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Qatar likely to host Iran-US nuclear deal talks amid reports on Israeli defense alliance

June 26, 2022 MEO Staff

Qatar is most likely to host the upcoming talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the European Union, to close the remaining gaps in efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal. This comes amid [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

KSA: Amid Biden’s plans to visit Riyadh, calls to speak truth to MBS on rights concerns

June 11, 2022 MEO Staff

Human rights are escalating calls on US President to press MBS for immediate release of political prisoners and stop violations against regime critics, at a time when US is reportedly seeking full “reset” of relations [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen: US official report says Washington failed to assess war’s civilian casualties

June 9, 2022 MEO Staff

A US official report states that the Saudi-led coalition’s deadly attacks from 2015-2021 used jets and munitions largely supplied and maintained by the United States According to the New York Times which saw the US [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

‘French arms makers complicit in Yemen war crimes’, 3 rights groups say

June 3, 2022 MEO Staff

Three NGOs have announced that they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms’ producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen after selling weapons to KSA and the UAE, according [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. approves large arms sales to Egypt, most recently anti-tank missiles

May 21, 2022 MEO Staff

Despite its dire human rights record and its serious economic situation, the Biden administration has approved a potential sale of anti-tank missiles and other equipment to Egypt. The U.S. administration on Thursday informed Congress that [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

U.S.-Saudi current standoff, an opportunity to rethink future relations, report

April 2, 2022 MEO Staff

The present stalemate over oil production offers U.S. policymakers an opportunity to rethink the future course of US-Saudi bilateral relationship In recent weeks, as Western sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine have roiled [ More … ]

Analysis

U.S. Middle East allies show limited support for Ukraine, report

March 28, 2022 MEO Staff

Amid Middle East summit, U.S. allies, including Israel, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, and even Saudi Arabia that did not join the meeting have showed limited support for Ukraine. “In this war, Egypt is not — and [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi that phoned Putin to boost “strategic partnership” still receives $1.3-bln. US aid

March 10, 2022 MEO Staff

Instead of decrying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sisi phones Putin on “strategic partnership”. Meanwhile, the United States will again provide $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt—the same amount Congress has appropriated since 1987. As [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: US blocks $130 millions of aid to Cairo over human rights record

January 28, 2022 MEO Staff

The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Talks between UN and Saudi Arabia to end war in Yemen

January 21, 2022 MEO Staff

The United Nations Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, on Thursday met with the Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid Bin Salman Al-Saud, in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, where they discussed ways to end the [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

US arrests man for spying on opponents of Egypt’s Sisi

January 7, 2022 MEO Staff

US authorities have arrested a New York man who spied on political opponents of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Justice Department said. Pierre Girgis, 39, was charged in New York with acting illegally as an [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt turning famous Tahrir Square building into a luxury hotel

December 15, 2021 MEO Staff

A consortium of US-Emirati companies have won a bid to turn complex into a commercial project Mogamma el-Tahrir, a gigantic building in the heart of downtown Cairo, will be converted into a luxury hotel, according [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

US Congress’s Egypt Caucus urges investigating regime’s killing of smugglers by US equipment

December 6, 2021 MEO Staff

The US Congress’s Egypt Human Rights Caucus has called on the Biden administration to investigate reports about the Egyptian Air Force’s use of U.S.-supplied equipment to kill suspected smugglers The Congress’s Egypt Human Rights Caucus [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Biden blacklists Israeli NSO Group over Pegasus spyware scandal, report

November 4, 2021 MEO Staff

The US Commerce Department says the action of blacklisting NSO Group over Pegasus spyware is among efforts to put human rights at center of U.S. foreign policy The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. to withhold, restrict some military aid to Egypt for regime’s human rights violations

September 14, 2021 MEO Staff

This move from the Biden administration is a compromise that may disappoint some activists but nonetheless is arguably more human-rights-friendly than in the past. The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — [ More … ]

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