The White House says the US is ending exemptions from sanctions for countries that import Iranian oil. In a statement, the White House said it was taking “timely action to assure that global demand is met as all Iranian oil is removed from the (...)
Four Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) near the border with Iraq, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
Demiroren News Agency said a military base had been attacked in the (...)
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 (...)
With rising prices, a crowded rental market and low interest rates, it now makes sense to buy rather than rent a property. First-time home ownership is, however, falling because young people can't afford it.Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (...)
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 (...)
Spring has arrived in Washington DC, and a sure sign of the change in seasons is the annual parade of Islamist lobbyists who come to the US capital in March and April to advocate, under the guise of human rights, for Islamist causes and to (...)
After it lost the biggest three cities — Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir — in Turkish local elections 31 March, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues its attempts to block that reality from being formalised.
Meanwhile, opposition parties are (...)
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 (...)
Amid Operation Flood of Dignity waged by the Libyan National Army (LNA) against militias in Tripoli, army commander Khalifa Haftar landed in Cairo on Monday for a meeting with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.
A statement by Presidential Spokesman (...)
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 (...)
Amid Operation Flood of Dignity waged by the Libyan National Army (LNA) against militias in Tripoli, army commander Khalifa Haftar landed in Cairo on Monday for a meeting with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.
A statement by Presidential Spokesman (...)
The Tobruk Parliament on Wednesday denounced the Qatari and Turkish “flagrant” intervention into its affairs, calling on the UN Security Council to support the Libyan efforts in “fighting terrorists” in Tripoli.
In a statement, the parliament's (...)
Turkey's ruling party has asked for a recent municipal election it lost in Istanbul to be invalidated.
The Justice and Development Party, or AKP, filed its "extraordinary objection'' to the March 31 election with Turkey's electoral board on Tuesday. (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with the Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, where he asserted Egypt's support for Libya's ongoing onslaught in Tripoli.
Forces affiliated with Haftar have engaged in violent clashes with (...)
Turkey's purchase of Russian air defence missile systems should not trigger U.S. sanctions because Ankara is not an adversary of Washington and remains committed to the NATO alliance, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday.
Akar also said that (...)
Washington, DC- Thousands of delegates and officials have arrived in Washington, DC, for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which is taking place from 8 to 14 April.
The spring meetings of the boards of (...)
The world and its ideas are changing faster than anyone could ever have imagined. From the Cold War we plunged straight into the age of globalisation.
As much as the latter disseminated, it did not prevent the tides of this decade: the reassertion (...)
Taking place across three cities, the seventh India by the Nile festival (5-17 March) took Egypt by storm. Over seven years the annual event — launched in 2013 — has become known to a large segment of the Egyptian population.
A one of a kind, (...)
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 (...)
Washington DC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, Gita Gopinath, said, “One year ago, economic activity was accelerating in almost all regions of the world and the global economy was (...)
As winter bids farewell to Egypt, leaving the space to spring, the Egyptians let go of one of their most favourite winter fruits, which is mandarin. The orange-lookalike fruit is considered one of the closest fruits to Egyptians' hearts which almost (...)
For a country that has been torn apart by terrorism, lawlessness and fanaticism, the declaration of Libyan Army Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on 4 April that he would answer the calls of residents of the Libyan capital Tripoli may mean that (...)
There is a growing view that after seven years of multi-faceted wars, the Eastern Mediterranean is returning to stability.
Four factors lend credibility to this view, but their impact will be merely in the short-term. What will really shape the (...)
After the 2013 protests, there were fluctuations in Egypt's foreign relations, and one of the files was the American weapon deal which was halted since October 2013. It includes 12 F16 aircrafts, 20 harpoons, and 125 MPA 1 tanks. They were suspended (...)
