Egypt Central Bank Devalues the pound
The Central bank in Egypt has weakened the value of the Egyptian pound against the dollar Sunday for the second time in a week. The bank said in a statement that it dropped the value from [ More … ]
The Central bank in Egypt has weakened the value of the Egyptian pound against the dollar Sunday for the second time in a week. The bank said in a statement that it dropped the value from [ More … ]
Egyptians head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new pro-Sisi parliament. The election has been delayed and it will tighten President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s grip on power after he crushed all opposition since removing [ More … ]
The UAE paid a London-based public relations firm millions of pounds to lead attacks in the UK against Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other opponents of the Gulf state, according to a Mail on Sunday [ More … ]
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank as violence continued to grip the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian demonstrators marched from [ More … ]
Syrian troops, backed by Russian air power, and allied militias opened a new front against rebels around the second city of Aleppo on Friday, where up to 2,000 IranÂ-backed forces are deployed. The Aleppo offensive [ More … ]
Palestinians have torched a site in the West Bank revered by Jews and others worldwide in an incident that threatens to further inflame more than two weeks of deadly unrest, as new  protests were planned [ More … ]
Israeli forces have shot and killed two more Palestinians, with these two killings the total number of killed Palestinians in the last 15 days has increased to be at least 30 Palestinians. A young Palestinian [ More … ]
The Israeli authorities erected roadblocks and checkpoints in some Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem on Wednesday and deployed hundreds of police officers and soldiers on the roads and buses, a response to a wave of [ More … ]
The latest American plans to aid Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State hit an obstacle as Turkish officials summoned the American ambassador to express concern that the United States was providing new support to Kurdish [ More … ]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called an emergency meeting of top security officials and ministers after four attacks by Palestinians left three Israelis dead. It is the most intense eruption so far in two weeks [ More … ]
Jabhat al-Nusra, The Syrian war’s al-Qaida affiliate, has called for terror attacks in Russia, while also urging strikes on Alawite villages. The threats from the group’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, were made on Tuesday in [ More … ]
In an analysis in Al-Monitor author Ben Caspi notes that Israel is deeply divided during the wave of violence in the area. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always tries to grab the stick by both [ More … ]
The London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International is accusing the autonomous administration that runs the areas of northern Syria under Kurdish control known as Rojava of committing war crimes. In a 38-page report, “‘We Had Nowhere [ More … ]
Iraq may request Russian airstrikes against ISIS on its soil soon and the country wants Moscow to have a bigger role than the United States in the war against the militant group, the head of [ More … ]
Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet after Turkey’s worst ever bomb attack, writes Reuters in an analysis. “Modern Turkey’s most divisive leader has in the past had [ More … ]
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