Former MP and prominent Muslim Brotherhood politician Hisham Hanafi, 61, dies in prison from medical negligence, according to his family. Hisham al-Qadi Hanafi, a former Egyptian MP with the Muslim Brotherhood, died on Thursday in [ More … ]
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said he will not sit with putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar again, hoping that his supporters would review their decisions. Speaking in a broadcasted interview with Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, the head [ More … ]
The hangings came days after the largest mass execution in recent Egyptian memory Egyptian prison authorities executed five inmates on Tuesday. The prisoners had been sentenced to death, four of them allegedly over a bombing [ More … ]
The Astana process has deprived the Syrian opposition of an efficient bargaining chip in their negotiations with the regime for a political transition in Syria. In comparison, the Geneva discussions appear to have lost all [ More … ]
Turkey aims to ensure clashes are completely prevented in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, which will facilitate the political process in return, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Saturday. “Astana is a platform which in a way [ More … ]
Officials from Turkey and the European Union will meet June 13 in Brussels for a political dialogue meeting to review the current status of issues on their mutual agenda and to discuss ways of moving [ More … ]
The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Friday has called on the government and opposition parties to commit to a rational political practice after the formation of the new government during this week. Al-Bashir, who addressed the [ More … ]
Fitch rating downgrade move was described as ‘political’ by Turkish Labor Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu. Turkish Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu criticized ratings agency Fitch on Tuesday after it downgraded Turkey’s rating on Friday. [ More … ]
BY: Iyad Walid* There are predictions that the year ‘2017’ may carry political changes and transformations in the Middle East region, which has actually witnessed quality leaps over the past five years. The Middle East [ More … ]
By: İbrahim Karagül* The thing Turkey has been discussing over the dollar, the mobilization it has been carrying on through the national economy discourse, the joint solidarity it has been trying to form with economy [ More … ]
– No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing – A car-bomb explosion killed three people, including a political activist, and injured 21 others in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi late Saturday, according to Libyan [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has condemned upholding the verdicts issued against its Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and the group leaders, according to Anadolu Agency. The rulings are final and cannot be appealed. The Court [ More … ]
By: Erdal Tanas Karagöl* The attack that transpired in Gaziantep on Friday night once again showed us that Turkey’s enemies have no rules or moral values. The attack being committed on civilians, especially during a [ More … ]
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