to supply him with surface-to-surface missiles to back his attack on the Libyan [ More … ]
After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week signaled that there isn’t an easy way out of the dispute that Trump’s [ More … ]
Israeli parliament votes to hold new elections after Netanyahu fails to form coalition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before voting in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo) Israeli Prime [ More … ]
How inflammatory headlines, unnamed sources and decades of misinformation in the US media over Iran play their part. Hyped-up headlines, “anonymous” sources and unspecified threats – Iran is back in the news in the United States. It wouldn’t [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s two-year investigation documented crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians. Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
Turkey has purchased the S-400 missiles. So, what now? Is the US going to attack us? What sort of a threat is this? What are you preparing for? – asks Ibrahim Karagul “If you buy [ More … ]
Heavy fighting raged in the Libyan capital on Saturday as eastern forces made a new push to advance inside the city controlled by the internationally recognized government. The Libya National Army (LNA) force of Khalifa Haftar, [ More … ]
The struggles of civilians in northwestern Syria’s Idlib continue. Many have gone underground from fear of the heavy airstrikes by the Bashar Assad regime and Russia that recently devastated basic services and daily life in [ More … ]
Egyptian high school students protested after technical problems had ruined school exams. The teenagers were met with violence by security forces as they decried ‘failed education system’, following failure of tablets, WiFi and much more. [ More … ]
The domestic public debt of Egypt reached EGP 4.1049tn at the end of December 2018, against EGP 3.887tn at the end of September 2018, up by EGP 220bn (5.66%), according to the Central Bank of [ More … ]
Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a military offensive against the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, rejects a ceasefire requested by French President Emmanuel Macron during talks in Paris, an Elysee official says Libyan eastern commander Khalifa [ More … ]
While Palestinians have rejected upcoming summit in Bahrain, UAE insists it ‘aims to lift the Palestinian people out of misery’ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia have welcomed an upcoming economic summit in [ More … ]
Turkey has a little more than two weeks to decide whether to complete a complex arms deal with the U.S. or risk severe penalties by going through with an agreement to buy a missile system [ More … ]
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