Dr. Said Elhaj* Many prefer to describe events in the region as a Sunni-Shiite conflict, in which Iran leads the Shiite axis and Saudi Arabia leads the Sunni axis, stretching over a wide geographical area, [ More … ]
A drone strike killed five suspected al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said on Sunday. Five suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed in a drone strike in [ More … ]
In a meeting with the left-wing Israeli Meretz party on Sunday in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly expressed his confusion regarding the US stance on Israel and [ More … ]
The Yemeni people are suffering a “triple tragedy” as the country is ravaged by a brutal conflict, a cholera outbreak, and the threat of famine, the United Nations humanitarian chief said Friday. The “vicious and [ More … ]
Turkish government minister Wednesday called for military force to be used against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in order to prevent further atrocities against civilians. EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik said that Assad had manipulated efforts to [ More … ]
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has declared war against Al Shabaab and extended amnesty to those who will renounce the terrorist group over the next 60 days, effective Thursday, April 6. “Fighters who renounce their [ More … ]
The attack targeted a convoy carrying Abdu Al-Jundi, who was appointed as governor of Taiz by the Houthi rebels, and the military commander of the same region, Abu Ali al-Hakem Two senior Yemen rebels survived [ More … ]
Since the UAE soldiers stepped onto the land of Yemen, the Arab Gulf country did not stop all the time trying to establish its influence in a country which has been suffering from a fierce war for [ More … ]
Diplomatic tensions have recently escalated between Turkey and Iran as the two regional powers traded accusations over their roles in the Syria conflict and the Middle East. The pair have been rivals for centuries but [ More … ]
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı’s visit to Israel yesterday marked the first official visit from Ankara to Tel Aviv since the Mavi Marmara crisis seven years ago. The Turkish minister met with Israeli [ More … ]
BY: Taha Kılınç* A day after Barrack Hussein Obama sat in the presidential seat on Jan. 20, 2009, an interesting article was published in The New York Times, one of the most read newspapers in the [ More … ]
The foreign ministers of the European Union’s 28 member states have issued a joint declaration backing the recently launched French-led Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. The European Union’s 28 foreign ministers endorsed on Monday the French-led initiative [ More … ]
Regeni began dying soon after his arrival in Cairo in September 2015, where the Egyptian National Security Sector and the General Intelligence Service opened a confidential file on him, file no. 333//2915/01, with charges of [ More … ]
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