Middle East Experience

An Italian woman and her four children have been repatriated to Italy, where she was arrested on terror-related charges for having gone to Syria with her husband to join the Islamic State.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Terror charges follow Islamic State woman repatriated to Italy

The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, reverses its decision to boycott parliamentary elections.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Islamists gear up for elections in Jordan amid widespread voter apathy

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz confirmed today that Israel and Lebanon will open direct talks on demarking their maritime border with US mediation.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel, Lebanon agree to maritime border talks

The head of Israel's foreign intelligence service Mossad, Joseph (Yossi) Cohen, visited Bahrain on Wednesday and met with the Gulf country’s top security officials, Bahrain’s state news agency reported on Thursday.Cohen met with Bahrain’s Head of the National Intelligence Serive, Adel bin Khalifa al-Fadil, and the Head of the Strategic Security Service, Sheikh Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Khalifa.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“The two sides discussed issues of common interest and stressed the importance of the Bahrain-Israel peace deal, and how it will contribute to promoting stability and peace in the region and creating prospects of cooperation between the two countries,” BNA reported.The September 15 US-brokered deal was signed in Washington at the same time as an Israel-UAE normalization agreement.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the US capital for a ceremony to sign the deals along with the foreign affairs chiefs of the two Arab monarchies of the Gulf.Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates became the third and fourth Arab countries to normalise ties with Israel, following Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with the Jewish state and Egypt's peace deal in 1979.- With AFPRead more:Bahrain Crown Prince tells Netanyahu Israel deal will strengthen regional securityBahrain, at peace signing with Israel, calls for two-state solution for PalestiniansSettlement of Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on two-state solution: Bahrain FM
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Head of Israel’s Mossad visits Bahrain, meets intelligence and security officials

Families of child soldiers reported being targeted by Saudi-led….
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Saudi Arabia enlisted poverty-stricken children for Yemen war, offered recruiters cash rewards: UN report

Political factions in Sudan are split over the issue of normalisation with Israel, which the country's leading religious body has declared unacceptable..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Leading Sudan religious body issues fatwa against normalisation with Israel

Morocco’s recently enacted Right to Information Law is a potentially powerful tool in the hands of its citizens, but their ability to use it is still largely dependent on the government’s commitment to transparency and political will to enforce it..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Power to the People? The Right to Information Law in Morocco

More investments in hi-tech are needed as the start-up nation is currently going through “the quiet before the storm” as the COVID-19 world recession is reshaping the global economy.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: VLX start-up incubator offers bug-eyed, ice-cool technology innovation

Egyptian police and prosecutors have been accused of inflicting verbal abuse, extracting forced confessions and denying detainees access to legal counsel and medical care..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: LGBTQ activists subjected to ‘forced virginity exams’ in Egypt: HRW

Israel's energy minister confirmed that two sides would hold US-mediated talks.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: First Israeli-Lebanese talks in 30 years to be held on maritime dispute