Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one.
At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the UN's most powerful body to do more to (...)
Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria _ a particularly devastating development in a region where scores of hospitals have been bombed and that doctors and nurses have fled in droves during a (...)
Egypt welcomes an invitation by DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi to resume the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) sponsored by the African Union, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Wednesday.
In remarks to Sky News, (...)
In his last briefing to the UN Security Council, UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen suggested taking advantage of the relative cessation of hostilities in the country to bring together the main regional and international stakeholders for (...)
On 7 September, former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Simone Ledeen wrote an opinion article in the Washington political magazine The Hill arguing that her country should continue to provide security assistance to Egypt.
Some Democratic (...)
The UN has been warning of imminent famine in a number of African and Arab countries, unable until present to put together the resources necessary to prevent widespread hunger. This will be the subject of discussion of the UN General Assembly this (...)
In person and on screen, world leaders returned to the United Nations' foremost gathering for the first time in the pandemic era on Tuesday with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda and a sharply worded warning from the international organization's (...)
Syria's defense minister met Sunday with Jordan's army chief in Amman after Syrian troops captured several rebel-held areas near Jordan's border, state media reported.
The Hala Akhbar news site, which is linked to Jordan's military, reported that (...)
A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon early Thursday, a delivery organized by the militant Hezbollah group to ease crippling fuel shortages in the crisis-hit country.
The delivery violates U.S. (...)
Federal prosecutors in Germany said Thursday they have indicted four men on suspicion of supporting the Islamic extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
Prosecutors said in a statement that one the men _ who were indicted last month _ is also accused of (...)
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الحادى عشر من سبتمبر: عشرون عامًا على الواقعة
د.جودة عبد الخالق
أمريكا تعيش حاليا الذكرى العشرين لهجمات الحادى عشر من سبتمبر عام 2001. ففي ذلك اليوم هاجمت ثلاث طائرات برجَىْ مركز التجارة العالمية في نيويورك ومقر وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية (...)
قامت ناقلة النفط الإيرانية FAXON (9283758) بتفريغ حمولتها من الغاز في سوريا، صباح اليوم الثلاثاء، لعدم قدرتها على توصيله بشكل مباشر إلى لبنان.
ووفقًا لما نقلته شبكة سكاي نيوز، فقد اضطرت الباخرة الإيرانية لتفرغ حمولتها في سوريا قبل نقلها عبر صهاريج (...)
Lebanese cinema has garnered international recognition since the 1970s. One of the most prominent Lebanese filmmakers of that generation was Borhane Alaouié, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 80. Together with Maroun Baghdadi, Jan Shamoun (...)
The Bright Star 2021 joint military exercise, hosted by Egypt, kicked off at the Mohamed Naguib military base in the Northern Military Zone on 2 September. Twenty-one countries are taking part in the two-week drills which conclude on 17 September. (...)
I am writing this article on the very day, 20 years ago, when the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington came under terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists using three civilian airliners.
A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight (...)
Belgrade is gearing up for the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which held its first summit meeting there in 1961. According to Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković, the Serbian capital will be hosting 35 heads (...)
If you want to visualise the financial cost of the war on terror since 11 September 2001, imagine $2 trillion when a dollar is put on top of a dollar reaching far into outer space.
Stephanie Savell
The first $1 trillion would be 67 miles high, (...)
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Syria's Bashar Assad have met in Moscow to discuss the cooperation between their armies and how to continue operations to gain control of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, state media in Damascus reported on (...)
Green recovery, securing development finance, and mobilising international efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while recovering from the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic were the main topics at the two-day (...)
Recent pictures of US troops leaving Afghanistan and desperate attempts to evacuate foreigners and Afghans from the country as they did so have not appeared unfamiliar to many as they revive memories of similar images that swept the world during the (...)
Egyptian commentators say there has been no significant breakthrough in the resumption of Egyptian-Turkish relations. Two exploratory rounds of negotiations have been held in the last four months, one in Cairo in May, the second in Ankara in the (...)
Lebanon formed a new government after 13 months of political feuding and economic meltdown, exacerbated by the Beirut Port blast of August 2020.
The names of the cabinet ministers generated heated debate in public and political circles. Although, as (...)
The day before he officially recognised the Armenian genocide, which is commemorated on 24 April, US President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to notify him. That was the first official phone call he made to his Turkish (...)
The Baghdad Summit meeting last month that brought together several regional rivals has injected fresh hopes into calming tensions and building a larger community with a shared future for the Middle East nations and ushered in a new era for (...)
The badly damaged old section of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, which until recently was held by opposition gunmen, appeared to slowly return to some sense of normalcy Sunday.
The capture of Daraa al-Balad marked another victory for President (...)
