Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Saudi counterpart at a regional conference in Jordan on Wednesday This meeting is the first highest-level public contact between the two countries since they severed the diplomatic [ More … ]
Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]
Al-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in New York on Monday to discuss the Middle East peace process in the first ever public meeting between the two leaders. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
With expectations surrounding US peace efforts low among Palestinian leadership, Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, has arrived in the region, where he and other members of a US delegation met [ More … ]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Iran wielded growing influence in Syria that was a “threat” to his country as he met Russian President Vladimir Putin, a figure in the Syrian crisis. “Iran [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with a delegation of Hamas deputies of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on Monday to discuss ways to end the decade-long political rivalry between the Hamas movement, [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed Jordanian King Abdullah II in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Abbas and Abdullah held a closed-door meeting at the [ More … ]
The joint Sudanese-Russian high-level committee for political consultation would meet in Moscow on Thursday, said Sudan’s official news agency SUNA. The state agency on Wednesday reported that the meeting would discuss ways to enhance political, [ More … ]
Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry would chair the meeting of the joint Sudanese-Egyptian political consultation committee in Khartoum on Wednesday, said Sudan’s Foreign Ministry. In a press release on [ More … ]
An east Libyan minister has been pictured meeting with two prominent Israelis over the weekend. The Minister of Media, Culture and Antiquities for the General National Congress in the eastern Beida authority, Omar Al-Gawairi, who [ More … ]
A secret meeting was held last year in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, between Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported Monday that Israeli opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog [ More … ]
After a telephone call with Qatar’s Emir, Donald Trump has allegedly agreed to a possible White House meeting to calm ongoing tensions between the Arab states. US President Donald Trump has allegedly agreed to a [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday morning. Palestinian presidential guard spokesman Ghassan Nimr told local media [ More … ]
The much-anticipated US-GCC Summit has kicked off as US President Donald Trump sat down with Gulf leaders and officials at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh. Minutes before the commencement of the meeting, US [ More … ]
Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Dubai and met a billionaire business partner in the city-state, discussing “new ideas” as the Emirati’s real estate firm still lists possible plans for future joint projects while Trump’s father [ More … ]
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