The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG) on Wednesday accused the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of implicating Egypt in more debts. The Egyptian National Action Group, including opposition figures from across the Egyptian political spectrum both [ More … ]
An attack on Saudi Arabia that shut 5% of global crude output triggered the biggest surge in oil prices since 1991, after U.S. officials blamed Iran and President Donald Trump said Washington was “locked and [ 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 … ]
Bin Salman called Iran’s Khamenei “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times, sharply escalating the war of words between the two rival countries. Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar are locked in a war of words as the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Sunni Arab neighbors enters its third week. “Emiratis, not Qataris, were among the [ More … ]
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed regional rival Saudi Arabia on Sunday, describing the kingdom as the US ‘milking cow’. Saudi Arabia is being pumped “like a milking cow” by “infidel” Americans, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah [ More … ]
A new report has warned that people being housed by the state in protective custody are at a pronounced risk of being abused and tortured. Disabled people and women in protective custody in Jordan are [ More … ]
Turkey on Sunday accused Germany of supporting the network of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it blames for last year’s attempted coup, comments likely to aggravate a diplomatic feud between the two countries. Germany and [ More … ]
A report published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) concludes that Israel has established an “apartheid regime” is drawing criticism from the UN and Israeli officials. The report that [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has criticized Germany for the recent cancelation of rallies in support of constitutional change in Turkey, claiming that Berlin is working favor of the “no” campaign. In a speech on [ More … ]
Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that there are Egyptian institutions harboring, supporting, and funding terrorist groups in Ethiopia, during his interview on Al- Muqabla show aired on Al-Jazeera on Thursday. The Ethiopian prime minister’s [ More … ]
Turkey’s western allies are accused of reluctance towards fighting against PKK terrorist group Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister on Thursday criticized the country’s western allies of being reluctant to show support in the fight against the [ More … ]
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