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Analysis

The Syrian conflict continues amidst a never-ending political quagmire

July 27, 2020 MEO Staff

Syria’s civil war is in its tenth year with no end in sight. UN-brokered talks in Geneva have failed to emerge with tangible results;  the Astana process, led by Russia, Iran, and Turkey, has also [ More … ]

Latest News

FP: With the Help of Russian Fighters, Libya’s Haftar Could Take Tripoli

December 6, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

In a shattered villa south of the Libyan capital that serves as his field headquarters, a middle-aged militia commander named Mohammed al-Darrat, an engineer in another life, fretted over incoming ordnance, said the Foreign Policy. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s Support for Haftar Could Cost it Work in Libya

May 14, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Latest News

Haftar Offensive on Tripoli ‘Sounded Like a Coup’: UN Libya Envoy

April 17, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen: 85,000 children may have died from starvation

November 21, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

Aid group Save the Children analysed UN data and found tens of thousands of kids under 5 perished from severe hunger. As many as 85,000 children in Yemen starved to death in the past three [ More … ]

Syria Latest News

Leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany Hold Syria Talks

October 29, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

Istanbul summit addresses numerous issues, including Idlib demilitarised zone, constitutional reform and refugees. A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed [ More … ]

Lebanon

Macron stated Publicly that Saudi Arabia had Held Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri for Several Weeks.

May 29, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

Lebanon was plunged into crisis in November when Hariri resigned as prime minister while in Saudi Arabia, saying he feared assassination and criticizing the Saudis’ regional rival Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Lebanese officials [ More … ]

Column

Trump’s Bloody Inauguration in the Middle East!

May 24, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

By: Abdullah Muradoğlu* The U.S. Embassy moving to Jerusalem on the day Palestinians mourn the “Nakba” (Day of the Catastrophe) was an exceptionally very provocative move. On the same day, the Israeli army, taking courage from [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Two Days After Israeli Jet Shot Down…Israel Pledges to Continue ‘Strike’ Against Iran and Syria !!

February 12, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

The Israeli Prime Minister has struck a defiant tone the day after his country bombed Iranian and Syrian targets — and promised to continue to strike back against his enemies. Benjamin Netanyahu defied Russian president [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen Facing The Largest Famine The World Has Seen For Many Decades

November 9, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Yemen could face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims,” if the Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not lift a blockade on the war-torn country, a senior UN aid [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemeni soldiers killed in suspected Qaeda attack: army

June 29, 2017 rafik

Al-Qaeda militants opened fire on a military zone in Yemen’s Hadramawt province on Wednesday, killing three soldiers and kidnapping one, a military source said. Three Yemeni soldiers were killed when suspected al-Qaeda militants opened fire [ More … ]

UN: next Syria peace talks on 20 February in Geneva
Syria Latest News

New round of Syria peace talks to resume in July, UN envoy says

June 15, 2017 MEO Staff

A fresh round of Syria peace talks aimed at ending the six-year-old civil war may restart in Geneva next month, Staffan de Mistura said on Wednesday. A new round of Syria peace talks could take [ More … ]

Analysis

Intelligence Reports Warn Al-Sisi of Civil War in Sinai

May 19, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Well informed sources said that a report prepared by the Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate has warned Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against the dangers of widening the scope of confrontation in the Sinai area between local tribes on the [ More … ]

Analysis

Yemen on the Verge of Division amid Civil War and UAE-Saudi Differences

May 8, 2017 MEO Staff

Yemen appears to be on the verge of final steps to re-partition the country to ‘north’ and ‘south’, if not more, in light of the continuing civil war and the intensified Saudi-Emirati differences and conflict [ More … ]

Analysis

Is fear from a likely popular uprising behind Al-Sisi’s massive arms purchases?

January 27, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president after he led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian military has embarked on a massive spending spree. Egypt ranked the second among [ More … ]

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