Saudi Arabia has ended a loan and oil supply to Pakistan due to the latter’s criticism that the Saudi-led Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is not doing enough to pressure India on the Kashmir issue. [ More … ]
Egyptian opposition prominent figures issued on Saturday, August 8, 2020, a statement addressed to the Egyptian people rejecting what they called “the crime of demarcating the maritime borders with Greece”, according to the statement. A [ More … ]
Saad al-Jabri, a former veteran figure in the Saudi government, said to be target of assassination plot Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has been accused of sending a hit squad to [ More … ]
Egypt and Greece signed an agreement Thursday designating an exclusive economic zone in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two countries, an area containing promising oil and gas reserves, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. Shoukry [ More … ]
Ethiopia‘s Renaissance Dam could displace millions of Egyptians and Sisi should be held fully responsible for this national disaster, an article by David Hearst in the Middle East Eye states. Hearst says the disaster of [ More … ]
Egypt and Sudan suspended talks with Ethiopia after it proposed linking a deal on its newly constructed reservoir and giant hydroelectric dam to a broader agreement about the Blue Nile waters that would replace a [ More … ]
More than 100 civilians including women and children were killed by ground fighting, explosive remnants and airstrikes in Libya between April and June, an increase of 65% from the first three months of the year, [ More … ]
After five years of conflict, the crisis in Yemen has reached an unprecedented level whereby children are battling life and death. UNICEF has declared a state of emergency for Yemeni children who are facing starvation [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities said they were building a flyover through the capital’s sacred necropolis, while they were exhuming graves and erasing history in the process, a report by MEE says Cairo’s vast necropolis is a sacred [ More … ]
Ankara and Baku are launching on Wednesday large-scale military exercises as part of the Agreement on Military Cooperation between both countries after the Azerbaijani defense ministry announced that a group of servicemen and the aircraft [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have executed seven men for their alleged involvement in the killing of a police officer in the Ismailia governorate in 2013. “The prison service on Tuesday carried out the sentence of death by [ More … ]
Oman has terminated a contract with UAE-owned Damac International amid speculation that the new Sultan is moving slowly away from a position of neutrality on regional geopolitical matters, a policy that had been maintained by [ More … ]
Taking advantage of the coronavirus epidemic, is the military regime planning to take over the medical system in Egypt? The Egyptian government has agreed to establish the Egyptian Company for Medical Investment, as an affiliate [ More … ]
Syria’s civil war is in its tenth year with no end in sight. UN-brokered talks in Geneva have failed to emerge with tangible results; the Astana process, led by Russia, Iran, and Turkey, has also [ More … ]
Mechichi, former legal adviser to President Kais Saied, replaces Elyes Fakhfakh, who quit after a no-confidence motion in his leadership Hichem Mechichi has been appointed as Tunisia’s PM designate in order to form the country’s [ More … ]
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