The United States-led international coalition’s operation to recapture Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) started on the night of June 2, Turkey’s prime minister has said, informing that Washington briefed [ More … ]
Saudi King Salman thanked US President Donald Trump and leaders of Arab and Islamic countries who participated in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) consultative meeting, the GCC-US Summit and the Arab-Islamic-American Summit hosted by Riyadh. [ More … ]
Two members of a shady Islamist group with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group were killed in a Sunday raid in Sidi Bouzeid, 200 km south-west of Tunis. Tunisian security officials killed two [ More … ]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the Kingdom on Sunday for two days to discuss issues of mutual interests with the Saudi leadership, according to Ambassador Dieter W. Haller. “She’ll meet with Custodian of the [ More … ]
Arab interior ministers on Wednesday met for their 34th session in Tunis, Tunisia, under the patronage of President Beji Caid Essebsi. The Saudi delegation was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, honorary president of [ More … ]
Algeria and Tunisia were “strongly and totally” coordinating their efforts to counter security threats, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said Thursday in Tunis, ensuring that the two countries will join stability and security whatever the price [ More … ]
The Director of the United Nations and Inter-regional Conferences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Belaoura stressed Algeria’s interest in world security stemmed from the principle of international solidarity and its role “a stabilizer [ More … ]
Saudi assistant defense minister Lt. Gen. Ahmed Abdullah Ayesh ended on Monday a surprise visit to Djibouti, where he met with Djiboutian defense minister Ali Hassan Bahdon. During the visit, the two sides discussed ways to [ More … ]
Janet Heckman was appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as its new Managing Director for the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region. Ms. Heckman has met Egypt’s iternational cooperation minister. Ms Heckman [ More … ]
A security delegation from the besieged Gaza Strip headed on Tuesday evening to Egypt via the Rafah crossing to meet with Egyptian officials. Sources said that Hamas security delegation led by Major Tawfiq Abu Naim, head of [ More … ]
Raid by security forces successfully carried out after a shootout with the suspects Two suspects blew themselves up on Saturday during a firefight with security forces in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in western [ More … ]
European Union’s demand for changing anti-terror laws as key condition for visa-free travel poses security risks for Turkey and EU, Turkey’s EU min says Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs Omer Celik said Wednesday there was no [ More … ]
Musa al-Koni, the deputy leader of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), announced his resignation yesterday Al-Koni said the U.N.-backed administration had failed to tackle urgent problems arising from years of conflict and political disarray. [ More … ]
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have expressed their discontent with the involvement of Qatar’s name in the bombing of St Peter church in Cairo, considering it as “unacceptable”. In this context, Abdul Latif Al [ More … ]
BY: Kemal Öztürk* President Erdogan, last week, personally stated that there is a paradigm change in Turkey’s foreign affairs and security policies, particularly in the Middle East. I wrote about this, stating that an “Erdoğan [ More … ]
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