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The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad, told a press conference with US President Donald Trump on Thursday that his country’s mediation had succeeded in stopping any military action...

The Gulf is no longer a single nation after the recent crisis between the states and their communities. This crisis has done away with the ties of brotherhood, history...

You don’t need to be very intelligent or make any great effort to understand Donald Trump’s position on the current Gulf crisis, which is likely to last for months,...

Daesh has claimed responsibility for killing 29 Egyptian Copts on Friday while they were on their way to Dier Anba Samwail (Monastery of St. Samuel), west of Minya in...

We cannot begin to understand the disintegration and fragmentation plaguing the Arab region without looking at the failures of the nation states that were established on the ruins of...

  The assassination of Adel Ragai, commander of the Egyptian army’s Ninth Armoured Division, in front of his house last week, has opened the door to a number of...

General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime has used up all its chances for remaining in power and it is about to collapse at any moment. This is not wishful thinking,...

The assassination of Jordanian writer and left-wing activist Nahed Hattar at the hands of an individual who was grieving the death of a loved one and unable to avenge...

"The initiative includes general aims and slogans that are clearly romanticised, such as fighting poverty, ignorance and disease, and having justice, education and health..."