After detention in UAE, human rights groups had feared Sherif Osman would be extradited to Egypt and face imprisonment and torture after calling for protests on 11 November The Egyptian-American national arrived in the United [ More … ]
The American FY 2023 appropriations bill has been released, with more conditions placed on the military aid for Egypt, as the Congress has again strengthened the aid conditions. The U. S. Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations [ More … ]
Egypt is holding up the implementation of the agreement over the two strategic Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, according to Axios, an American news website. The Red Sea islands agreement had paved the [ More … ]
Despite widespread calls for President Biden to use the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to pressure Egypt’s Sisi on human rights, the last day of the summit instead featured a warm embrace between the two leaders and [ More … ]
Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
The Bashar Al-Assad Syrian regime has once again renewed its accusation of “stealing oil” from fields in the north-east of the country by the United States, state-run SANA news agency reports. “The American forces brought [ More … ]
A new Quincy Institute report examines one of the largest and most well financed foreign influence operations inside the United States. UAE meddling in U.S. politics is now a national security concern, according to a [ More … ]
New intelligence collected from downed Iranian drones in Ukraine shows that a majority of the aircrafts’ parts are manufactured by companies in the U.S., Europe and other allied nations, reported the Wall Street Journal. This [ More … ]
“The United Arab Emirates steered U.S. foreign policy in its favor through a series of legal and illegal exploits, according to an unprecedented U.S. intelligence document,” says John Hudson. In what was described as the [ More … ]
The White House has announced that U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Egypt on 11 November to attend Cop27 in Sharm El Sheikh, the same day Egyptian authorities are aggressively trying to prevent a [ More … ]
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Monday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of appreciation to Egypt when he received the credentials of new foreign ambassadors in Moscow, including the new Egyptian ambassador to Russia, Nazih al-Nagari, reported Egypt Independent, an [ More … ]
Egypt’s annual military assistance is a test of the US administration’s ability to balance human rights considerations with the American strategic interests. Meanwhile, the Sisi regime is keen to expedite the national dialogue, in attempt [ More … ]
US lawmakers say the British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah is “in desperate need of immediate intervention to help secure his freedom. Egypt Human Rights caucus co-chairs Representative Malinowski and Representative Don Beyer have released a letter [ More … ]
Families of American detainees in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt have called on US President Joe Biden to help with their release during his scheduled tour of the Middle East this month. The [ More … ]
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