Egypt's transport technology start-up SWVL announced on Wednesday it entered into a merger agreement with U.S. special purpose acquisition company Queen's Gambit Growth Capital, a step that would enable the Egyptian company to list on the Nasdaq (...)
Supposedly, there is nothing worse than a war, but actually there is something worse – an incomplete war. An incomplete war is a war that has lost its purpose and deviated from its original mission and one that ends in massive compromises and (...)
Saudi Arabia announced late on Tuesday that it has extended the resident permits and exit/re-entry visas for the stranded foreigners in countries under the Saudi entry ban due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Citing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, (...)
Washington's point man in talks aimed at ending decades of war in Afghanistan made a brief visit Monday to Pakistan as relations between Islamabad and Kabul reached a new low.
Zalmay Khalilzad's visit came just hours after Afghanistan withdrew its (...)
The U.N. humanitarian chief in Afghanistan appealed for $850 million Thursday to help the war-torn country cope with the impact of the Taliban offensive, protracted malnutrition for a third of the country, a severe drought, and the return of 627,000 (...)
journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan commander said.
Afghan special forces had been fighting to retake the main (...)
A powerful roadside bomb targeting security forces killed two soldiers in southwest Pakistan, the military said Thursday, a sign of increasing violence in the region.
The overnight attack happened in Pasni, a district in the impoverished Baluchistan (...)
Taliban fighters on Wednesday said they have gained control over an important trade route linking Pakistan with southern Afghanistan, hours after Afghan forces surrendered the critical transit point to the Islamist hardline insurgent group.
Afghan (...)
Egypt has accepted the UK's offer to develop the former's electricity grid by integrating the variable renewable energy needed to allow the electrification of the country's transportation sector.
Egypt has already started working towards a greener (...)
A bus carrying Afghan, Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants crashed in eastern Turkey early on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 26 others, local authorities said.
The crash occurred in Van province's Muradiye district near the Turkish (...)
The Biden administration is willing to conclude its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by 11 September, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But this is no longer news. Instead, the whole world is waiting to see what the (...)
On 1 July, the United States troops in Afghanistan handed over Bagram, the largest US and NATO airbase in Afghanistan, to Afghan troops. The US withdrawal from the country is expected to be over by the end of next month, 11 days before the date (...)
Pakistan's national security advisor has accused India of orchestrating last month's deadly car bombing in the eastern city of Lahore, saying Sunday that an investigation has shown it was organized by an Indian intelligence operative.
In a news (...)
Militants in Afghanistan fired across the border at a Pakistani army post in a former local Taliban stronghold, killing two soldiers, the Pakistani military said Wednesday.
The cross-border firefight took place in the district of North Waziristan in (...)
Indian officials said Sunday they suspect explosives-laden drones were used to attack an air base in the disputed region of Kashmir, calling it the first such incident of its kind in India.
Dilbagh Singh, the region's police director-general, told (...)
A United Arab Emirates ban on entry from India, South Africa and Nigeria remains in place, the federal aviation authority said on Sunday, after Dubai had announced it would ease entry restrictions from those countries.
Dubai, a business and tourism (...)
Pakistan's foreign minister said Sunday that violence and lawlessness could reign in Afghanistan after the United States' withdrawal, and that Pakistan would shut its border to the country if the Taliban takes control of it.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi (...)
Egypt has updated the anti-coronavirus safety measures for all arrivals from abroad, including those coming from countries struggling with new COVID-19 variants, according to a statement released by EgyptAir, the national flagship carrier, on (...)
A powerful car bomb went off near the residence of a jailed anti-India militant leader in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, police and rescue officials said.
The blast happened in the (...)
Trella, a Cairo-based digital freight marketplace in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has closed a successful $42m financing round, consisting of $30m of new equity and a $12m debt facility.
Maersk Growth and Raed Ventures (...)
Egypt's Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem inaugurated, on Saturday, the eighth International Festival of Drums and Traditional Arts at the Bir Youssef Theater in Cairo's Citadel of Salah Al-Din.
Titled "Dialogue of Drums for Peace", the festival (...)
Osama Rabie, Head of Suez Canal Authority (SCA), has asserted Egypt's keenness to maximise the benefits of the Suez Canal, through comprehensive development projects.
Rabie's remarks came during his meeting with a high-level Pakistani delegation, (...)
A powerful bomb targeting government soldiers exploded at a coal mine in southwest Pakistan, killing four soldiers, the military said Monday.
The attack happened at Marget Mines, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of (...)
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Sunday in Cairo ways to boost cooperation between Egypt and Pakistan in all fields, especially in military and security cooperation, with Pakistani Chairman joint Chief of Staff Committee General Nadeem (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has asserted Egypt's aspiration to develop bilateral cooperation with Pakistan, including in the fight against terrorism and extremist ideology.
Al-Sisi received Chief of the Pakistani Army's Joint Chiefs-of-Staff (...)
