US ‘can’t give Saudi Arabia a pass’ on Khashoggi, US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says, blames crown prince for murder Saudi Arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. [ More … ]
Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
The accolade honors the Saudi journalist and others, including those from the Capital Gazette, killed or imprisoned in 2018 Time magazine has collectively named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay If the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was committed using all the means of the Saudi Arabian government, then those who commissioned it can theoretically be distinguished from the state, regardless of their [ More … ]
Egypt must ensure no one is subjected to reprisal in relation to Special Procedures missions. Resettlement and compensation of those evicted must comply with international human rights law, says a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
Dozens of Jordanians protested at the country’s prime ministry on Thursday against economic policies and corruption as part of a growing new, leaderless youth protest movement. Some 400 young Jordanians braved torrential rain, flooded streets [ More … ]
A bipartisan group of senior senators said on Tuesday that a classified briefing by the C.I.A. director had only solidified their belief that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, ordered the killing [ 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 … ]
Turkey’s Opposition Nationalist Movement Party Leader Devlet Bahçeli says Saudi Arabia, UAE are backstabbing Muslims Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Tuesday slammed Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, accusing them of backstabbing [ More … ]
A statement entitled “the Islamic jurist who tortured us” has been published on the front page of an Egyptian government magazine, signalling a confrontation between the Egyptian presidency and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed El-Tayeb. [ More … ]
After ratifying the controversial NGO law, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has recently ordered the formation of a committee to amend it, following the international criticism he is under for repressing freedoms. Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly [ More … ]
Members of Egyptian national security agency listed as potentially responsible for killing the Italian student student Giulio Regeni Italian prosecutors have named several members of Egypt’s national security agency as suspects in the alleged [ More … ]
The chairman of EgyptAir, Ahmed Adel, announced on Monday “heavy losses” following the country’s participation in the Gulf blockade, which has been imposed on Qatar for the second year in a row. “The cessation of [ More … ]
Behind the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi lies a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Eventually, this rage in the royal [ More … ]
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