The Egyptian pro-regime media have launched a severe campaign against the United States for its efforts to end the Qatar-Gulf rift and accused it of being Qatar’s partner in its policies. Amr Adib: ‘Qatar is [ More … ]
US secretary of state, while visiting Doha, says Qatar’s views in Gulf crisis have been clear and ‘very reasonable’. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Doha that the Qatari government had “reasonable” [ More … ]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Tuesday that it had [ More … ]
Moscow says its jets may have killed leader of world’s most notorious terror organisation in a May airstrike. If true it would be a major propaganda coup for the Russians. Moscow says its jets may [ More … ]
Qatar on Friday denounced a terrorism blacklist published by Saudi Arabia and its allies which linked individuals and organisations in Doha to support for militant groups, describing it as ‘baseless’. Qatar on Friday denounced a [ More … ]
Hamas rejects Saudi claim that it is a terror organization, says Saudi push to isolate it is ‘regrettable’; and Muslim Brotherhood blasts Saudi Arabia for Adel Al-Jubeir’s comments. Hamas on Wednesday responded to a demand [ More … ]
By: Ayşe Sözen* Turning the members of the Islamic world against each other with “threats of national security” will be the deepest destruction and longest-lasting harm that the West has inflicted on this region since the [ More … ]
Since the Friday attack on buses loaded with Coptic Christians that left at least 29 dead, Egyptians are saying that Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is unequipped to deal with terrorism in the country. Anti-Sisi Egyptian group [ More … ]
Egypt has sent “dozens of military personnel” to Libya to back its close ally Khalifa Haftar as Cairo presses ahead with attacks on alleged terrorist training camps in eastern Libya. Egypt has sent “dozens of [ More … ]
A car bomb killed at least nine people in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday morning, just hours after scores died in a massive explosion outside a popular ice cream shop. At least 27 people were [ More … ]
The Egyptian Armed forces have struck “terrorist training camps” in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians, said Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt’s state media said that six strikes hit the town of Derna in [ More … ]
In an interview with the Spanish news website “El Español”, Abdelhak Khiame, the Director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), has warned about the danger posed by jihadists returning from zones of conflicts. [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with European officials and the newly elected French President Emanuel Macron on the sidelines of a NATO summit, in which he is expected to seek more support from the [ More … ]
Egypt has banned 21 websites, including the main website of Qatar-based al Jazeera television, claiming that they are “supporting terrorism”, according to Reuters. Reuters said that it had tried to access five websites named by local [ More … ]
The United States ambassador to Egypt R. Stephen Beecroft said that his country’s support of Egypt in its fight against terrorism is “firm, ongoing and eager. During the annual meeting of the American Chamber of [ More … ]
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