A million liters of fuel provided by Egyp is set to enter the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday via the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt in order to assist the territory with a crippling [ More … ]
The renewed three-month state of emergency will start on July 10. It comes after twin church bombings in April claimed 45 lives. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church [ More … ]
The Sudanese government on Wednesday denied media reports that the decision to ban the Egyptian agricultural products has been reversed. The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) has quoted the state minister of commerce Al-Sadiq Mohamed [ More … ]
Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
Israeli authorities implemented a third round of electricity supply cuts to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — honoring a request from the Palestinian Authority (PA) that announced last month it would drastically reduce its payments [ More … ]
The Abraaj Capital Limited (ACLD) – a member of The UAE Abraaj Group that is authorised and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) – has been gradually expanding its influence on health institutions [ More … ]
The embargo against Qatar has greatly benefited Israel, as Tel-Aviv’s priority is to end the resistance in Gaza. Israel has gained significantly from the Qatar crisis by deepening the separation between Arab countries, diverting attention [ More … ]
A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years. [ More … ]
As the Gaza Strip marked the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s siege of the small Palestinian enclave on Thursday, the humanitarian situation has continued to alarm rights groups, which have denounced the “inhuman conditions unparalleled in [ More … ]
BY: MOHAMMAD PERVEZ BILGRAMI* The terror list prepared in scope of the Qatar boycott is another attempt by Gulf nations to increase tensions in the region A list containing the names of 59 Qatar-based or [ More … ]
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said the ongoing crisis between Gulf states was artificial. ‘It is a fabricated and artificial dispute,’ he said. “There is no crisis between two states, or a state and [ More … ]
Egypt looks set to go ahead with the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, after a parliamentary committee agreed to the transfer. Egypt’s parliamentary committee gave the green light for the [ More … ]
The Gaza Ministry of Interior and Internal Security recommended in a statement on Tuesday evening a series of new and additional procedures “to enhance the state of security at the southern borders with Egypt.” The [ More … ]
Two Red Sea islands will be transferred from Egypt to Saudi Arabia control this week, with Israel approving of the deal. Israel says it backs the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands from Egyptian [ More … ]
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