After a five-year hiatus marked by grievances over their rival claims to Mediterranean waters, Turkey resumes talks with Greece on Monday in the first test of its hopes to reverse deteriorating relations with the European Union.
While diplomats say (...)
Libya's coast guard intercepted on Friday more than 80 Europe-bound migrants in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the North African country, the U.N. migration agency said.
The migrants were returned to Libyan soil, said the International (...)
The United Nations Libya mission said on Thursday that nominations for leadership of a new unified transitional government must be made within a week and voting on candidates would take place in early February.
The UN in November gathered 75 Libyan (...)
A Qatari foreign ministry official pledged in a meeting with Egyptian and Emirati security officials on Saturday that Qatar would not interfere in Egypt's internal affairs, two Egyptian intelligence sources told Reuters.
He also pledged a change of (...)
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 (...)
Ten years have passed since the outbreak of the revolutionary experiments known as the Arab Spring. If the political uprisings met with varying degrees of success or failure, the waves of turmoil they gave rise to have raised many questions (...)
The UN Support Mission for Libya (UNSMIL) had not yet announced how participants in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) had voted on Monday evening on the selection mechanism for the new Libyan executive authority at the time Al-Ahram Weekly (...)
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 (...)
Alexandria's Borg El-Arab International Airport received on Friday the first flight operated by the Libyan Buraq Air after years of hiatus.
According to Libyan Aviation News, the flight took off from the Benina International Airport in Libya's (...)
A Libyan political dialogue arranged by the United Nations has made progress towards agreeing a new transitional government to oversee the run-up to elections in December, the U.N. said on Saturday.
Participants at talks in Geneva agreed on a (...)
Egypt's designation of Libya's Sirte and Jufra as red lines has helped in preserving the political path of the country's crisis, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told president of the Arab Parliament on Saturday.
According to a presidency statement, (...)
Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.
The vote was called after an impasse that (...)
Egypt will be watching closely as South Africa hands over the presidency of the African Union (AU) to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the second week of February, hoping that the move will push forward the long, and so far (...)
Officials from Libya's rival governments met Tuesday in the strategic eastern oil town of Brega for talks aimed at unifying the national budget, officials said, another step forward in efforts to end the yearslong conflict in the oil-rich (...)
On 7 January, Turkish and Greek coastguard vessels clashed in the Aegean Sea, escalating the tensions between the two NATO members. On 22 December, Turkey announced it would continue to conduct its seismic research activities in the Eastern (...)
The recently released European Parliament report on the state of human rights in Egypt has elicited strong reactions in the regular and social media in Egypt and abroad.
Many have charged that the report is biased and disseminates misinformation, (...)
The powerful interior minister of Libya's UN-backed government, seen as a contender for the post of prime minister, has expressed hopes that bringing stability to his war-torn country would become a top priority for the incoming Biden (...)
The draw of the 2020/21 Total CAF Confederation Cup Additional 2nd Preliminary Round kicks off at 12:00 GMT (14:00 Cairo Local Time).
Enyimba FC (Nigeria) vs. Bloemfontein Celtic / Rivers UTD
FC Platinum (Zimbabwe) vs. ASC Jaraaf (Senegal)
Raja CA (...)
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 (...)
2020 has not been, by all accounts, an ordinary year in human history. There were no global, regional or economic disasters. There was no cold war that made the international order descend into chaos. To the whole world's great surprise, it was a (...)
On 27 December a delegation of the Egyptian National Committee on Libya arrived in Tripoli. Delegation members met with officials from the Government of National Accord (GNA) and representatives of key players in western Libyan.
The goal was to (...)
Egyptian powerhouses Pyramids FC came from behind to beat Libya's Ittihad Tripoli 3-1 and reach the African Confederation Cup playoff with a 4-2 aggregate win on Tuesday.
Last season's runners-up had a clear advantage heading into the game after (...)
The first official visit by a high-level Egyptian delegation to Tripoli last week reflects Cairo's openness to all Libyan stakeholders and its determination to handle the Libyan crisis comprehensively.
Egypt has long made it clear that it has no (...)
