The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allies, a rebuke of Donald Trump. The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in [ More … ]
The two sides initialled a document called the ‘Political Declaration’ after intense talks through the night Sudan’s opposition coalition and ruling generals signed an agreement on Wednesday intended to pave the pay to a power-sharing [ More … ]
Egyptian social media activists on Sunday launched a campaign calling for saving the life of Gehad Haddad who suffered from food contamination in an Egyptian jail. Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s [ More … ]
French weapons are being used by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, according to a classified note revealed by French media on Monday, April 15 which contradicts the claims of France’s government. [ More … ]
The 15 July failed coup attempt in Turkey has its place within the Turkish people’s minds as one of the most catastrophic days for the country, with some even defining it as an ‘apocalypse’ There [ More … ]
Amnesty International has condemned the Egyptian authorities’ “revolving door” practice of re-imprisoning activists, journalists and others after their release from detention is ordered by judges. Al Jazeera producer and Ola Qaradawi are among those immediately [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities detained a Ukrainian tanker carrying Iranian oil as it passed through the Suez Canal ten days ago. News of the seizure came a day after Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court sentenced six [ More … ]
Sanctions target two Lebanese lawmakers and a top aide to Hassan Nasrallah The United States has imposed sanctions on Hezbollah political officials, including members of the Lebanese parliament, accusing the group of threatening the “economic [ More … ]
Major General Mohammad Bagheri says Thursday’s seizure near Gibraltar was based on ‘fabricated excuses’ The UK’s decision to seize an Iranian oil tanker on the coast of Gibraltar will not go “unanswered” warned one of [ More … ]
One day after a judge had ordered the release of Ola al-Qaradawi, daughter of a well-known Islamic scholar, authorities rearrested her Egyptian authorities should have released Ola al-Qaradawi, daughter Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, a well-known Islamic [ More … ]
Algerian opposition groups and protesters have demanded elections take place by the end of the year, after the interim president pushed for dialogue talks. Algerian civil society and opposition party activists met and proposed “free and pluralistic” elections [ More … ]
Members of Al-Sisi’s own regime have joined Egypt’s opposition and the president is afraid, Director of the Egypt-based Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Bahey eldin Hassan has told an audience in London. This has [ More … ]
An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the United Nations [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
The Egyptian government’s widespread violence toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition parties is strengthening them. Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi fainted and died during an appearance in a Cairo court last month, part of [ More … ]
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