Palestinian factions met Sunday in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts as violence in the occupied West Bank surged between Israel and Palestinian militants. The main groups, Hamas and Fatah, have been split since 2007 and [ More … ]
Turkiye-Syria ties could develop in the future in a similar manner to how Turkiye developed ties with Egypt, Turkish President said Sunday. “Just as Turkiye-Egypt relations started to normalize, in the next period it can [ More … ]
Kuwait continues its efforts to put an end to the three year blockade Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said officials are on the move to solve the Gulf crisis, affirming the country will not stop its efforts until the illegal land, [ More … ]
Libya is preparing for a wary political solution. Despite a normative political solution to the Libyan conflict, a surprising resignation announcement and mass protests took place in the territory of the U.N.-backed Government of National [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asked his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to support the internal Palestinian reconciliation efforts and the plans for Palestinian elections. The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that Abbas spoke [ More … ]
There have been much talk about alleged reconciliation efforts between the regime and the Muslim Brotherhood, but soon they are denied by both parties Every now and then, we hear about initiatives for reconciliation between [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
The head of the Palestinian police said on Wednesday that Hamas must disarm to allow a landmark reconciliation deal signed last month with rivals Fatah to succeed. The head of the Palestinian Authority police said [ More … ]
Israeli officials presented mix reactions to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement on Thursday, with leaders both criticizing and welcoming the landmark agreement. Israeli media reported that following the announcement from the Hamas and Fatah movements that [ More … ]
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement on Thursday to end a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt. Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement on Thursday to end a [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with a delegation of Hamas deputies of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on Monday to discuss ways to end the decade-long political rivalry between the Hamas movement, [ More … ]
Fayez Al- Serraj met the tribal leaders for a second round of talks to discuss how to bring the two halves of the country back together under a civilian government. The UN-backed president of Libya [ More … ]
Al-Sisi is warming his relations with Gulf countries under U.S blessings. Weeks after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ visit to Egypt, al-Sisi started his Gulf tour amid Trump’s administration’s new agenda to renew its pact with [ More … ]
Direct and indirect communications are underway between Fatah and Hamas leaders, Azzam Ahmad, a member of Fatah’s central committee said on Thursday. The move, according to Fatah’s Azzam Ahmad, is to enable the two movements [ More … ]
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