Saudi Arabia is reportedly searching for a resolution to the three-year long Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] crisis as a way to enhance relations with the incoming Biden presidency, according to a report published in the Financial Times. [ More … ]
Deadly fighting involving southern breakaway group follows breakdown in power-sharing talks in August Clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and pro-government forces in Yemen’s Abyan province killed 13 fighters, according to military sources. The infighting late on Friday between [ More … ]
A high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in an ambush near Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Friday. Fakhrizadeh was shot “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Absard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, later succumbing [ More … ]
Turkey and Qatar signed 10 new deals on Nov. 26 at a joint meeting held at the presidential palace in Ankara. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatar’s Emir Tamim Hamad al-Thani co-chaired the closed-door meeting. The 10% sale of [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park. Last month, the [ More … ]
For the first time in history, Kuwait’s oil revenues will not cover salaries and subsidies, which could spell financial trouble. When Kuwait emerged from a months-long coronavirus lockdown, hundreds of Kuwaitis flocked to reopened stores, [ More … ]
UK foreign Secretary says Houthis must ‘cease their aggression’ following attack which triggered explosion but left no injuries An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in the Red Sea city [ More … ]
Egyptian social media activists have circulated leaked videos from inside one of the palaces of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi under construction in the El Alamein region, north of the country. Journalist and TV presenter Moataz Matar [ More … ]
The detention of a third employee of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, and of Coptic activist Ramy Kamel have raised international concern over human rights conditions, especially the Sisi regime’s disrespect of the fundamental [ More … ]
All the world leaders have seen in the G20 summit which is currently held in Saudi Arabia (virtually due to COVID 19 pandemic situation), however, There was mounting pressure on world leaders to boycott this [ More … ]
Karim Ennarah was detained in the resort town of Dahab in South Sinai while on vacation, EIPR said in a statement Egyptian authorities arrested a human rights defender on Wednesday, just a few days after his colleague [ More … ]
A Bahrain government delegation led by its foreign minister has landed in Tel Aviv on its first official visit from the Gulf kingdom, which normalized relations with Israel in September. Abdullatif Al Zayani was welcomed [ More … ]
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically hit global demand for oil this year, leaving the company’s debt levels spiralling Saudi Aramco is to sell billions of dollars in international bonds in a bid to bolster its [ More … ]
Germany’s Public Prosecutor General (GBA) said on Monday charges of espionage have been filed against an Egyptian-born German citizen who worked at the German government press office and gathered information for an Egyptian intelligence agency. [ More … ]
A new mass grave was found in Libya’s southwestern city of Tarhuna that was recently liberated from warlord Khalifa Haftar’s militia, the Libyan government said Sunday. “The grave was discovered in Alrabet area, a former [ More … ]
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