ISIS militants forced control on Thursday over many Assad regime forces’ checkpoints in Homs eastern countryside with sudden swift blows, according to Amaq, ISIS’ main propaganda agency. Amaq confirmed that 20 Assad militants were immediately [ More … ]
Bashar al-Assad, the current Syrian president and the root cause of the Syrian crisis, said in an interview to be broadcast on Friday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his government covertly [ More … ]
About 500 Syrian refugees in Lebanon were arrested by the Lebanese Army. They were arrested on Wednesday under many charges following the bombs which took place in the border city al-Qaa two days before, Sham [ More … ]
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to suspend Saudi Arabia from the U.N. Human Rights Council until a Saudi-led military coalition stops killing civilians in Yemen. [ More … ]
Middle East Observer – Russia will support Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government. Getting to that point could [ More … ]
Has the dream about a democratic transition in Egypt become an illusion? Three years have passed since June 30, 2013, when General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ousted President Mohamed Morsi, based on a public move that was looking [ More … ]
By: Ahmed al- Baqry* A handsome young Egyptian youth in the late twenties walks in a steady pace inside the Reichstag building in Berlin, where the German Parliament “Bundestag” headquarters is located. He was one of [ More … ]
Justice Human Rights Organization –an independent rights organization- has released a report titled: “Bitter Recap” to document human rights violations in Egypt throughout the last 3 years, from (July 2013-July 2016) The report was released [ More … ]
Two months after recalling the Italian ambassador from Egypt in light of the unresolved murder of Giulio Regeni, the Italian Senate halts warplanes’ spare parts supplies to Egypt. On Wednesday, the Italian Senate voted to halt [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday reopened the Rafah border crossing with Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip for five days, in order to allow Gazans in urgent need to enter and exit the besieged Palestinian enclave. “The terminal was [ More … ]
Jordan Wednesday strongly denounced the two blasts that hit Ataturk Airport in Istanbul late Tuesday, which claimed the lives of 36 people and injured more than a hundred of innocent civilians. Government Spokesperson Mohammad Momani [ More … ]
Anadolu Agency reported that Relief supplies for the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip started being loaded Wednesday onto the Lady Leyla, a Panama-flagged ship, in Turkey’s southern port of Mersin. Under the deal, Turkey will be able [ More … ]
Israel’s security cabinet has approved an agreement with Turkey that will allow the two countries to restore full diplomatic relations following a six-year hiatus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a Wednesday statement, [ More … ]
After a long delay, Egypt’s Court has postponed a verdict in the mass trial of Irish juvenile Ibrahim Halawa and 493 other prisoners, who were arrested after the military coup in 2013. There were expectations [ More … ]
Multiple Palestinians were among the victims of Tuesday’s triple suicide bombings at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, which left 36 dead and more than 140 injured, the ambassador of Palestine to Turkey said on Wednesday. A Palestinian [ More … ]
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