Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Sunday defended the economic boycott of Israel as a freedom of speech movement that’s “pushing back against racist policies in Israel.” Last week, 398 House members overwhelmingly passed a resolution to [ More … ]
The Trump administration seems to be preparing to circumvent Congress to allow the export to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of billions of dollars of munitions that are now on hold, according to [ More … ]
Egyptian politicians and oppositionists in the United States underestimated the effectiveness of attempts by the regime of the coup leader, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to influence the position of the US Congress against the Muslim Brotherhood, [ More … ]
SAUDI ARABIA’S crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is brazenly seeking to lie his way out of accountability for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration is helping him do so, says [ More … ]
Less than a week after US President Donald Trump signed a presidential waiver preventing the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the US Senate passed a resolution on Monday — the [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) third extraordinary congress is going to be held tomorrow. Although the AK Party, first established 16 years ago, held no extraordinary congress in its first 14 [ More … ]
The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) third extraordinary congress is being held in Ankara today as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the founder of the AK Party, is set to be chosen as chairman of [ More … ]
Senior lawmakers rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration that the United States has “no role” in Libya, citing the threat of regional instability to U.S. national security interests. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (R., [ More … ]
Fatah spokesperson Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad warned that relocating the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would “explode the situation” in the entire Middle East and North Africa region, in response to a US [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump’s administration indicated on Sunday that discussions to move the American embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem were “at the very beginning stages,” as Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin [ More … ]
A US Congress delegation is visiting Egypt. The congressional delegation was headed by congressman Michael Conaway, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, reported Daily News Egypt. The US congress delegation met Foreign Minister [ More … ]
Michele Dunne -an expert on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East- said that the US aid to Egypt since Camp David treaty has [ More … ]
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