Tunisia said Saturday it had replaced two senior officials in a southeastern region, days after protesters there booed the prime minister off stage following weeks of demonstrations. Tunisia has faced a wave of protests and [ More … ]
An official presidential decree dismissing Aden’s governor and a cabinet minister caused a stir in the southern city on Friday. Demonstrators gathered in Yemen’s temporary capital on Friday to protest against President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s [ More … ]
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranian voters not to let the progress achieved in his role be gone, warning that they could face greater authoritarianism if they replace him with a hardline rival in May’s election. [ More … ]
The European Union is approaching Iran to signal to its commitment to the nuclear deal despite Trump’s latest remarks, and holding out the promise of its economic payoff ahead of May 19 presidential polls, EU [ More … ]
Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui called on Brazil to participate in mega-projects Tunisia plans to achieve under the 2016-2020 investment plan. He had several meetings with senior officials in Brazil during the last day of his [ More … ]
U.S.-backed Kurdish militias on Sunday they had made a big advance in Tabqa city near Islamic state’s stronghold in Raqqa in northern Syria, according to their sources and a war monitor. At the height of its [ More … ]
The case of Syrian refugees stranded on the border between Algeria and Morocco continues to cause controversy. For the Minister in charge of Moroccans Residing Abroad and Immigration Affairs, Abdelkrim Benatiq, these refugees are not [ More … ]
Iran’s six candidates for the presidential election met in their first live television debate on Friday, where they showed off their plans, and their chances of winning started to be clear. Iran made a historic [ More … ]
Iran’s six candidates for the presidential election squared off in their first live television debate on Friday, where the current president Rouhani was put under heavy criticism over his economic policy. Iran made a historic [ More … ]
The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Friday has called on the government and opposition parties to commit to a rational political practice after the formation of the new government during this week. Al-Bashir, who addressed the [ More … ]
Extremist Israelis from the illegal Yitzhar settlement in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus attacked Palestinian residents in the village of Urif on Saturday, sparking further clashes between Palestinians locals and the Israeli [ More … ]
A US airstrike in Yemen killed on Sunday eight operatives of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), including a key leader, said the Pentagon. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman, said the airstrike on April [ More … ]
Iran has summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in Tehran to protest against killing border guards by militants attacking from neighboring Pakistan. On Wednesday, 10 Iranian border guards were killed and two others injured in an ambush attack near the town [ More … ]
Turkish President said that he hopes Turkey and the U.S. will open a new page under Trump and that Turkish-backed forces should be used to retake Raqqa from ISIS rather than Kurdish militia Ankara views as [ More … ]
As the cross-border clashes continued between the Turkish military and Syria’s Kurdish militias, the US forces started patrolling the border region and US officials visited the area to evaluate the situation. Turkey’s military operation in Syria [ More … ]
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