Cairo - On Monday, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was killed by a terrorist gunman in Ankara. Asked to comment on the shocking murder, Egyptian lawmaker Mahmoud Badr told Sputnik that unfortunately, Karlov's death can be seen as a tragic (...)
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Daesh(ISIS)-linked group planning terrorist attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the FSB press service said Saturday.
According to the terrorist group's members' admissions, they were linked to (...)
Egyptian authorities have implemented most airport security measures demanded by Russia with the remaining ones to be put in place in coming weeks, an aide to the Egyptian interior minister, Hisham Bastawi, said on Friday.
A biometric system of (...)
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich expressed hope for the resumption of flights between Egypt and Russia by the end of this year at a press conference on Thursday.
"I hope so. At least, the situation in the airport of Cairo has (...)
Russia's airport safety inspections in Egypt proved to be constructive, with at least one additional review on the agenda, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Friday.
"We held constructive talks with the minister, the team of involved agencies (...)
The delegation also includes Ayman Muqaddam, the head of the Egypt-led A321 crash investigation committee, as well as Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi, the Middle East News Agency reported.
Earlier in July, Fathi visited Moscow and held a (...)
The problems that Italy's major banks have been facing recently could well cost Prime Minister Matteo Renzi his post, push the country towards an Italexit scenario and wreak havoc on the whole European banking sector, according to financial (...)
It was previously reported that militia downed a French helicopter outside Benghazi on Sunday, killing two French soldiers.
"The Minister of Defense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, laments the loss of three French non-commissioned officers [NCOs] who died on (...)
All five sites protected by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Libya were included on the List of World Heritage in Danger, the organization said in a statement on Thursday.
The 40th session of the UNESCO committee, (...)
Daesh has gone to great lengths to present itself as a legitimate force, rather than a terrorist group and the establishment of a quasi-state has been instrumental in these efforts. But as the militants continue to lose ground in Iraq and Syria, (...)
While the United Kingdom has not yet recovered from the results of the referendum on Brexit, US companies are already planning to release products using the term "Brexit" as their logo.
For instance, the Boston Beer Company applied for permission to (...)
US State Secretary John Kerry said that nobody in Turkey or beyond saw the military coup that rocked the country on Friday night coming. But how did Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) miss the signs of the looming (...)
According to the NTV broadcaster, ten out of 188 judges have been detained so far.
Late on Friday, Turkish authorities said that an attempted coup is taking place in the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkish citizens to take (...)
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the situation in Turkey following military coup attempt there, a source in the government said Saturday.
The plane of the Greek minister made a stop in Moscow (...)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview released Thursday that his Russian ally has "never" discussed a political transition with him, despite international support for such a process.
Speaking to NBC News in Damascus, the embattled (...)
The military operations against the last hideouts of ISIS in Sirte are in high gear, the spokesperson of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos has declared, adding that the radical group is likely to collapse in the coming few days.
Brigadier Mohammed Al-Gosri told (...)
During its anti-Netanyahu campaign the OneVoice used its political infrastructure including voter contact lists, professionally trained organizers and social media platforms, developed with the help of the US grant.
"The Israeli and Palestinian arms (...)
The German authorities decided to evacuate 100 German citizens, as well as other nationals from South Sudan, the German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday.
"The Security Council took a decision to evacuate German, European and other (...)
Incoming UK Prime Minister Theresa May - whose top task is to negotiate Britain's exit from the European Union - has much in common with Britain's first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was famous for savaging the Brussels machine.
In (...)
President of the so-called National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, Anas Abdah, called on Tuesday for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, which would consider the future of the Security Council resolutions on (...)
Yemen's Houthi rebels intend to return to the intra-Yemeni talks in Kuwait, Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam said Tuesday.
Talks between the Yemeni government and Houthis brokered by the United Nations have been held in Kuwait since April 21 (...)
The Syrian army with support of Russian combat planes will soon start advancing toward the city of Aleppo to fight and win a major battle in the war against terrorists, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad said Thursday.
"A key battle will be (...)
The US-based intelligence analysis company Stratfor said that the fact that no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the EgyptAir MS804 flight crash could possibly mean the accident has been caused by a technical failure rather than a (...)
France does not put forward any versions of the causes of the EgyptAir MS804 flight crash after reports on smoke aboard the plane before it disappeared from radar screens, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Saturday.
Earlier in the day, (...)
The Egyptian commission investigating this week's EgyptAir plane crash has requested from France the recordings of all conversations from flight MS804 between the pilots and air traffic controllers, commission head Ayman Mukaddam said.
On Thursday, (...)