Egypt has spent around $60 billion on linking its electricity sector to other countries and continents, extending links into Africa, Asia, and Europe, President Abdel–Fattah El-Sisi has said.
In a speech during the G20 Compact with Africa meetings (...)
The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday, carrying out a ``wide-scale'' strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before.
A Britain-based war monitoring group said (...)
Turkey's Interior Minister said on Wednesday that around 100,000 Syrians living without approval in Istanbul had left it since early July, when the government set a deadline for Syrians not registered in the city to leave for other provinces.
As (...)
Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired toward Israel a day earlier.
Syrian state media reported two civilians were killed in the attacks, but said Syria's (...)
Egypt has spent around $60 billion on linking its electricity sector to other countries and continents, extending links into Africa, Asia, and Europe, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said.
In a speech during the G20 Compact with Africa meetings (...)
Turkey's defence ministry said on Tuesday Kurdish YPG militia had killed three people and wounded eight in a missile attack on a school in the Tel Abyad region of northern Syria which they were meant to have withdrawn from under a ceasefire (...)
Russia said on Tuesday it was bewildered by a Turkish pledge to conduct a new military operation in northern Syria if the area was not cleared of people Ankara calls terrorists, warning that any such move would damage efforts to stabilise the (...)
The 41st Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) opened on Tuesday with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. A $160 million Netflix production based on Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses, it stars Robert De Niro in his ninth collaboration (...)
On Monday evening, Middle East time, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the US no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as inconsistent with international law, signalling a drastic shift in (...)
The US announced it would withdraw its troops in northern Syria from border areas with Turkey on 7 October, with US President Donald Trump tweeting the decision several times and triggering intense debate in US decision-making circles about the (...)
By the middle of this week, the Iranian authorities in Tehran had declared that the major protests against rising fuel prices that have been sweeping the country were “almost calm, though some insurgents remain”.
Yet, these protests differ from the (...)
A WEST Cairo military criminal court on Sunday sentenced Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari to death and other defendants to heavy jail terms for their part in a deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis, writes Ahmed Eleiba.
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“Not Gaza, not Lebanon, I give my life for Iran.” “Leave Iraq and think of us.” “Leave Syria and think of us.” These were some of the chants made by the thousands of Iranians who took to the streets of towns and cities across the country this week (...)
The Small Group on Syria, including Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UK, and U.S. issued a statement on Thursday opposing forced demographic changes on Syrian lands, and called upon players in northeast Syria to implement an immediate (...)
Turkey bought S-400 missile defense systems from Russia to use them, not put them aside, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate said on Saturday, days after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump.
In an (...)
A bomb attack killed 10 people in the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab near the Turkish border on Saturday, Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency said.
It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack.
Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies (...)
German authorities have arrested a German citizen accused of being a member of Islamic State upon her return to Germany, federal prosecutors said on Saturday.
The woman, identified only as Nasim A., was arrested on Friday evening. A court will (...)
Marcello Lippi's second attempt to walk away from his role as coach of China inside a year looks like sticking after the Chinese Football Association (CFA) said on Friday they had accepted his resignation.
The 71-year-old Italian, who left the job (...)
The Small Group on Syria, which includes Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and the US, issued a statement on Thursday opposing forced demographic changes on Syrian lands, and called upon players in northeast Syria to implement an (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, calling it a "very serious challenge" to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has asserted the anti-Daesh international coalition needs to continue exerting efforts to achieve its targets, necessitating the confrontation of any country that uses terrorism to achieve political goals.
Shoukry on (...)
Turkish officials say two explosions at an ammunition depot in southeast Turkey have injured 16 military personnel and one civilian.
Gov. Abdullah Erin of Sanliurfa province has told reporters that the explosions occurred late Wednesday at the (...)
Syrian government forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country's northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported.
News agency SANA said troops were deploying between (...)
The big buzz nowadays is the announcement of the Nobel Prize Winners, an honoured tradition for the highest standard of achievement, for over a century.
While the monetary reward is significant, almost $1 million, it is the prestige and honour that (...)
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday lauded his relationship with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as the leaders started a meeting to overcome mounting differences between the two NATO allies ranging from Syria policy to Turkey's purchase of a (...)
