Egypt’s al-Sisi has pledged military support for Gulf Arab states if their security comes under threat, as reported by the state a state-owned newspaper, Al-Ahram. “If the security of the Gulf is directly threatened, Egypt [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have executed 32 people since the military overthrew the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. According to the New Khaleej, Egyptian authorities have executed 32 people in nine cases since the coup [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death, including senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood over a sit-in protest in Cairo that ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters. Senior Brotherhood leaders Essam el-Erian [ More … ]
Erdoğan and the AK Party are heading for victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, according to unofficial data Unofficial results from Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections show incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cast his vote on Sunday in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Erdoğan voted at the Saffet Çebi Middle School in Istanbul’s Üsküdar at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time. He was accompanied [ More … ]
Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on positions of Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The raids targeted three positions of Islamic Jihad group and a position of Hamas in central and southern Gaza [ More … ]
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)’s parliamentary group officially announced on Friday that its candidate for the upcoming presidential elections on June 24 would be Muharrem İnce, its Yalova deputy Muharrem İnce: is a [ More … ]
Conflicting reports have emerged about the fate of the Libyan National Army’s Commander’s fate: while a source in Tripoli said that Marshal Khalifa Haftar had passed away, a member of the Army said he is [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s unsurprising 97 percent win, announced Monday after a widely-derided sham election, asserts the recession of civil environment in Egypt and thus, reaffirms the exponential power of the military’s influence in nearly every facet [ More … ]
We reject the statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt dated 19 March regarding the operation conducted by Turkey in Afrin. Taking the lead among countries defending the territorial integrity and political unity [ More … ]
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday directly accused Hamas of carrying out a bomb attack against Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza last week and threatened fresh sanctions against the Gaza, prompting Hamas to call for [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone call with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz late Tuesday in which the two leaders discussed Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch launched against terrorist groups in Syria’s Afrin. In the [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi made major changes to the intelligence agency, which included dismissing the director of the agency, along with other intelligence officials and officers. Sisi’s chief of staff Abbas Kamel will serve as interim [ More … ]
Amnesty has said that civilians are trapped in the city while according to Airwars several hundred of civilians have died since June The US-led coalition campaign to oust the Islamic State group (IS) from Syria’s [ More … ]
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