The United States will provide security assistance to Egypt despite the repression practiced by the Sisi regime against dissent, says Human Rights Watch. Doing so, the rights watchdog states, the Biden Administration is waiving human [ More … ]
The United States plans to withhold $85 million in military aid to Egypt because of Cairo’s failure to meet the U.S. conditions on freeing political prisoners and other issues, reported Reuters, citing a congressional notification [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests targeting critics ahead of a pivotal American decision on military aid. This is “seen as a key indicator of how the Biden administration will balance security [ More … ]
Although Egypt had previously dropped plans to send rockets to Russia under Washington’s pressure, yet it resists the United States’ calls to arm Ukraine, according to Wall Street Journal. The U.S. had managed to convince [ More … ]
The role of human rights conditions in U.S. military assistance to Egypt has been explained by a fact sheet issued by POMED. The fact sheet, “Human Rights Conditions on U.S. Military Aid to Egypt Under [ More … ]
UAE has announced it had stopped participating in the security group after Iran seized two tankers in the Persian Gulf recently. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Wednesday, May 31, that it had stopped [ More … ]
The Iranian judiciary on Friday stated that three men were executed after being convicted of participating in the most recent protests. It added that Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed in the [ More … ]
Ties with Damascus are being normalised, as the bloc hopes for an ‘Arab-led political path’ to solve the Syrian crisis. The Arab League readmitted Syria on Sunday after more than a decade of suspension, consolidating [ More … ]
China has resumed construction work on a military base in the United Arab Emirates in defiance of objections by the United States, revealed intelligence documents. Leaked US intelligence documents that Washington Post has obtained show [ More … ]
As Egypt nearly supplied rockets to Russia, it later agreed to arm Ukraine instead, a new leak shows Egypt made detailed plans to export rockets at Moscow’s request, but after a diplomatic offensive from Washington, [ More … ]
Washington’s insistence on staying in Syria under the pretext of “containing ISIS” is rather weak, says Fulbright scholar Ali Demirdas. The Iranian drone strike against the American military base in northern Syria that killed one [ More … ]
China’s prestigious accomplishment vaults it into a new league diplomatically and outshines anything the US has been able to achieve in the region since Biden came to office, states NYT. “The agreement negotiated in Beijing [ More … ]
The surprise deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties offers much for the United States to be intrigued about, an analysis by Reuters states, in comment on restoration of Saudi-Iranian relations. This [ More … ]
On the eve of Blinken’s Middle East tour, Israel carried out drone strikes on an Iranian factory. The attack comes amid growing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and its continued supply of weapons to Russia, [ More … ]
After detention in UAE, human rights groups had feared Sherif Osman would be extradited to Egypt and face imprisonment and torture after calling for protests on 11 November The Egyptian-American national arrived in the United [ More … ]
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