Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2006 will be held later this year. But the road to the vote — key to advancing Palestinian statehood and mending a rift between Abbas' (...)
A Libyan political dialogue arranged by the United Nations has made progress towards agreeing a new transitional government to oversee the run-up to elections in December, the U.N. said on Saturday.
Participants at talks in Geneva agreed on a (...)
Greek lawmakers in a vote Thursday approved a defense procurement program to purchase 18 French-made Rafale fighter planes, part of an armaments plan announced by the government in September.
Greece has earmarked 11.5 billion euros ($14 billion) for (...)
A top Turkish official is calling on the new U.S. administration to engage in a dialogue with Turkey and to review a decision to sanction the country over its purchase of an advanced Russian air defense system.
That request comes even though (...)
Global sukuk supply is expected to accelerate in 2021 following a resilient 2020 as issuers seek to address the elevated debt and to meet large budget needs caused by COVID-19, according to Fitch Ratings.
The reconciliation deal signed between GCC (...)
Egypt's Ministries of International Cooperation and of Tourism and Antiquities have signed a COVID-19 tourism recovery technical assistance cooperation package with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the the United (...)
In June 2017, Egypt joined three Gulf countries – Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain – in severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, starting a total boycott of the small country. Qatar's national carrier was no longer allowed to fly to the four countries (...)
Interpol has issued a wanted notice for two Russians and a Portuguese man over explosive material that had been shipped to Beirut and stored at the city's port for six years until it exploded in August, the state-run National News Agency reported (...)
Sultan Haitham Bin Tarek Al-Said of Oman issued two royal decrees on Monday setting up a new legislative council for the country and establishing mechanisms to appoint a crown-prince and guarantee the stability and transfer of power.
Last year, (...)
Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad Al-Hariri had a business lunch with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Istanbul, in a meeting that neither man tried to keep secret. Soon after the talks, which lasted for a couple of hours, were (...)
The reconciliation agreement with Qatar signed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain last week “is supposed to end three years of difference between the Quartet states and Qatar” said a diplomat speaking on condition of (...)
On 7 January, Turkish and Greek coastguard vessels clashed in the Aegean Sea, escalating the tensions between the two NATO members. On 22 December, Turkey announced it would continue to conduct its seismic research activities in the Eastern (...)
The recently released European Parliament report on the state of human rights in Egypt has elicited strong reactions in the regular and social media in Egypt and abroad.
Many have charged that the report is biased and disseminates misinformation, (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss reopening transport routes in the region that have been paralyzed for nearly three decades amid a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The talks (...)
The powerful interior minister of Libya's UN-backed government, seen as a contender for the post of prime minister, has expressed hopes that bringing stability to his war-torn country would become a top priority for the incoming Biden (...)
A Turkish court accepted an indictment against jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas on Thursday, state media reported, rebuffing demands by the European Court of Human Rights for his release.
The indictment is the second against Demirtas, a (...)
The embrace that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman gave Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the latter's arrival in Saudi Arabia after three and a half years of rupture between the two countries signalled the beginning of a resolution to the (...)
Teachers at Istanbul's Bogazici University protested on Tuesday against the swearing-in of a new rector appointed by President Tayyip Erdogan, extending demonstrations started by students.
Hundreds of students and about two dozen faculty members say (...)
Since storming off stage during a live debate on the Israeli military operation in Gaza aired during the Davos Conference in 2009, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acquired a reputation for anti-Israeli rhetoric. Following the Mavi Marmara (...)
In 2017, a boycott had started in response to Doha's support for terrorist groups seeking to destabilise the region.
The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, attended the meeting of the Supreme Council of the GCC for the first time in four (...)
India on Friday became the fourth country to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, authorising the vaccine's rollout in coming weeks in the country with the second highest number of infections.
The following (...)
شهد عام 2020 تركيزًا في أجندة الرئيس التركي أردوغان السياسية على الهند، وذلك في إطار استراتيجية أوسع لتمديد هيمنة تركيا اقتصاديا وسياسيا على منطقة جنوب آسيا متخذة من التكتلات السكانية المسلمة في الهند معبرا لها للوصول إلى هذا الهدف.
ويقول محللون إن (...)
شهد عام 2020 تركيزًا في أجندة الرئيس التركي أردوغان السياسية على الهند، وذلك في إطار استراتيجية أوسع لتمديد هيمنة تركيا اقتصاديا وسياسيا على منطقة جنوب آسيا متخذة من التكتلات السكانية المسلمة في الهند معبرا لها للوصول إلى هذا الهدف.
ويقول محللون إن (...)
شهدت أجندة الرئيس التركى أردوغان السياسية عام 2020 تركيزًا على منطقة جنوب آسيا وخاصة الهند، وذلك فى إطار استراتيجية أوسع لتمديد هيمنة تركيا اقتصاديا وسياسيا على منطقة جنوب آسيا، متخذة من التكتلات السكانية المسلمة فى الهند معبرا لها للوصول إلى هذا (...)
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as the country has (...)
