U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Tuesday that Islamic State militants are gaining strength in some areas but said the militant group's capacity to conduct attacks has been greatly diminished.
"It's complicated. There are certainly (...)
FIFA says the southern Iraqi city of Basra can host the national team's return to playing World Cup qualifying games at home.
Security concerns since the 1980s have forced Iraq to host most qualifiers in neutral countries. Iraq played ''home'' games (...)
Iraq is ordering all military camps and munitions warehouses to be moved outside Iraqi cities following a massive explosion at an ammunition depot that killed one civilian and wounded 13.
In a statement issued Thursday following a national security (...)
British warship HMS Kent sailed on its way to the Gulf on Monday to join a US-led mission in the region, to safeguard merchant vessels in the unstable region amid heightened political tensions between the US and Iran.
The British move comes amid (...)
Egypt's Assistant Foreign Minister and Director of Protocol Department, Hatem Tageldin, received Cyrill Nunn's credentials as a new ambassador of Germany to Egypt on Thursday.
Nunn, who previously served as Germany's ambassador to Iraq, expressed (...)
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is considered to be one of the most famous celebration of the arts and entertainment in the world. Undeniably, it is the world's largest arts festival that takes place annually in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the month of (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to Baghdad on Sunday to attend the tripartite meeting with his Jordanian, and Iraqi counterparts, according to ministry's spokesperson Ahmed Hafez.
The meeting will discuss ways to boost trilateral (...)
Egyptian authorities have been interrogating the country's most-wanted terrorist Hesham Ashmawi recently after he was extradited from Libya, where he was captured, in May.
The army officer-turned-terrorist Ashmwai confessed he was recruiting (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry tackled bolstering cooperation and coordination among Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan during separate meetings with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al-Safadi, Iraqi President Barham Salih, and Iraqi Prime Minister (...)
Children caught up in armed conflicts witnessed the highest numbers in deaths, and injuries in 2018, marking it as the worst year on record, according to a recent report by the United Nations (UN).
More than 12,000 children were killed or maimed in (...)
Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq agreed on supporting Baghdad's efforts to eliminate remnants of terrorist organization Daesh, aiming for a secured and stable atmosphere for the return of all displaced citizens to their cities.
The foreign ministers of the (...)
At least seven members of Iraq's security forces were killed and 16 wounded overnight in two separate attacks by Islamic State militants, police said on Thursday.
Three members of the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and two (...)
Iran accused the United States on Thursday of "childish behaviour" driven by fear after Washington imposed sanctions on its foreign minister, escalating tensions between two foes at loggerheads over Gulf shipping and Iran's nuclear programme.
Fears (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum has not been notified of Abu Dhabi-listed energy producer Dana Gas' plans to sell its $500 million Egyptian assets, official sources in the ministry said on Monday.
Dana's exploration and production assets in Egypt are (...)
United Arab Emirates' Dana Gas has hired investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. to advise it on the sale of its Egyptian assets, worth over $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the company shifts its focus to its (...)
El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) announced that The Knight & The Princess, the first Egyptian animated feature film, is confirmed to take part in its third edition, which will take place from September 19 to 27, 2019.
The festival said that it is aiming (...)
Egyptian and Jordanian chambers of commerce agreed on establishing a logistics centre in Jordan, the head of Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce (FECC) Ahmed El-Wakil announced.
El-Wakil explained that the new center will be established in (...)
Britain on Saturday denounced Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a "hostile act" and rejected Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted a (...)
The increased use of drones by Iran and its allies for surveillance and attacks across the Middle East is raising alarms in Washington.
The United States believes that Iran-linked militia in Iraq have recently increased their surveillance of (...)
North Korea and South Korea have been drawn together in an Asian qualifying group for soccer's 2022 World Cup.
The Korean neighbors will play each other home and away in the five-nation Group H that includes Lebanon, Turkmenistan and Sri (...)
At least two people including a Turkish diplomat were shot dead on Wednesday in a rare attack in the capital of Iraq's northern Kurdish region, local security officials and Turkey's foreign ministry said.
A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in (...)
A U.S. Army soldier killed in Afghanistan was identified on Sunday as decorated special forces company Sergeant Major James G. "Ryan" Sartor of Teague, Texas, the Department of Defense (DOD) said in a release.
Sartor, 40, died Saturday from wounds (...)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to keep the area out of his hands and shows why he will struggle to take back more of Syria by force.
More (...)
“Towards the East” is the title of the 13th Cairo International Biennale for Visual Arts (10 June-10 August), inaugurated at the Cairo Opera House grounds.
With work by 80 artists from 50 countries, according to Commissar General Ihab Al-Labban's (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday any disruption to oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz will be a "major obstacle" for his country's economy which has too few oil export outlets.
His government was studying contingency plans (...)
