Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said he will not sit with putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar again, hoping that his supporters would review their decisions. Speaking in a broadcasted interview with Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, the head [ More … ]
Talks fail to deliver ‘serious dialogue’ between warring parties or to persuade both sides to agree to permanent truceWorld powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to shore up a shaky ceasefire in [ More … ]
The Batel (Void) Campaign has called, in a statement, on all Egyptians at home and abroad to demonstrate on the ninth anniversary of the January 25 revolution The popular campaign called on Egyptians to take [ More … ]
Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin calling the warring parties in Libya to a ceasefire was immediately accepted by the legitimate Tripoli government, while the belligerent Khalifa Haftar administration at first [ More … ]
Turkey strives to end the violence in both Idlib and Libya with a political solution, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Wednesday. “Libya is our neighbor through the sea and it is out of question [ More … ]
Moustafa Kassem, detained in Cairo in 2013 and suffering from serious medical problems, had protested his innocence. An American imprisoned in Egypt for six years on what he insisted were false charges, and whose case [ More … ]
EU ready to support Berlin process for Libya peace, says top EU officials The European Union’s foreign policy chief and the head of bloc’s parliament Monday welcomed the cease-fire in Libya. “The announcement of a [ More … ]
Egypt has blamed Ethiopia for the failure of the latest round of talks on the construction of a controversial Nile dam, a critical issue for Cairo as it seeks to protect its main source of [ More … ]
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi asked U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to send officials to Iraq to work out a mechanism for the withdrawal of American troops, according to his office, as the [ More … ]
More than 700,000 people have been displaced from Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, over the past eight months as a result of the fighting between Syrian regime forces and opposition groups in the area. UN Deputy [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will call for reaching cease-fire in Libya by midnight on Jan. 12, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. Cavusoglu spoke following a bilateral meeting between [ More … ]
Burial reported postponed after local official says at least 50 people have been killed during procession in Kerman A crush at the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani in his hometown of Kerman on Tuesday has [ More … ]
Against the backdrop of the death of a detainee in the Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, families of the notorious prison detainees are calling for an urgent investigation into what they considered a “horrific murder”. [ More … ]
US president says sites ‘will be hit very fast and very hard’ if Iran takes revenge for Soleimani assassination US President Donald Trump threatened that 52 “high level” Iranian targets “will be hit very fast” [ More … ]
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