The Muslim Brotherhood’s former supreme guide Mahdi Akef died in prison on Friday (Sept. 22) at the age of 89 due to medical negligence. After four years of suffering from cancer in prison without receiving [ More … ]
Shell is considering buying gas from the Israeli Leviathan field in the Mediterranean for sale in the Egyptian market, according to media reports. Royal Dutch Shell is considering buying Israeli gas for sale in Egypt [ More … ]
The royal’s holiday is expected to account for 1.5 per cent of north African country’s foreign tourism revenue – amid austerity measures by the Saudi government, including new fees on expats and companies. Saudi Arabia’s [ More … ]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish militants was “always on the agenda”, a week after Tehran’s top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks. Turkey has [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have prevented an Algerian humanitarian aid convoy from entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing, a Palestinian NGO revealed on Friday. The NGO said the Egyptian decision to prevent the entry of [ More … ]
Donald Trump and top Saudi officials discussed removing Turkey from the Syrian equation and shifting the headquarters of the Syrian opposition’s headquarters from Istanbul to Riyadh Details of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia visit, [ More … ]
Qatar has called on Saudi Arabia to end unjust restrictions imposed of Qataris wishing to perform the Hajj next month. Qatar has called on Saudi Arabia to end unjust restrictions imposed on Qataris wishing to [ More … ]
BY: Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh* When Al-Sisi staged his coup against the first democratically elected president in Egypt in 7,000 years, he said his famous line: “Tomorrow, you’ll see Egypt will be on top of [ More … ]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cares more about maintaining good security ties with the Egyptian Army than with re-staffing Israel’s embassy in Cairo which has been empty since the end of 2016, National Security Council [ More … ]
A Tunisian parliamentary delegation embarked on a nine-day visit to the Syrian capital of Damascus on 4 August, for meeting with Syrian senior officials, according to Tunisia news website. A delegation of Tunisian MPs Friday [ More … ]
A “highly classified” press release by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was published by WikiLeaks, reveals the level of rapprochement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. Saudi Arabia initiated discussions on the issue of [ More … ]
A photograph showing the portraits of UAE rulers at a military camp in Yemen’s southern city of Mokha, Taiz province has caused angry reactions in the country. A photograph showing the portraits of the rulers [ More … ]
The investment would include expanding the Four Seasons resort in Sharm el-Sheikh in the southern Sinai, transforming it into ‘the biggest resort in the world’. Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is set to [ More … ]
An Egyptian human rights organization stated on Sunday that 254 people have “forcibly disappeared” in the country over the past six months. While the Egyptian authorities repeatedly deny the cases of “enforced disappearance” in the [ More … ]
Qatar has achieved a boost in morale after proving its resilience to the blockade, especially after the four countries fell flat in a press conference in July. Qatar is even stronger than it was before [ More … ]
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