The administration of US President Donald Trump has given the UAE a commitment that Washington would not recognise Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank until 2024 at the earliest, The Times of Israel reported, citing sources with direct (...)
The new agreements Turkey concluded with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Sarraj are illegal, head of the Libyan National Army's (LNA) mobilisation department told Sky News Arabia on Saturday, adding the deals (...)
South Korea's ambassador to Egypt Yoon Yeo-cheol affirmed that his country is ready to provide support and assistance to North Korea provided it gives up its nuclear weapons programme, citing the common history and language of the two Koreas.
The (...)
Buoyed by US air strikes earlier this month, Libyan pro-government forces are pressing their advance against Islamic State (IS) militants in the city of Sirte, with the conflict escalating and the country descending into near-anarchy.
Libya is ruled (...)
The Al-Ahram Establishment held a memorial service on Monday for late United Nations secretary-general and Egyptian diplomat Boutrous Boutrous Ghaly.
Ghali died at 93 on 16 February in a Cairo hospital after being admitted with a broken pelvis.
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Bombings are likely to continue in Lebanon until Hezbollah rescinds its decision to intervene militarily in Syria's civil war, analysts have warned.
The frequency of these bombings will also increase because Sunni extremist groups have vowed to (...)
Talks between the world powers and Iran on Tehran's nuclear programme are sure to be unproductive, as the two sides are at odds, a political expert at Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies told Ahram Online.
The second round of (...)
President Barack Obama will visit Israel on Wednesday on the first round of a Middle East tour which will also include the West Bank and Jordan.
Coming four months after his re-election for a second term, Obama's visit to Israel raises a number of (...)
One day before the beginning of nuclear negotiations between leading global powers and Iran in Kazakhstan, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that “enemy plots to put pressure on Iranian economy are under control” and called for the Iranian nation (...)
Using warplanes, white phosphorus, vacuum and cluster bombs, artillery, mortar fire and missiles, the Al-Assad regime killed nearly 400 people Saturday, according to opposition groups
Bashar Al-Assad regime troops killed at least 397 people on (...)
Egyptian journalist Adel Al-Gogari, 56, died Wednesday night while discussing the crisis in Syria during a live televised broadcast on Iraqi Al-Hadath private channel in Media Production City, Cairo.
Al-Gogari, editor of Egypt's Al-Anwar newspaper (...)
Tens of Sudanese protested at their embassy Saturday in Cairo in solidarity with an ongoing revolt in their home country against President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, demanding democratic change.
"We are here in solidarity with the Sudan movement (...)
The Dubai police chief confirms he has received a multitude of threats on his mobile from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood for tweeting against the Brotherhood's win of the presidential elections.
"I have received 1500 threats from members of Muslim (...)
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says the self-proclaimed Jewish state expects Egypt's new president to retake control of the Sinai Peninsula, respect international commitments including US-brokered 1979 peace treaty
Egypt's new president should (...)
King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and the gulf kingdom are "one country that will never be segmented."
His comments come after Bahrain and Saudi Arabia attempted to merge as a political entity in early May, (...)
Syrian opposition rebels have allegedly killed a number of top officials from the Assad regime on Sunday.
Satellite channels broadcast an amateur video showing an unidentified man claiming responsibility, on behalf of a rebel group, for the (...)
Thousands of Facebook users have today changed their profile pictures in solidarity with a hunger strike by 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The image is of a blindfolded face against a brown background.
The Facebook page, In Solidarity (...)
After Egyptians clashed with Lebanese troops in front of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut protesting against the sponsorship system, 19 Egyptian workers face military trials on charges of attempted murder
Lebanon's judicial authorities decided to try (...)
Israel's far-right Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Egypt presents a larger security threat to the Zionist state than Iran.
Lieberman reportedly told Netanyahu that political changes in Egypt since (...)
A group of Salafists and their supporters attacked a crowd of stage actors who gathered at Habib Bourguiba Avenue, in front of the Municipal Theatre in the Tunisian capital, to celebrate the World Theatre Day, according to Tunisia's media.
In a (...)
Lebanon passed a security test on Sunday as many observers expected that the day's outcome would be severe for the country.There were fears that Martyrs Square in Beirut would be a battlefield between two rival blocks; one supporting the Syrian (...)
The Qatari capital hosts a three-day conference on Jerusalem called "International Conference for the Defence of Occupied Jerusalem."
Some 350 representatives from Arab, Islamic and other countries will discuss "the legal status of Jerusalem before (...)
In the early days of 2011, the winds of change have swept through the Middle East and North Africa not only for the residents of this volatile region but also for the world as a whole. The Arab message this year was: the people, not the governments, (...)
Protesters staging a sit-in at Tahrir Square have finally allowed vehicles to pass through, after a fortnight of turning cars away from the area due to recurring demonstrations and clashes.
This Saturday morning, demonstrations removed the road (...)
Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, has confirmed an Interpol request concerning a suspect wanted over US allegations of an assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the US, but suggested the name was too common to pinpoint the (...)