Egypt has sent on Monday a planeload of medical supplies and medicines to Jordan to help it deal with its ongoing coronavirus crisis.
The shipment was sent in collaboration with the health ministry on a military transport plane as per the directives (...)
The Middle East Donald Trump inherited from his predecessors in January 2017 was a place in tatters. The Islamic State (IS) was in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Civil wars raged in Yemen and Libya. Iran and Turkey, each dreaming of (...)
Anxiety over what Donald Trump might be up to as president ended with Joe Biden's inauguration yesterday, though Trump is still likely to stir up trouble in other ways. Back here our concern is rather with Biden's plans for the Middle East. Biden's (...)
It has been ten years since widespread protests erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen, in addition to smaller-scale ones in a few other Arab countries, with the protests as a whole being collectively named the Arab Spring.
The immediate (...)
A lot of the characters are the same for President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
President Donald Trump worked to blow up the (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is headed to Jordan on Monday in an official visit upon an invitation by King Abdullah II to discuss bilateral relations and regional issues.
According to the Egyptian presidency, the two leaders will discuss (...)
In a meeting held in Amman on Monday, the leaders of Egypt and Jordan agreed to push ahead with efforts to revive the negotiation path for the Palestinian issue.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived in the Jordanian capital earlier today (...)
The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the U.N. Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had proposed (...)
President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the (...)
Earlier this week the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) issued a report stating that Egypt had the highest coronavirus death rates in the region, followed by Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. The report (...)
As of 6 January, Egypt has been among the countries with the highest reported number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region, after Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Eastern (...)
Iran launched exercises featuring a wide array of domestically produced drones on Tuesday, Iranian media reported, days after the anniversary of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general by a drone strike in Iraq.
Iran and the regional forces it (...)
OPEC+ will resume talks on Tuesday after reaching a deadlock over February oil output levels as Saudi Arabia argued against pumping more due to new lockdowns while Russia led calls for higher production citing recovering demand.
The unusual decision (...)
Despite conflicting reports on how many people were involved – with some saying thousands and others tens of thousands – Iraqi protesters took to the streets around Iraq's Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad to mark the anniversary of the killing (...)
Talks held on the Qatari crisis during the Arab Quartet's boycott of Doha over the last three years had reached a dead end. This last round, however, proved to be a different story.
“Fruitful discussions have taken place during the past period, (...)
Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.
The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the (...)
Tens of thousands of Iraqis chanting anti-American slogans streamed to Baghdad's central square on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the U.S. killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The (...)
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday not to be "trapped" by an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
He issued the warning on the anniversary of the U.S. (...)
The U.S. killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike.
The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the (...)
Islamic State on Thursday claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Syria the previous day, saying it had killed 40 Syrian army soldiers and badly wounded six others.
The statement was carried by Islamic State's Amaq news agency.
Syrian state media (...)
The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran.
The decision, announced Thursday by the acting secretary (...)
Iran's cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January, the president announced Wednesday.
Iran will pay $150,000 for each (...)
The United States flew strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, a show of force meant to deter Iran from attacking American or allied targets in the Middle East.
One senior U.S. military officer said the (...)
Twenty eight people were killed in a "terrorist" attack on a bus along a main highway in Syria's Deir Zor province that borders Iraq, Syrian state media said on Wednesday.
There were no more details of the incident in an area where mostly Syrian (...)
Amman-based Capital Bank Group signed agreements to acquire Lebanese lender Bank Audi's businesses in Iraq and Jordan.
The agreements include the acquisition by the National Bank of Iraq, a subsidiary of Capital Bank Group, of the operations of Bank (...)
