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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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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