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 … ]
Egypt has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old U.N. grains treaty, reported Reuters. The decision has caused consternation among other signatories to the convention. It follows a period [ More … ]
Foreign investors fleeing emerging markets following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have sold around $1.19 billion of Egyptian treasury bonds in just three days, with activity in the secondary market continuing on Tuesday, according to Reuters. [ More … ]
“Batel” Egyptian popular opposition campaign and movement says referendum should be held to annul Renaissance Dam agreement, known as Declaration of Principles (DoP), signed by Sisi in 2015. The Egyptian popular campaign “Batel” (Void), including [ More … ]
UN-backed GNA’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha says Khalifa Haftar now has ‘effectively zero’ chance of capturing capital Forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar withdrew from parts of the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight following [ More … ]
The US is removing four Patriot missile batteries and dozens of troops deployed to Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran, according to a report published Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The military assets were sent [ More … ]
Businessman Samir Khatib says country’s senior Sunni cleric told him during meeting on Sunday that he backed Hariri Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister on Sunday when [ More … ]
The UN General Assembly yesterday officially asked Israel to leave the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The request was made after the resolution was adopted after 91 UN member states voted in favor, nine rejected and [ More … ]
Lebanese President Michel Aoun is expected to hold binding consultations with members of parliament over next premier next Thursday Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri said on Tuesday that he did not want to be prime minister of [ More … ]
The U.S. has started withdrawal from military bases in the northeastern Syrian province of Al-Hasakah to northern Iraq. The move comes following a recent troop pullout from the cities of Raqqah, Ayn Al-Arab (Kobani) and [ More … ]
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has instructed security forces to withdraw from the northern cities of Al Hoceima and Imzouren after violent clashes erupted between police and protesters in the region. “Following royal directives, the law [ More … ]
Russia’s forces positioned in Afrin, where Turkey made extensive preparations to launch a military operation, are leaving the region. It is reported that the Russian army started to quit Afrin and its surrounding villages occupied [ More … ]
The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has released his much-anticipated annual report entitled “The Situation Concerning Western Sahara.” The report commends Morocco’s decision to withdraw from the Guerguerat region and calls on the Security [ More … ]
Renewable energy projects in Egypt face many obstacles after halting various projects that have started two years ago The number of companies that withdrew from the feed-in tariff projects increased to 29 companies. Investors -who [ More … ]
– Pentagon says YPG elements leaving Manbij as presidential envoy says group will exit after training local forces – The U.S. military said Wednesday that the PKK/PYD elements in the northern Syrian town of Manbij [ More … ]
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