It is crucial that Washington and the international community work together to find a political solution in Yemen that appeases local actors while also restraining Saudi and Emirati influence in the country Six years after [ More … ]
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that America is considering replacing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan. Friedman made the comments yesterday in an interview with ‘Israel Today’ newspaper, which [ More … ]
By: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Planning is not a dream in the void. However, one of the initial steps of proper planning is to know the correct data about resources and needs. Egypt’s Ministry of Planning, [ More … ]
A source from the Ministry of Finance revealed Egypt’s plan for early 2018 to return to the international financial markets and borrow $4bn to cover a budget deficit. The source told Bloomberg that the ministry [ More … ]
Donald Trump and top Saudi officials discussed removing Turkey from the Syrian equation and shifting the headquarters of the Syrian opposition’s headquarters from Istanbul to Riyadh Details of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia visit, [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* I know my headline is quite provocative. I know that nobody will even attempt such a thing, that our thousand-year-old Anatolian history is witness to the kind of price that will be paid for opening to debate even an [ More … ]
The Israeli security cabinet voted on Wednesday to postpone discussions regarding plans to expand the Palestinian city of Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank, weeks after Israeli officials condemned the planned construction. According to [ More … ]
Ankara has criticized the U.S. government for not having a clear plan for the operation that will be launched in the Daesh-held Syrian town of Raqqa, and added that Turkey will not allow the formation [ More … ]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday evening that he had taken preliminary steps to establish a new illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank to house settlers residing in Amona, on the same [ More … ]
The statement didn’t mention the United States or Trump by name Foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday indirectly condemned plans by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy [ More … ]
Russia must make Syrian regime avoid violating ceasefire, Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu says during visit to UN HQ Turkey’s foreign minister has called on Russia to keep the Syrian regime to its pledge of complying with a [ More … ]
The first order that Avigdor Lieberman gave when he entered the Army Ministry in Tel Aviv, was to complete an operative plan to defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel Pulse news site reported. Lieberman [ More … ]
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