US President Joe Biden’s U-turn on ending US support for offensive operations in Yemen earlier this week with the resumption of arms sale to the UAE has been condemned as a “disastrous” move by Human Rights Watch [ More … ]
Amnesty International’s MENA advocacy director has called on US President Joe Biden to denounce human rights in Egypt and demand change. “Tens of thousands of people have been swept up and detained in Egypt, and [ More … ]
Blinken says human rights, transparency and accountability are at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy while releasing the Human Rights Report 2020 In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken [ More … ]
The small Gulf country reduces its role in Yemen, Libya to focus on economy, where its muscular foreign policy since Arab Spring exposed it to risks, according to a report published by Bloomberg The United [ More … ]
President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist Jamal [ More … ]
With elections looming in both states, and hardliners out to ensure the collapse of the 2015 deal, time is running short for the US president to save it, states a report by the Guardian. For [ More … ]
A recent op-ed of The Washington Post criticizes the US State Department’s approval of a $197 million sale of naval surface-to-air missiles to the Sisi regime, while ignoring Cairo’s human rights bad record. Since taking [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration for the Egyptian government to improve its [ More … ]
The new administration of US President Joe Biden intends to review the recent designation of Yemen’s Houthi movement as a “terrorist” group, and end support for the Saudi-led coalition as the devastating Yemen war approaches [ More … ]
Biden should start with Egypt’s dictator if he is serious in his statements: NYT Biden should start with Egypt’s dictator if he is serious in his statements: NYT [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia is reportedly searching for a resolution to the three-year long Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] crisis as a way to enhance relations with the incoming Biden presidency, according to a report published in the Financial Times. [ More … ]
Leaders of the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Libya congratulated Biden, while Saudi Arabia and Syria have not yet released statements. Leaders of the Arab world congratulated US presidential election [ More … ]
Joe Biden’s campaign says Democratic candidate will be ‘the next president of the United States’ Joe Biden’s campaign all but declared victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, saying the former vice-president had a [ More … ]
Democratic presidential front-runner says if elected this November he will seek regime change in Turkey In a newly surfaced video, the current front-runner in the US presidential race said he would seek regime change in [ More … ]
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said there will be no more “blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator” in a widely shared Twitter post. The comments come not long after the release of the dual [ More … ]
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