In a strong signal of Moscow's intention to play a greater role in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.
Lavrov's (...)
Organised in the private mansion of the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house in Paris, France's first ever international modern and contemporary art fair dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa titled 'MENART FAIR' will take place between 27 (...)
The holy month of Ramadan is much more than a month of fasting, being an empowering combination of faith, history, and culture. Each year, millions of Muslims worldwide celebrate the month in various ways, practising abstinence during this period (...)
Hours after the first round of talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal started in Vienna last week, TV cameras attended a ceremony at the Natanz uranium-enrichment plant in Iran to witness the announcement of an increase in the use of advanced (...)
Over the last few months Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have stepped up efforts to enhance cooperation with Iraq, which still relies heavily on neighbouring Iran in energy and other economic domains.
The two Sunni (...)
The seventh Alexandria Short Film Festival (ASFF, 5-10 April) showed how cultural initiatives outside Cairo can grow and gain in credibility and popularity. The centrality of the capital to cultural life is oppressive, and even events that take (...)
In US and Western political culture, state ideology is associated with underdeveloped nations and dictatorships which need a set of ideas to mobilise the domestic front or to justify difficult national circumstances. Liberalism and democracy, the (...)
Interest in the antiquities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not been in the antiquities of the pre-Islamic era or the era of early Islam, but has also been the result of many foreign and Saudi missions to the country's prehistoric (...)
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, has met with Iraqi President Barham Salih to discuss developments in the political and security situation in Iraq and the region.
The Arab League chief arrived for an official visit to Iraq (...)
علق وزير الخارجية الأمريكي أنتوني بلينكن، اليوم الأربعاء، بشأن الحوار الاستراتيجي بين العراق وواشنطن.
وقال بلينكن في تغريدة له على موقع تويتر: "تشرفت بالتحدث مع وزير الخارجية العراقي فؤاد حسين في أول حوار استراتيجي بين الولايات المتحدة والعراق كوزير (...)
A total of 60 militants of the Islamic State (IS) group were killed in earlier airstrikes in a mountainous area in Salahudin province, north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday.
The Iraqi aircraft, in coordination with (...)
Jordan's king Abdullah II addressed the rare public rift within the royal family for the first time on Wednesday, saying the ``sedition'' that caused him anger and pain has been buried, but major challenges loom for the Western-allied monarchy as it (...)
The battle for an ancient desert city in war-torn Yemen has become a key to understanding wider tensions now inflaming the Middle East and the challenges facing any efforts by President Joe Biden's administration to shift U.S. troops out of the (...)
The World Stroke Organization (WSO) honoured eight stroke centres in Egypt for their efforts in providing high standard and effective medical care in the field of stroke management.
With 250,000 individuals suffering from stroke annually in Egypt, (...)
Iranian media are quoting the outgoing military prosecutor of Tehran as saying that 10 officials have been indicted for the 2020 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane.
Tehran military prosecutor Gholamabbas Torki made the comment Tuesday while (...)
The 9th Session of Arab and Chinese Businessmen was held, on Tuesday, in Beijing as part of the executive programme of the China–Arab States Cooperation Forum in 2020-2022.
Since the establishment of the forum in 2004, the volume of trade exchange (...)
Remarkably Saudi Arabia received Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, last week in a welcome show that included an air force show and a military parade with the artillery firing 21 shots, a rare salute.
Kadhimi's first visit to Riyadh since he (...)
Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has outlined the country's serious steps to address climate change, including restructuring the National Council for Climate Change and the climate change strategy 2050.
The Egyptian banking sector has (...)
The United States and the United Arab Emirates will work together on coordinating finance to decarbonise the economy, focusing on areas including hydrogen, renewable energy and low carbon urban design, a joint statement said on Monday.
U.S. climate (...)
Iraqi Airways plans to start direct flights to the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi on May 1, the state-run Iraqi News Agency reported on Sunday, citing a company statement.
The annoucement came ahead of a visit on Sunday to Abu Dhabi by (...)
Two rockets fell on Sunday in a rural area close to an Iraqi military air base hosting some US contractors, but there were no casualties, Iraqi security officials said.
The rockets landed on the outside fence of the base, the Iraqi military (...)
Jordan's neighbours and allies reacted with statements of support after the Jordanian military said on Saturday that King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein had been told to halt actions used to target the country's (...)
In the tiny, oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait, the foreigners who power the country's economy, serve its society and make up 70% of its population are struggling to get coronavirus vaccines.
Unlike other Gulf Arab states that have administered doses to (...)
Jordan's state news agency said Saturday that two former senior palace officials ``and others'' have been arrested for ``security reasons.''
The Petra report said Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, the former royal envoy to Saudi Arabia, and Basem Ibrahim (...)
Iraq and Saudi Arabia signed five agreements on Wednesday during a visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to Riyadh, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel reported.
The five agreements covered financial, commercial, economic, cultural and (...)
