Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2006 will be held later this year. But the road to the vote — key to advancing Palestinian statehood and mending a rift between Abbas' (...)
Israeli authorities on Sunday advanced plans to build an additional 780 homes in West Bank settlements, an anti-settlement monitoring group said, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this (...)
India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway.
India is home to the world's largest vaccine (...)
Egypt, along with Israel and Jordan, was excluded from a decision by the White House to enact deep cuts to domestic and foreign spending omnibus spending package in December, according to Al-Monitor.
"The White House notified Congress on Thursday (...)
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the (...)
تفاقمت حدة التوتر بين الولايات المتحدة وإيران، وسط توقعات بالإعلان عن مزيد من العقوبات ضد إيران، خلال الساعات المقبلة، بعد أن اتهم وزير الخارجية الأمريكى مايك بومبيو طهران مجموعة من المتطرفين يهتفون ب"الموت لأمريكا".
ونشر وزير الخارجية الأمريكى صورا (...)
شن وزير الخارجية الأمريكي، مايك بومبيو، اليوم الثلاثاء، هجومًا على عدد من القادة الإيرانيين، قائلًا إنهم يمثلون تهديدًا لأمريكا.
ونشر بومبيو صورًا عبر حسابه على موقع "تويتر" تضم المرشد الإيراني علي خامنئي، والرئيس الإيراني، حسن روحاني، ووزير (...)
كتب محمد عبد العظيم - أحمد عرفة
وصل التصعيد الإيرانى الأمريكى إلى مرحلة جديدة، وسط توقعات بالإعلان عن مزيد من العقوبات ضد إيران، خلال الساعات المقبلة، حيث يواصل وزير الخارجية الأمريكى مايك بومبيو إصدار تصريحات نارية ضد طهران.
ووفقا لموقع العربية، (...)
The 6 January will remain a day to remember in the roughly 250-year history of the United States. It may be considered the day when the wall of the American sense of superiority, as far as the best democratic exercises are concerned, fell. (...)
Israel has denied Palestinians access to the vaccine after it rebuffed a World Health Organisation (WHO) vaccine request last week for the Palestinian health workforce as an immediate priority target group, citing shortages at home. Palestinians (...)
France on Tuesday condemned Israel's plan to advance construction of 800 more Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a move to cement the projects shortly before pro-settlement U.S. President Donald Trump leaves office.
In a statement, (...)
Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday signed their first military cooperation agreement as the eastern Mediterranean island nation seeks to bolster relations with nearby countries in the Middle East.
Cyprus already had military agreements (...)
The last chapter in the most controversial US presidential elections in living memory unfolded on 7 January when thousands of outgoing US president Donald Trump's supporters stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, the seat of the US government (...)
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas arrived on Sunday evening at the Cairo International Airport, to take part in a quartet meeting on efforts to revive the frozen Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Egypt, France, Germany, and Jordan, are set to (...)
Israel on Monday advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move that could strain ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the move, (...)
Trawlers pack the bustling Western Saharan port of Dakhla, where fish scales glisten from workers' arms as they roll up their nets and buyers shout bids in a sprawling auction warehouse. Nearby, turquoise waters lap wide, nearly empty Atlantic (...)
Thousands of Israelis on Saturday renewed weekly demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for the long-serving leader to resign over corruption charges against him and his alleged mishandling of the coronavirus (...)
Syria and close ally Russia clashed with the US and other nations Tuesday over a Western initiative to suspend Syria's voting rights in the global chemical weapons watchdog for failing to provide details of three chemical attacks in 2017 that (...)
An Israeli military court on Wednesday convicted a Palestinian rights activist of offences in the occupied West Bank, his lawyer said, in a case that Amnesty International described as politically motivated.
The Israeli occupation army did not (...)
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 (...)
The year 2020 with all its negative connotations associated with the terrible Covid-19 pandemic was also a fruitful year on a geopolitical level, especially for Egypt and Greece.
This was the year that decisively marked the return of the (...)
Peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis came to a complete standstill in April 2014. Six years later, the two sides have failed to agree on a negotiating framework that will enable them to bring peace to the Holy Land, thus (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed in Cairo on Tuesday the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the Egyptian presidency announced.
President El-Sisi (...)
Since storming off stage during a live debate on the Israeli military operation in Gaza aired during the Davos Conference in 2009, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acquired a reputation for anti-Israeli rhetoric. Following the Mavi Marmara (...)
In his final days in office, Barack Obama sought a UN Security Council resolution to pressure Israel to stop building settlements. Donald Trump, by contrast, is working as fast as he can to finalise controversial normalisation deals between Israel (...)
