Ethiopia will skip the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks this week on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan, the country’s water ministry announced Wednesday, reported The Associated Press. The U.S.-sponsored trilateral talks [ More … ]
Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dead, the autocrat that was removed in the 2011 revolution has died at the age 91, receiving plaudits from Egypt’s presidency and military, as well as Israel’s Netanyahu Hosni Mubarak, [ More … ]
European Union High Representative, Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell warned that Israeli settlement announcements would be detrimental to two-state solution. “The Israeli authorities have announced an imminent decision regarding settlement construction in the Givat Hamatos [ More … ]
Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, revealed that his movement has rejected holding talks with the US due to its bias towards the Israeli occupation, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds [ More … ]
Why is Egypt in its current state? And what happened to the revolution? These two questions and many others were addressed by Open Democracy in an interview with Joshua Stacher about his new book, “Egypt’s [ More … ]
Qatar prospering under Blockade by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain. A sea, air and land blockade the four Arab states imposed on independent-minded Qatar more than two and half years ago appears to have [ More … ]
Pompeo says it could take “months” to resolve a dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday confirmed an ongoing stalemate over Ethiopia’s dam project on the River [ More … ]
The new wall, both above and below ground, is aimed at stemming the use of cross-border tunnels with the besieged Palestinian strip Egyptian security and military forces are working around the clock to build a [ More … ]
For the first time, an Israeli plane has flown through the Sudanese airspace, Ynet News reported Sunday. The plane had first taken off last Monday from Israel’s Tel Aviv for Congo’s capital city of Kinshasa, [ More … ]
Ethiopian officials announced on Friday that negotiations between them and Sudan and Egypt that this past week in Washington ended without a final agreement on the longstanding Nile River dispute. Officials from the three countries [ More … ]
Despite severe casualties, regime forces backed by Russia take control of villages in Aleppo countryside Hundreds of forces of the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime have been neutralized amid operations over the last two weeks in [ More … ]
A Syrian government helicopter was downed in a rural area west of Aleppo in Syria’s Idlib region, Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday. Syrian rebels shot down the government helicopter today, the second in [ More … ]
Despite Egypt’s improved macroeconomic indicators, the demands for bread, freedom and social justice remain elusive for most. Bloomberg on 11 February published an opinion article by Timothy Kaldas, an independent risk adviser and nonresident fellow [ More … ]
11 February, a date that tells Egyptians they are stronger,” says the Egyptian National Action Group in a statement The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), including opposition figures from a broad Egyptian political spectrum both [ More … ]
The Lebanese parliament convened this morning to conduct a confidence vote for the new government, despite attempts by protesters to prevent the assembly from taking place. Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri stated that 67 [ More … ]
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