Instead of moving against the existential danger posed by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian diplomacy moves for the arrest rights defender Mohamed Sultan!! Egypt’s spy chief Abbas Kamel has claimed that Washington signed [ More … ]
Former Member of Parliament Dr. Dardery has recently sent a letter to President Biden against the execution of innocents in Egypt after Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld their death sentences Dr. Abdul Mawgood Dardery, former [ More … ]
Erdogan told his US counterpart Joe Biden that Turkey will not backtrack on acquisition of Russian S-400 air defenses, or F-35s. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his US counterpart this week that Ankara will [ More … ]
Saudi embassy uses a network of ‘fixers’ and lawyers to help citizens accused of crimes leave the US, according to a Washington Post investigation. The Saudi embassy in Washington has been involved in helping Saudi [ More … ]
The Biden administration cleared the way for a massive arms sale to the United Arab Emirates, but Abu Dhabi’s growing ties to China reportedly could snarl the $23 billion deal, which includes the F-35 stealth [ More … ]
A growing US partisan divide over Israel-Palestine and a gap between public opinion and policymakers Most Americans and a significant majority of Democrats oppose unrestricted military aid to Israel if it continues to expand settlements in the occupied [ More … ]
Long before the ‘Abraham Accords’, Abu Dhabi was investing in the US and developing an intensive lobbying strategy in Washington. Eva Thiebaud, an independent journalist discusses a new report by Colin Powers in a recent [ More … ]
US President Joe Biden’s U-turn on ending US support for offensive operations in Yemen earlier this week with the resumption of arms sale to the UAE has been condemned as a “disastrous” move by Human Rights Watch [ More … ]
Blinken says human rights, transparency and accountability are at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy while releasing the Human Rights Report 2020 In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken [ More … ]
With elections looming in both states, and hardliners out to ensure the collapse of the 2015 deal, time is running short for the US president to save it, states a report by the Guardian. For [ More … ]
A recent op-ed of The Washington Post criticizes the US State Department’s approval of a $197 million sale of naval surface-to-air missiles to the Sisi regime, while ignoring Cairo’s human rights bad record. Since taking [ More … ]
US State Department says Washington is open to a possible meeting to ‘discuss a diplomatic way forward’ about Iran’s nuclear program The United States has said it would accept a European invitation to engage in [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration for the Egyptian government to improve its [ More … ]
US secretary of state decries killing of Jamal Khashoggi as ‘abhorrent’, and says administration is reviewing blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis US Secretary of State Antony Blinken decried the “abhorrent” murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and suggested [ More … ]
Qatar has reiterated its readiness to mediate between Iran and the United States days after newly elected President Joe Biden took office “Qatar is ready to mediate between Iran and the United States as the [ More … ]
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