Only one day after he publicly highlighted the case of unjustly imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer on 12 April, Antony Blinken welcomed Sameh Shoukry, describing the U.S.-Egypt relations as “strategic partnership”. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly highlighted the [ More … ]
No other dictatorship in the world gives more money to U.S. think tanks than the UAE, where major Emirati-funded DC policy organizations have said remarkably little about the country’s illicit influence. A report by Aditi [ More … ]
General Haftar, who controls Libya’s east, says his Libyan National Army ‘accepted the will of the people’!! Libya’s UN-recognised government accused rival military commander Khalifa Haftar of seeking to stage a new coup after he [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly had “frank and very productive” talks Wednesday. According to reports covering the Turkish President’s visit to Turkey, the bilateral talks between the two leaders [ More … ]
How has the UAE maintained its privileged status in Washington? In short, the UAE has a vast and immensely influential lobbying and public relations campaign in America that has allowed the monarchy to exert considerable [ More … ]
US officials say that President Donald Trump is just days away from stepping up confrontation with Iran by “decertifying” the 2015 nuclear accord. US President Donald Trump is set to announce next week that he [ More … ]
Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Monday that he plans to travel to the United States next week to discuss the impact of a rift with Gulf Arab states on its [ More … ]
Preceding events key to understanding the whole picture, Ambassador Kilic says of May 16 incident Protesters who clashed with Turkish Americans in Washington, D.C. during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit posed a threat to [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in China for two days to attend the inauguration ceremony of the “Belt and Road Forum,” which is taking place with the participation of 29 state leaders. [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Will the meeting today between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump be the start of a new era in Turkish-American relations? Can the greatest trust crisis – let’s [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Turkish delegation accompanying him arrived in Washington, D.C. on Monday where the Turkish president will meet his American counterpart Donald Trump. Erdoğan is expected to meet Trump at [ More … ]
The meeting will help the US deepen its cooperation with a key partner in the Middle East. US President Donald Trump will host Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and [ More … ]
Tunisia takes part in the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), April 21-23 in Washington. They will discuss with heads of the international financial institutions the economic [ More … ]
Ankara is in talks with Washington seeking the reversal or softening of the new US ban on electronic devices larger than cellphones in the cabin of US-bound flights from 10 airports in Muslim-majority countries, Turkey’s [ More … ]
In a radical departure from the United States’ long-held position in favor of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he could “live with either” a one- [ More … ]
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