Iran says it “categorically rejects” US claims that it is behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had blamed Iran for the “unprovoked attacks” on [ More … ]
The Trump administration seems to be preparing to circumvent Congress to allow the export to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of billions of dollars of munitions that are now on hold, according to [ More … ]
Turkey is face-to-face with a millennium-old showdown. It is under the threat of those who want to avenge the conquest of Istanbul, those who want to avenge Manzikert – which paved the way to the [ More … ]
After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week signaled that there isn’t an easy way out of the dispute that Trump’s [ More … ]
How inflammatory headlines, unnamed sources and decades of misinformation in the US media over Iran play their part. Hyped-up headlines, “anonymous” sources and unspecified threats – Iran is back in the news in the United States. It wouldn’t [ More … ]
Turkey has purchased the S-400 missiles. So, what now? Is the US going to attack us? What sort of a threat is this? What are you preparing for? – asks Ibrahim Karagul “If you buy [ More … ]
While Palestinians have rejected upcoming summit in Bahrain, UAE insists it ‘aims to lift the Palestinian people out of misery’ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia have welcomed an upcoming economic summit in [ More … ]
Turkey has a little more than two weeks to decide whether to complete a complex arms deal with the U.S. or risk severe penalties by going through with an agreement to buy a missile system [ More … ]
In late April, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would seek to have the State Department designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). How Designating It Would Undermine the United States. By: [ More … ]
The U.S. has dusted off plans to add the Muslim Brotherhood to its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Officials said a designation was being prepared after President Donald Trump in April hosted his Egyptian counterpart [ More … ]
U.S. leader reversed policy to support Gen. Haftar against the U.N.-backed government after urging by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi The administration of US President Donald Trump, under the [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump was only days into office in January 2017 when he first began considering a move with the potential to ignite a firestorm in the Middle East: designating the Muslim Brotherhood, a [ More … ]
The constitutional change paving the way for coup-plotter Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who took hostage his own country and people with armed forces, to physically preside over the Egyptian people until 2030 has been completed with no [ More … ]
The fight to stop Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ban is not about whether political Islam is a good or bad thing. It’s about protecting democracy at home and abroad He is not really embarrassed by what [ More … ]
The strong Egyptian-Israeli relations and the recent rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf, with the help of the U.S., have led the Trump administration to consider labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group In fact, [ More … ]
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