Confrontation with America, economic hardship and an airline tragedy have battered Iranians' confidence in their leaders, posing a potential problem for the authorities in a parliamentary election this week.
As the Feb. 21 vote nears, Iranians are (...)
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday the use of hunting rifles loaded with birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure those demonstrating are not harmed.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (...)
Rockets hit a U.S.-led military coalition's Baghdad headquarters early on Sunday but caused no casualties, a coalition spokesman said, in the latest attack to target U.S. facilities in Iraq.
Washington has blamed Iran-backed paramilitary groups for (...)
Egypt's cabinet said that Egypt has achieved the highest economic growth rate in 11 years.
Egypt's economy is among the Middle East's most important economies for 2020 for the third year in a row on basis of growth rates
An info-graphic published by (...)
Rockets hit a U.S.-led military coalition's Baghdad headquarters early on Sunday but caused no casualties, a coalition spokesman said, in the latest attack to target U.S. facilities in Iraq.
Washington has blamed Iran-backed paramilitary groups for (...)
Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, adding that Tehran's help was essential in establishing security in the Middle East.
Relations between Tehran and Washington reached crisis (...)
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Egy Home Tex exhibition will be launched Thursday in its fifth edition from 20 to 23 February at the Cairo International Conference Centre in Nasr City.
In this context, Wael El-Kady, (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry participated on Saturday in the session on regional security in North Africa, on the sidelines of the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC), in Munich, Germany.
At the session, Shoukry reviewed the (...)
NATO is ready to expand its military training effort in Iraq, the alliance's top civilian official said late Wednesday, but the Iraqi government is not yet ready to approve the move.
The Canada-led operation was launched in 2018 but suspended last (...)
The Senate approved a bipartisan measure Thursday limiting President Donald Trump's authority to launch military operations against Iran.
The measure, authored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., says Trump must win approval from Congress before engaging in (...)
United Arab Emirates-based Dana Gas (DANA.AD) said on Wednesday it has received bids from some companies for its assets in Egypt.
“We have received a number of bids from a number of companies,” the company's CEO Patrick Allman-Ward said on an (...)
UAE-based Dana Gas announced on Wednesday it had received bids from a number of companies seeking to buy its assets in Egypt.
"We have received a number of bids from a number of companies," the company's chief executive Patrick Allman-Ward said on (...)
A member of the Algerian military was killed in a car-bomb in the south of the country close to the border with Mali last weekend. While it was not clear which terrorist group was responsible for the attack, the triangle of southern Algeria, (...)
Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr has fought his way to power from the streets since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 to become one of Iraq's most popular and polarising political leaders and a “tough guy” who claims to protect the country's national (...)
“Si vis pacem, para bellum” said Roman author Publius Renatus, meaning that “if you want peace, prepare for war.”
This has been the simple, yet deep, motto adopted by the Egyptian army for decades. After the signing of the peace treaty with Israel (...)
The current feud between Egypt and Turkey has caused many to draw comparisons between how the two states conduct their policies in the ever-turbulent region of the Middle East. There are stark differences in the ways each state is handling the feud, (...)
Hundreds of thousands across Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday amid some of the highest tensions ever between Tehran and the US in the past four decades.
While Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gave a speech in (...)
The United States has signaled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity imports, three Iraqi officials said this week, a move that would be a key test of (...)
The head of Iran's nuclear program said Monday the U.S. killing of a high-ranking Iranian general has weakened the fight against the Islamic State extremist group in the region.
Ali Akbar Salehi told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy (...)
Iraqi security forces shot and killed at least one protester in the country's south on Monday, official said as the five-month anti-government protest movement enters a critical stage.
Security forces fired live rounds to disperse crowds at the (...)
The United States has agreed to extend a waiver for Iraq to import Iranian energy supplies, including gas, two Iraqi government officials said on Monday.
They did not immediately say how long the renewed waiver would last. Washington has repeatedly (...)
Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation Rania El-Mashat announced that a delegation involving the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation and the Jordanian Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply is expected to visit Iraq to enhance (...)
The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants, four U.S. officials told Reuters.
The U.S. decision to indefinitely suspend the program, which (...)
Iran will support Palestinian armed groups as much as it can, Iran's Supreme Leader said on Wednesday, urging Palestinians to confront a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
"We believe that Palestinian armed organizations will stand and (...)
"Making peace is harder than making war." The complicated political scene that the whole world is involved in nowadays proves the validity of this statement by the 23rd vice president of the United States Adlai Ewing Stevenson. The political history (...)
