The Iraqi protesters who briefly suspended their activities in Baghdad's Tahrir Square last week to watch their national football team playing Iran on a large television screen erupted with joy as their players finally secured a 2-1 win over Iran to (...)
Anti-government protesters blocked access to a second major commercial port in southern Iraq on Tuesday, as bridge closures effectively split the capital in half, causing citizens to rely on boats for transport to reach the other side of the (...)
New US ambassador
JONATHAN Cohen was sworn in as the new US ambassador to Egypt last week, presenting his credentials to the Foreign Ministry on Sunday. The post had been vacant since July 2017 after former ambassador Robert Stephen Beecroft left (...)
The 41st Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) opened on Tuesday with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. A $160 million Netflix production based on Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses, it stars Robert De Niro in his ninth collaboration (...)
The US announced it would withdraw its troops in northern Syria from border areas with Turkey on 7 October, with US President Donald Trump tweeting the decision several times and triggering intense debate in US decision-making circles about the (...)
By the middle of this week, the Iranian authorities in Tehran had declared that the major protests against rising fuel prices that have been sweeping the country were “almost calm, though some insurgents remain”.
Yet, these protests differ from the (...)
A WEST Cairo military criminal court on Sunday sentenced Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari to death and other defendants to heavy jail terms for their part in a deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis, writes Ahmed Eleiba.
A WEST (...)
“Not Gaza, not Lebanon, I give my life for Iran.” “Leave Iraq and think of us.” “Leave Syria and think of us.” These were some of the chants made by the thousands of Iranians who took to the streets of towns and cities across the country this week (...)
Protesters have once again blocked the entrance to Iraq's Umm Qasr commodities port near Basra, preventing employees and tankers from entering and bringing operations down by 50%, two port sources told Reuters on Monday.
If the blockage goes on (...)
Iran's supreme leader on Sunday backed the government's decision to raise gasoline prices and called angry protesters who have been setting fire to public property over the hike ``thugs,'' signaling a potential crackdown on the (...)
The Embassy of the United States of America is pleased to announce the arrival in Cairo of the new U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jonathan Cohen. Ambassador Cohen presented his credentials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 17, 2019.
Jonathan (...)
تواصلت المظاهرات في عدة مدن إيرانية احتجاجا على رفع أسعار الوقود، وهاجم المحتجون الغاضبون محطات وقود وقطعوا الطرق في عدد من المناطق.
وبعد نفي سابق لوجود احتجاجات واشتباكات بين القوى الأمنية والمتظاهرين، قالت وكالة الأنباء الرسمية "إرنا" إن مظاهرات (...)
Overnight protests roiling several Iranian cities continued into Saturday, sparked by the government cutting back on gasoline subsidies and increasing costs by 50%, with demonstrations ranging from people abandoning their cars in traffic to trying (...)
German authorities have arrested a German citizen accused of being a member of Islamic State upon her return to Germany, federal prosecutors said on Saturday.
The woman, identified only as Nasim A., was arrested on Friday evening. A court will (...)
Oil rose on Thursday after industry data showed a surprise drop in U.S. crude inventories while comments from an OPEC official about lower-than-expected U.S. shale production growth in 2020 also provided some support for oil.
However, prices were (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has asserted the anti-Daesh international coalition needs to continue exerting efforts to achieve its targets, necessitating the confrontation of any country that uses terrorism to achieve political goals.
Shoukry on (...)
The big buzz nowadays is the announcement of the Nobel Prize Winners, an honoured tradition for the highest standard of achievement, for over a century.
While the monetary reward is significant, almost $1 million, it is the prestige and honour that (...)
It has been a roller-coaster month so far for Son Heung-min but the Tottenham Hotspur forward reports for World Cup qualification duty against Lebanon in good form as South Korea seeks a return to winning ways.
South Korea drew 0-0 in an almost (...)
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 (...)
The West celebrated 9 November the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that was a turning point in the post-World War II era. The division of Europe between East and West came to an end, and two years later the former Soviet (...)
The war in Yemen is poised to end by year's end, or so many Gulf and Western analysts are saying.
Some would even go further and anticipate that the end of the war in Yemen could pave the way to negotiations with Iran to conclude a comprehensive (...)
Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said in an interview with Al-AhramWeekly that European foreign policy on the Middle East had become “short-sighted and (...)
“The EU will have to wait a long time before America has any clear strategy in Syria,” one baffled European diplomat told Al-Ahram Weekly this week, commenting on the apparent contradictions between US President Donald Trump and his defence (...)
When tribal chieftains met last week in a small town north of Baghdad to see what they should do with the protests that have gripped the country's south and capital city, one key question emerged: how will Iran respond if the uprising fails?
“They (...)
There has hardly been any positive news coming out of Iraq in nearly four decades and after the bloody eight-year war with Iran (1980-1988) that left millions of Iraqis killed, injured or missing in one of the bloodiest and longest wars of the 20th (...)
