Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that the United States, despite denying setting up local forces in northern Syria, is trying to form "alternative bodies of authority" that contradict a commitment to Syrian territorial (...)
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) decided on Tuesday to cancel maximum limits on dollar cash deposit and withdrawals for companies importing non-essential products according to insightful sources.
The central bank halted a deposit cap for companies at (...)
CEO of Banque du Caire Munir Al Zahed:
The Egyptian economy is capable of sustaining itself and reaching new levels of development; Arab support is a primary example of this. Banks are playing a major role in attracting foreign investments to Egypt (...)
Head of the High Elections Commission's operation room Ahmed Shawqi told Al-Masry Al-Youm that voter turnout for the runoff elections in most districts is “too low.”
Shawqi blamed the low turnout largely on the decision by the Wafd Party and the (...)
Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has announced his intention to boycott the 8th Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue conference. The three-day event is scheduled to begin on (...)
The break-up of the Palestinian nation is not something Arab powers should tolerate. Action is needed, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim*
Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), decided to dissolve the Palestinian (...)
A nuclear arms race in the Middle East would leave us all living in fear, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim*
Peace and security in the Middle East cannot be achieved without a political settlement, a suitable level of economic cooperation, and even-handed (...)
Stubbornly, the US and Israel still believe that force can dictate. In Lebanon, as in Iraq and Palestine, this policy will fail, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim*
Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers from northern Israel triggered events. The purpose (...)
The US is locked down in Iraq with only time left to tell which side of the equation, itself or the Iraqi resistance, will prevail, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim*
The military situation in Iraq, and the Middle East in general, is tied to transformations (...)
Unwilling to address why terrorism occurs, Western states are making it harder to eliminate political violence, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim*
Two events have brought the spectre of terror back to the fore: the assassination of Egypt's top diplomat in (...)
The Al-Azhar bombing should have come as no surprise. Ahmed Abdel-Halim* examines its causes and implications
By 6pm last Thursday the bazaar area close to Al-Azhar had been turned into a military garrison as security forces, forensic teams and (...)
Sleek, hugely expensive and state of the art; they reek of death all the same. Ahmed Abdel-Halim looks at WMBs, or weapons of massive brutality
The ultimate aim of armaments production is to achieve overwhelming technological superiority. This means (...)
Ahmed Abdel-Halim* examines spurious, and other, links in the chain
Ramadan this year arrived -- as it has arrived for as long as anyone can remember -- in a troubled Middle East. Israel has unleashed all its military might against the Palestinians, (...)
Ahmed Abdel-Halim* outlines ways to give impetus to moves to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction
During his visit to Israel on 6 July, Mohamed El-Baradie, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced that he did not expect (...)
Democratisation initiatives are coming thick and fast. But are they good enough for the region? Ahmed Abdel-Halim* urges gradualism
The issues of political and democratic reform have for a long time presented a considerable challenge to Egypt and (...)