Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, and Carey Mulligan are among the signatories to a letter to Liz Truss and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Hollywood stars urged US and UK to help secure [ More … ]
Two airlines cite unspecified security concerns but give no details about what may have prompted the move. British Airways and Lufthansa have suspended flights to Egypt’s capital, Cairo, over unspecified security concerns, giving no details [ More … ]
Major General Mohammad Bagheri says Thursday’s seizure near Gibraltar was based on ‘fabricated excuses’ The UK’s decision to seize an Iranian oil tanker on the coast of Gibraltar will not go “unanswered” warned one of [ More … ]
Jeremy Hunt will attempt to encourage Saudi authorities to cooperate with Turkish investigation The UK foreign secretary is flying to Saudi Arabia to request that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, cooperates more fully [ More … ]
Britain said Wednesday it would help Saudi Arabia to diversify its oil-dependent economy as British Prime Minister Theresa May visited the Kingdom. A statement from May’s office said the two discussed several issues including security [ More … ]
May visits Anitkabir — mausoleum of Turkish republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Ankara Saturday during which she was expected to meet Turkey’s leadership, including the president and prime [ More … ]
The Secretary of State for International Development in Britain Priti Patel announced that Britain will provide an additional £37 million in funding for Yemen this year, said Express newspaper on Sept.22. She also said that [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has to fight now to maintain access to British and American-made arms, reported Forbes. Saudi Arabia is fighting a brutal war in Yemen, and is accused of violating human rights laws and using [ More … ]
The British foreign secretary has defended UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, saying the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen is not “in clear breach” of international humanitarian law, reported Middle East Eye In a written [ More … ]
Despite Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in the Middle East according to The Independent, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has raised [ More … ]
By Busra Akin Dincer* BBC looking for Turks who can denounce democracy and I am looking for Britons who can defend it After a long, busy morning on Friday, I received an email from a [ More … ]
Middle East Eye has obtained air traffic recordings that revealed a multinational military operation involving British, French and US forces is coordinating air strikes in support of General Khalifa Haftar battling Islamist militia groups from a base [ More … ]
Three Syrians with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was [ More … ]
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