Dubai has retained its position as the top city in the world for the construction of mega cities with total projects valued at $611.2 billion, new research by GlobalData has found.
The city continued to dominate the global rankings with a project (...)
Egypt is lobbying both the Arab League and the African Union to press the Libyan government of Fayez Al-Sarraj to pull back from the maritime and military agreements it recently signed with Ankara.
According to official sources, Cairo wants the Arab (...)
The Taliban said on Friday they were ready to restart peace talks with the United States, a day after President Donald Trump visited U.S. troops in Afghanistan and said he believed the radical group would agree to a ceasefire.
Trump's surprise (...)
Egypt's Zamalek board decided to boycott the African Super Cup in Qatar within the next year, the Egyptian club's chairman Mortada Mansour revealed in a press conference on Tuesday.
“The board voted against playing the Super Cup match in Qatar. It (...)
The top US general said on Wednesday that the chances of a successful outcome from peace talks on ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan were higher than before and could happen in the "near term."
Earlier this month the Afghan Taliban released (...)
The Zamalek board has decided to boycott the African Super Cup next year in Qatar, the Egyptian club's chairman Mortada Mansour revealed in a press conference on Tuesday.
"The board voted against playing the Super Cup match in Qatar. It is an enemy (...)
تحدث محمد أبو تريكة نجم الكرة المصرية السابق عن اختياره كسفير للجنة العليا لتنظيم كأس العالم 2022 بقطر.
واختير محمد أبو تريكة ووائل جمعة نجمي منتخب مصر السابقين يوم الإثنين كسفراء للجنة العليا لتنظيم كأس العالم 2022 بقطر.
وقال أبو تريكة عبر حسابه (...)
Qatari satellite TV company beIN Sports announced on Thursday that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has set 14 February as the date of the African Super Cup game in the Qatari capital Doha.
Zamalek booked their place in the African Super (...)
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif left Pakistan on Tuesday in an air ambulance to receive medical treatment in London, his party said on Tuesday, a month after the three-time premier was released on bail from a seven-year sentence for (...)
The national football teams of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain will participate in the upcoming Gulf Cup to be held in Qatar from 24 November to 6 December, according to separate statements published overnight by the Saudi, UAE and Bahrain (...)
Karim Abdel Gawad could not have been more proud as Egypt maintains its domination of prestigious squash tournaments.
The world number four emerged the winner in an all-Egyptian final at the Egyptian Squash Open, beating world number one Ali Farag (...)
Sapporo was formally approved on Friday as host of the marathon events at next year's Summer Olympics with the reluctant consent of Tokyo's governor, ending a showdown between the Japanese capital and the IOC over where to stage the flagship (...)
Divisive draft
AL-AZHAR has said that its draft law on personal status issues is ready. The draft, which took nearly one year, includes several amendments to the current personal status law of 1920.
Al-Azhar said in an official statement that the (...)
The Munich Security Conference will hold its Core Group Meeting series in Cairo from 26-28 October, bringing together senior decision-makers and experts from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and other parts of the world to discuss crises in the (...)
A fresh round of intra-Afghan peace talks will be held in China next week, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said Tuesday, raising hopes for renewed negotiations, even as violence surges in Afghanistan's 18-year war.
The talks planned for Oct. 28 and (...)
Following his return from a one-week visit to the US to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi hinted he might ask the Egyptian people for a new mandate to lead the battle against terrorism, reports Gamal Essam (...)
While in New York for the inauguration of the 74th UN General Assembly, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with 13 presidents, seven prime ministers, the UN secretary-general and the director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and attended (...)
Hundreds of migrant workers in Qatar have gone without pay and many were forced to return to their home countries without compensation, despite recent reforms intended to improve worker rights, a report from Amnesty International said on (...)
The United States believes the attacks that crippled Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend originated in southwestern Iran, a U.S. official said, an assessment that further increases tension in the Middle East.
Three officials, speaking to (...)
Leading soccer organizations say a Saudi Arabia-backed satellite company is "without question'' behind pirated match broadcasts that steals content from Qatar's beIN Sports, intensifying a sports dispute linked to the Persian Gulf diplomatic (...)
The Taliban have sent a delegation to Russia to discuss prospects for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan following the collapse of talks with the United States this month, officials from the insurgent group said.
The move, days after U.S. (...)
Afghanistan's Taliban leaders agree that they want a deal with the United States, but some among them are in more of a hurry than others.
Even before President Donald Trump over the weekend cancelled a mysterious Camp David summit, Taliban (...)
President Donald Trump said he canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing in the past week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations (...)
India's over-reliance on forward Sunil Chhetri and the team's inexperience cost them their Asian qualifying tie for the 2022 World Cup against Oman, coach Igor Stimac rued after the 2-1 loss on Thursday.
Udanta Singh hit the crossbar and Sandesh (...)
U.S. and Taliban negotiators are close to a deal to reduce fighting and allow full peace talks among Afghans, a top U.S. official said on Sunday, as insurgent forces attacked a second northern city.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born U.S. diplomat (...)
