The flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi was the first direct commercial flight between the two countries The first official direct flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates landed on Monday, ahead of [ More … ]
An airliner carrying Israeli and US delegations to the UAE on Monday flew over Saudi Arabia as the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space, reported Reuters. Israel’s flag carrier El [ More … ]
Tensions between NATO members Greece and Turkey escalated again. Both sides are staging navy drills. In a message on NAVTEX, the international maritime navigational system, Turkey said it would carry out “gunnery exercises” from Saturday [ More … ]
Investigation reveals that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind the lethal drone strike that killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libyan capital Tripoli The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind a [ More … ]
Egypt’s National Elections Authority said boycotting the Senate vote should result in prosecution Egypt’s election commission on Wednesday announced it would refer around 45 million citizens who did not vote in this month’s Senate elections to [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arrived in Sudan Tuesday on a one-day visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. SUNA said Ahmed was received at Khartoum airport by his [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan today, Tuesday, as part of a regional tour to urge Arab states to normalize ties with Israel despite widespread opposition. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Sudan on [ More … ]
Haftar’s militias dismiss ceasefire announcement as ‘marketing’ stunt, says GNA is planning a Turkish-backed offensive on Sirte Renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces have dismissed a ceasefire announcement by Libya’s internationally recognized government as a [ More … ]
Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]
A Libyan government statement on Friday ordered an immediate cease-fire for all military forces and combat operations in the war-torn country. “Cease-fire requires demilitarization of the Sirte and Jufra regions with security arrangements,” the statement [ More … ]
President Erdogan says 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves found by drillship Fatih in the Black Sea. Turkey’s president on Friday announced the discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea, [ More … ]
Amnesty International calls upon authorities to allow family visits as well as regular contacts with lawyers to all detainees in Sisi’s prisons Amnesty has called on the coup authorities in Egypt to allow all detainees [ More … ]
Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents An internal breach at Twitter Inc. a half decade ago yielded data that was later used by Saudi Arabia to [ More … ]
Salim Jamil Ayyash found guilty of committing a terrorist attack and murder over the killing of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, and 21 others in 2005 The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on [ More … ]
The UAE State Security Agency has secretly arrested scores of Emiratis, Palestinians and Jordanians living in the UAE for opposing Abu-Dhabi’s peace deal with Israel. The Emirates Leaks website quoted human rights sources as saying [ More … ]
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