The Libyan parliament called on the government to be at full readiness against “aggression” from Egypt, denouncing recent comments by Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that his army could intervene in the war-torn country, reported Anadolu Agency. [ More … ]
The Iranian ambassador to Amman was summoned on Sunday, over comments made describing King Abdullah as ‘silly and careless’. Jordan summoned Iran’s ambassador to Amman at the weekend, the foreign ministry confirmed, after an Iranian [ More … ]
A UAE court jailed a Jordanian journalist for three years over Facebook comments deemed insulting to the United Arab Emirates, Emirati state media and a Jordanian press union said. An Abu Dhabi court jailed Wednesday [ More … ]
Observers have noticed that there is a positive tone in Iran’s discourse toward Saudi Arabia that emerged over the past few days. This came in different statements by senior Iranian officials giving positive suggestions for [ More … ]
Kobler said that Hafter’s forces have made progress in the interest of all Libyans UN Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler has said on his Twitter account that the army, led by Khalifa Hafter, has made [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Belgium is the most important center for supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists and the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) terrorists that orchestrated and contributed to the [ More … ]
Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip denounced remarks made by Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a rare interview with Palestinian newspaper al-Quds on Monday, calling the ultra right-wing minister’s conditional offer to ease the [ More … ]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a Jewish population and termed it “ethnic cleansing”, drawing sharp criticism from the United States, According to Israeli [ More … ]
– Foreign Ministry spokesman says human rights official’s comments ‘unfortunate’ – The UN’s top human rights official was criticized by Turkey on Saturday for saying the country should curb its “thirst for revenge” over the [ More … ]
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