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The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been in meetings with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, in order to thank him for the Russian air strikes. This is Assad’s first foreign visit since the start of [ More … ]
An appeals court in Bahrain upheld the conviction of the prominent opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja on Wednesday, sentencing her to one year in prison for insulting the nation’s king. During a court hearing, she ripped [ More … ]
Russian air strikes in Syria’s Latakia province killed a top rebel commander from a group armed by President Bashar al-Assad’s foreign enemies, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said [ More … ]
Turnout at the end of the first day of Egyptian parliamentary elections on Saturday was a extremely low, 2,27 percent, according to the Supreme Elections Committee. Streets were largely empty over the weekend during the [ More … ]
A military airstrike in northwest Syria has killed the leader of an al-Qaeda cell that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the United States and Europe, announced the Pentagon on Sunday. The leader, [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti rights group on Monday accused authorities in the Gulf state of discrimination against foreigners by barring them from certain healthcare services at public hospitals. The independent Kuwait Society for Human Rights said expatriates [ More … ]
Egyptians appeared to be shunning the ballot box for a second day Monday in what has been called “an election without voters”, a show of massive disillusionment since the army seized power in the 2013 [ More … ]
The US approved conditional sanctions waivers for Iran on Sunday, though it cautioned they would not take effect until Tehran had curbed its nuclear programme as required under the nuclear deal reached in Vienna in [ More … ]
Israeli police are hunting members of a group of Israelis who killed an Eritrean migrant after they thought that he was involved in an attack at a bus station. Haftom Zarhum, was shot repeatedly by [ More … ]
Just over two percent of eligible voters have gone to the ballot boxes on the day of the Egyptian parliament elections in order to decide on Egypt’s first parliament since the military coup against the [ More … ]
A suspected Russian air strike on a home in the countryside near the central city of Homs has killed 48 people from a single family, says Syrian activists. The bomb shelter where the family was [ More … ]
The Central bank in Egypt has weakened the value of the Egyptian pound against the dollar Sunday for the second time in a week. The bank said in a statement that it dropped the value from [ More … ]
Egyptians head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new pro-Sisi parliament. The election has been delayed and it will tighten President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s grip on power after he crushed all opposition since removing [ More … ]
The UAE paid a London-based public relations firm millions of pounds to lead attacks in the UK against Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other opponents of the Gulf state, according to a Mail on Sunday [ More … ]
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank as violence continued to grip the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian demonstrators marched from [ More … ]
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