Egypt reached a settlement agreement with state-owned Israel Electric Corp. to pay a reduced fine for halting deliveries of natural gas, ending a dispute that started about seven years ago. The accord signed June 16 [ More … ]
In a recent Foreign Policy article former Minister of Investment Yehia Hamed forecast that Egypt will soon be bankrupt if it continues in the same vein. External debt has increased fivefold in the last half [ More … ]
The repeated confiscation of Al-Ahaly newspaper has raised complaints about press freedom in Egypt, where state oversight of the media is a long and opaque tradition. A wave of anger swept journalists and rights groups in Egypt after copies [ More … ]
Eight years after the Arab Spring transfixed the world, the Middle East has once again lit up with protest. In April, popular movements in Algeria and Sudan forced the ouster of two long-serving autocrats: Algerian [ More … ]
Doctors’ committee says two people killed in clashes in the capital, while two others died in its twin city of Omdurman One week after scores died in a crackdown on Sudanese protesters demanding civilian rule, [ More … ]
In an article published on Israeli INN website, TZahi Levi, an Israeli writer and political researcher, wondered why Israel ignores Egypt’s quest to strengthen itself militarily, especially regarding its naval force. Citing Der Spiegel German [ 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 … ]
Gulf rulers would have Arabs believe Iran – and not Israel – is their enemy. Palestinians are being asked to pay the price to preserve the thrones of the oil families. Who is the main [ More … ]
Five people reported dead amid gunfire as security forces attempt to break up protest site outside defense ministry Sudanese security forces entered the site of a sit-in in central Khartoum early on Monday amid gunfire, witnesses [ More … ]
Turkey is face-to-face with a millennium-old showdown. It is under the threat of those who want to avenge the conquest of Istanbul, those who want to avenge Manzikert – which paved the way to the [ More … ]
After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week signaled that there isn’t an easy way out of the dispute that Trump’s [ More … ]
Israeli parliament votes to hold new elections after Netanyahu fails to form coalition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before voting in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo) Israeli Prime [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s two-year investigation documented crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians. Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
Turkey has purchased the S-400 missiles. So, what now? Is the US going to attack us? What sort of a threat is this? What are you preparing for? – asks Ibrahim Karagul “If you buy [ More … ]
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