Yemen’s collapse derives from a combination of internal rivalries between elites, rising demands of a poor population, and international interventions, both from the neoliberal international financiers and the politically-motivated actors in support or opposition to [ More … ]
The new US secretary of state said that there was ‘overlap’ between Saudi Arabia and the US on how to deal with the Gulf crisis Washington’s new chief diplomat lashed out at Iran on Sunday [ More … ]
Former Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn has blamed the archaic colonial agreements over the use of the Nile waters for the prevailing stalemate his country has with Egypt. Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over [ More … ]
The International Work Group for Libya has slammed the UAE and Egypt for undermining the national reconciliation efforts in the country and failing the UNSMIL by bribing its employees to favor one political party over [ More … ]
A military court has sentenced Egypt’s former anti-corruption chief to five years in prison on charges of spreading false news harmful to the military, his lawyer said. Human rights group Amnesty International condemned the sentencing [ More … ]
Analysts say Saudi foreign minister’s comments are purely political and an attempt to ‘throw the hot potato on Doha’s lap’ The US government will stop protecting Qatar if the country doesn’t fund the American military [ More … ]
The Turkish prime minister said Wednesday Ankara is still committed to getting membership in the EU, adding that a thaw in relations with Russia is not an alternative to Europe. Binali Yildirim’s remarks came at [ More … ]
By: Yusuf Kaplan* Saudi Arabia “boiled over” the previous night. U.S. media suddenly spread coup rumours in the country. To be honest, a “coup” did happen in the country, but it happened a while ago. Crown Prince [ More … ]
On April 21, Egypt’s Parliament of Egypt passed legislation banning cultivation of crops that require high volumes of water, as concerns increase that the upstream Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will negatively impact water flow for [ More … ]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad is widely believed to have killed a number of Arab and Muslim scientists worldwide. A major function of the Israeli intelligence is obviously to follow the activities of the Arab nuclear [ More … ]
Egypt’s Cheif of Staff Mohamed Farid ended his official visit to Saudi Arabia after attending” Gulf Sheild 1″ joint military training. He also attended the meeting with US Central Command with the participation all the chiefs [ More … ]
Ghandour complained that Khartoum was unable to pay rent for several diplomatic missions amid government cash shortfall Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on Thursday fired his foreign minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, state media reported, after he said [ More … ]
By: Kemal Öztürk* In my opinion, this is one of the most congenial lines of the press world: “Behind the scenes of such and such an incident…” A mysterious, exciting and appealing sentence disclosing the unknown. [ More … ]
The parliamentary and presidential polls had previously been slated for November 2019. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for snap parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on June 24, more than a year earlier than [ More … ]
Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz concluded the 29th Arab League Summit in Dhahran at the King Abdelaziz International Cultural Center. Although the Arab League Summit was named “Jerusalem Summit”, however, Arab nations are pessimistic that [ More … ]
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