France is selling another 30 Rafale fighter jets to Egypt in a deal condemned last Tuesday by rights advocates, including the French wife of a jailed activist. The deal, confirmed separately by both countries, will [ More … ]
Earlier Monday, the investigative website Disclose said the deal was worth €3.75 billion ($4.52 billion). Egypt signed an agreement to purchase 30 Rafale fighter jets from France, according to the country’s armed forces spokesperson on [ More … ]
The Turkish and French presidents have exchanged letters in which they have agreed to resume talks aimed at mending ties. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote a New Year message to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, [ More … ]
Calls to boycott French products are growing in the Middle East and the Islamic world after France President Emmanuel Macron said his country “will not give up cartoons” depicting the Prophet Mohammad and ‘Islamists will [ More … ]
Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he was a possible candidate to head a new government to stem the country’s economic collapse after a massive port explosion. French President Emmanuel Macron last month extracted [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan protects his nation’s interests while his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron “sells out France”, Prominent French philosopher Michel Onfray told The Independent Turkish in an interview published Thursday. Speaking to The [ More … ]
The collapse of Libyan militiaman Khalifa Haftar’s offensive against the capital Tripoli thanks to Turkish military intervention has exposed Europe’s inability to shape the conflict at its borders and left France trying to hedge its [ More … ]
Turkey will continue its anti-terror operation in northeast Syria if an agreement with the United States to pause the operation and allow the withdrawal of People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorists is not fully implemented, Turkish [ More … ]
Unannounced visit comes as France ramps up efforts to ease tensions between Iran and US over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran‘s top diplomat has held talks with France‘s President Emmanuel Macron at the sidelines of the [ More … ]
Macron visited Egypt in January, and reportedly pressed Sisi on his rights record and urged him to respect freedoms Rights groups Thursday urged French President Emmanuel Macron to denounce the “worsening human rights crisis” under [ More … ]
Leaders from across the world gathered in Paris to mark Nov. 11 Armistice Day. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted [ More … ]
Four main Libyan political leaders attended a peace conference in Paris on Tuesday and agreed to hold elections in December Libyan rival factions agreed on Tuesday to hold elections on 10 December. The agreement was [ More … ]
US hits ‘Syrian Military Sites’, in collaboration with UK and France, as Russia and Iran warn of consequences. US President Donald Trump has ordered air attacks in Syria “on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities”, in collaboration with [ More … ]
President Erdogan travels to Paris on Friday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron while Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will be heading to the hometown of his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel, on Saturday in a [ More … ]
Lebanese PM Saad al-Hariri had been in Riyadh since announcing his resignation there on 4 November Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Paris on Saturday [ More … ]
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