Libyan strongman 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 [ More … ]
Renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who has been praised by President Donald Trump, commands the Libyan National Army, which in April began an offensive to seize the city from the United Nations-backed Government of National [ More … ]
Egyptians looking to snag lucrative reconstruction contracts in Libya are divided over whether their country’s support for one side in the civil war will hurt their chances. On May 5, Fayez al-Sarraj, prime minister of Libya’s [ More … ]
Repeated rescue cries from Al-Wadi al Jadid prison in Ramadan. Prisoners suffer from starvation, thirst, humiliation, and deliberate negligence. The prison cuts the water throughout the day and leaves it only for one hour. Prisoners [ More … ]
The United Nations’s top envoy for Libya has said that renegade General Khalifa Haftar tried to stage a coup when he issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA). Speaking to [ More … ]
Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has been blamed by many Egyptians for Wednesday’s deadly train crash in Cairo which killed at least 25 people. Egyptians balmed Al-Sisi for rampant corruption and his refusal to invest [ More … ]
Hassan Rouhani says ‘Iran has only one foreign policy and one foreign minister’ a day after minister quits Zarif, left, gave no specific reasons for his decision to resign, but cited an ‘inability to continue [ More … ]
An international rights group has urged Libyan strongman’s self-styled army to lift its siege inside an eastern Mediterranean city where civilians have been trapped. Human Rights Watch said that over the past two weeks, General [ More … ]
Mahmoud Al-Sisi, the son of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has been holding marathon meetings within the General Intelligence Service (GIS) while seeking to extend his father’s presidency, the New York Times has reported. The GIS [ More … ]
The Egyptian government canceled a contract with a top US lobbying firm days after the American broadcaster CBS grilled Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about his human rights record, a report has revealed. According to Al-Monitor, [ More … ]
Egyptian opposition parties have formed a coalition against proposed changes to the constitution that would allow Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to stay in office well beyond the end of his current term in 2022, two opposition leaders [ More … ]
When the Egyptian government signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund in November 2016, it committed to the all-too-familiar austerity measures of subsidy cuts and tax hikes, in addition to the flotation of the [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for regional unity against Iran in a speech in Cairo, one of several stops on his regional tour to reassure allies following President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of [ More … ]
Rights group calls Egypt an ‘open-air prison’ for critics and calls on the Egyptian government to release people held for peacefully expressing opinions. In a new campaign launched by Amnesty International on Thursday, titled Egypt, [ More … ]
The Egyptian and French navies conducted an exercise at the Red Sea base, with the French vessel, Courbet, taking part. A group of Egyptian and French vessels participated in an extensive training aiming to boost [ More … ]
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