August 2019

A Palestinian committee is currently reviewing ways to end all agreements signed with Israel and break economic ties, but Palestinians are wary of such efforts as President Mahmoud Abbas has…

Egypt, Greece and Cyprus have been taking steps to get closer to one another, culminating their rapprochement with the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum that would obstruct the Turkish drilling for…

The Ennahda movement surprised many by putting forward a candidate, Abdel Fattah Mourou, for the presidential elections slated for September. Source: Al Monitor Full Article: Ennahda’s change of heart on…

Lake Qaraoun suffers from industrial pollution from the factories on its banks and agricultural pesticides and no project, local or international, seems to stop it. Source: Al Monitor Full Article:…

Turkey and Qatar have agreed to expand the Qatar-Turkey Combined Joint Force Command in Doha with aerial and naval components as stakes grow higher in the Gulf region. Source: Al…

Two people including a police officer were killed in a gun battle between militants and security forces in Indian Kashmir, police said Wednesday. The clash in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district…

The Iranian oil tanker HELM started moving south of the Red Sea after repairs following a breakdown, according to a report by an Al Arabiya correspondent. Earlier Wednesday, Iran’s state…

The United Nations did not include Israel in its "list of shame" of states committing grave violations against children, despite the figures and statistics released in its special report pointing…

Greece will not provide assistance in delivering oil to Syria to an Iranian tanker now sailing eastward through the Mediterranean, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Wednesday. Source: Al…

The 11-member sovereign council that will lead Sudan through three years of transition to civilian rule was sworn in on Wednesday, state media reported. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who chairs…