Several Russian envoys met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and discussed a constitutional committee, trade, as well as the ways to improve Syria's relations with neighbouring Arab countries, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
Formation of a (...)
Iraq will host senior parliamentary officials from arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday as Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi seeks to bolster his country's nascent role as a mediator in the region.
Delegations including the heads of (...)
A Bosnian national suspected of fighting for Islamic State in Syria has been transferred to Bosnia and put in detention, Bosnia's prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
After the collapse of Islamic State's self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, (...)
When I met our Ambassador to Brazil Alaa Roushdi, he reminded me that we import about $2.8 billion worth of produce from Brazil. The private sector is the most active, bringing to Egypt an array of produce including chickens, sugar, meat and (...)
President of the Emirates Policy Centre (EPC), a leading Emirati think tank, Ebtessam Al-Ketbi was in Cairo this week to take part in the launch of a project at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on the future of the Middle East.
The (...)
US President Donald Trump's classification of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group has sparked fears among many Iraqis that their country may emerge as a potential field of confrontation between Tehran and Washington.
The (...)
The 12th round of the Astana meetings on the Syrian crisis is in the news this month, and the Turkish authorities have said that five more countries, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Germany and China, can participate in the talks scheduled for 25-26 April in (...)
D-CAF's 8th edition (29 March-21April)
Greek Campus
28 Falaki St, Bab Al-Louk, Cairo, Tel 010 90322400
Fri 19, 8pm: Contributing fresh and creatively-mixed genres and sounds to D-CAF's music programme this year, these three emerging Egyptian artists (...)
An important event for Egypt's film community since it was established by documentary filmmaker Hashem Al-Nahhas in 1991 (initially as round 11 of a Cairo documentary festival that had been held in 1971-1980), the annual Ismailia International Film (...)
Ahly, having climbed to the summit of the Egyptian Premier League table for the first time this season, face a stern test to retain their position on top against a Pyramids side that have not thrown in the towel yet in an exciting three-horse race (...)
German authorities have arrested a man suspected of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and later helping send another new recruit for IS from Germany to Syria.
Federal prosecutors said the 28-year-old German national, identified only as Volkan (...)
Italian news agency ANSA says authorities have arrested an Italian convert to Islam and a Moroccan resident who met over the Internet and were preparing to fight with Islamic State in Syria.
Sicilian prosecutors who ordered the arrests Wednesday (...)
The 2019 Memorial Lecture honouring Edward W. Said, "Out of Place: Refugees, Immigrants, and Storytelling" couldn't have come at a more appropriate moment. And the main speaker for that event, Viet Thanh Nguyen, was the right person for the job. (...)
A New Zealand nurse and two Syrian drivers working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were abducted in Syria by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in 2013, the aid organisation and New Zealand's government said Monday, (...)
Syrians in government-controlled areas who have survived eight years of war now face a new scourge: widespread fuel shortages that have brought life to a halt in major cities.
Cars line up by the hundreds outside petrol stations, and long lines of (...)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed for information on the fate of three employees abducted in Syria more than five years ago and last known to have been held by Islamic State.
Breaking its silence on the case on Sunday, (...)
نشر نشطاء وصفحات سورية على موقع التدوينات القصيرة "تويتر"، فيديو لفتاة سورية قالوا أنها تنتمي للطائفة العلوية التي ينتمي إليها رئيس النظام السوري بشار الأسد، أثناء تواجدها لدى شيخ لإثبات برائتها أمام الجميع بانها لم تمارس الجنس مع أحد غير (...)
The famous legal case dubbed the Marriott Cell in Egypt goes back to the year 2014 when three Al Jazeera English journalists were sentenced to seven years for belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and fabricating news to support the agenda of the (...)
The deep chill in U.S.-Russian relations is stirring concern in some quarters that Washington and Moscow are in danger of stumbling into an armed confrontation that, by mistake or miscalculation, could lead to nuclear war.
American and European (...)
Egypt has one of the world's oldest postal systems, possibly the oldest if one counts the methods used to transport letters and other items during the ancient Egyptian period. It also has one of the world's oldest dedicated postal museums presenting (...)
The upcoming announcement of the American plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, tensions in the US-Turkish relationship, Israeli elections, Washington's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, ongoing US interest in (...)
Challenges facing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) extend beyond pressures against its budget.
Russia's military expansion outside its borders and into regions such as Crimea, Ukraine and Syria is causing the ire of NATO member (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi discussed several bilateral and regional issues with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington. Following the meeting, Trump praised Al-Sisi efforts for combating terrorism, saying that a lot of progress (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election on Wednesday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority despite a close contest against his main centrist challenger, a vote tally (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is on an African-American tour this week. Guinea was the first leg of the tour, followed by the US. Later he will visit Senegal and the Ivory Coast.
The West African tour underlines Egypt's keenness to coordinate with (...)
