Backed by a US-led International Coalition, the Iraqi security forces have now almost completely dismantled the Islamic State (IS) group that had earlier seized vast tracts of land in Iraq and Syria and declared a “Caliphate.”
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Trucks loaded with civilians left the last Islamic State group enclave in eastern Syria on Friday, as US-backed forces waited to inflict final defeat on the surrounded jihadists.
Reporters near the front line at Baghouz saw dozens of trucks driving (...)
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) allied with the US-led International Coalition are now closing in on the last strongholds of Islamic State (IS) group fighters in Syria, and IS has said that a large number of its foreign fighters have surrendered and (...)
A youth-led protest movement in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, which saw riots last summer over failing services and soaring unemployment, has found an artistic outlet in the words and beats of homegrown rapper Ahmed Chayeb.
The 22-year-old (...)
US-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, the first batch of several to come, an Iraqi security official said Thursday.
The official said the IS militants were (...)
The evacuation of civilians from Islamic State group's last remaining enclave in eastern Syria is expected to be completed on Thursday after which the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will engage the last jihadists holed up inside, SDF official (...)
Alamal for Agricultural Crops plans to open a legume factory by the end of the year with investments of EGP 40m to support its export expansion plans.
Chairperson of the company, Emad Shehata, said that are currently planning to open a new legume (...)
Port Said Food Industries and Dairy Products (Riyada Egypt) aims to increase its exports by 25% this year to reach $10m instead of $8m last year.
Chairperson of the company, Ibrahim Mohamed Sudan, said that Riyada Egypt plans to open new markets for (...)
Egyptian Nile Food Industries Company is planning to inject investments worth EGP 10m in a new factory to process potatoes next year.
Mahmoud Hendy, the CEO of the company, said that the company is waiting for the licenses of the land of the (...)
Air strikes targeted Islamic State's last pocket in eastern Syria late on Tuesday as U.S.-backed fighters pressed for a victory that would bring the jihadists' self-proclaimed caliphate to its bloody end.
Dozens of trucks earlier headed towards (...)
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Sunday his country's desire to have good relations with all Muslim peoples in the Middle East. He also criticised the recent cooperation between the Middle Eastern countries with Israel and the US, (...)
The commander of US-backed forces in Syria called on Monday for about 1,000 to 1,500 international forces to remain in Syria to help fight Islamic State group and expressed hope that the United States, in particular, would halt plans for a total (...)
France will for now not act on U.S. President Donald Trump's call for European allies to repatriate hundreds of Islamic State fighters from Syria, taking back militants on a "case-by-case" basis, its justice minister said on Monday.
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U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State's last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat.
Jiya Furat said the Syrian Democratic (...)
Last week, Libyan customs authorities in the Khums seaport seized another cargo of illicit arms and military hardware from Turkey. In a statement released 5 February, the customs authorities said the shipment included nine Toyota Sierra Leone 4X4 (...)
Among the world's most unstable regions, none is faced with more serious geopolitical risks than the long arc stretching from the Maghreb to the Arabian Gulf.
For decades the Middle East has experienced upheavals that will change the face of the (...)
For several times, the US President threated to withdraw his troops from Syria, but was convinced not to. Yet, his decision was announced on 19 December 2018 as he wrote in a tweet “After the historic victories against the Islamic State of Iraq and (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Thursday for a new era of cooperation on the Middle East and said no country could afford to stay on the sidelines in tackling regional challenges such as Iran, Syria, Yemen and Israeli-Palestinian (...)
The leaders of the Arab League and the European Union (EU) will hold their first summit on 24 and 25 February in Sharm El-Sheikh to bring their positions together on a wide range of regional and international issues, ranging from the conflicts in (...)
Iran's ruling clergy are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, during which Shi'ite Islamists, led by religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, toppled Mohammad Reza Shah's secular monarchy.
The linchpin of the Islamic Republic's (...)
Forty years ago, the Shiite opposition leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, fronted an Islamic Revolution which toppled the US-backed Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a major political shift which replaced Tehran's position from a US alley to a (...)
Undoubtedly revolutions are turning points in history, and their magnitude is usually measured by the impact they have on world affairs decades if not centuries later.
However, the French Revolution (1789-1799) that employed the noble slogan of (...)
The U.S. military is preparing to withdraw American forces from Syria by the end of April and a significant portion of them will be out by the middle of March, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expected a formal announcement as early as next week that the coalition fighting Islamic State rebels has reclaimed all of the territory previously held by the extremist group.
"The United States military, (...)
The ministry of petroleum estimated the natural decline in Egypt's gas production by 20-25% per year, however compensated for by new fields coming on stream while sustaining explore and development operations to increase production rates.
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