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April 24, 2017

Leading Morocco Islamist party is united, official says

A Moroccan minister and leading figure within the Justice and Development Party (JDP), Mustafa Al-Rameid, denied yesterday factional divisions due to the formation of the new coalition government led...

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April 24, 2017

Sudan calls for South Sudan to pay oil arrears

Sudanese Finance Minister Badreldin Mahmoud called on Saturday for South Sudan to pay the arrears and financial disbursements related to passage of its oil through Sudanese soil, Turkish state-owned...

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April 24, 2017

US defence secretary visits military base used to strike Yemen

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Djibouti yesterday to visit an important military base at the southern entrance to the Red Sea used as a launch pad for...

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April 24, 2017

Iraq struggling to fight Daesh in vast Anbar deserts

A day after an ambush by Daesh militants killed tens of Iraqi government soldiers and officers and wounded many more others, an Iraqi force has launched a counterattack against...

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April 24, 2017

Saudi FM: ‘Saudi Arabia and Egypt are two wings of the Arab region’

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday where he received a royal welcome from King Salman. The meeting aimed at “bolstering strategic relations between the two...

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April 24, 2017

40 Palestinian prisoners join mass hunger strike

As many as 40 Palestinian prisoners held in the Israeli Megiddo prison have joined the collective hunger strike which began on 17 April, the Media Committee of the Freedom...

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April 24, 2017

Morocco slams Algeria for expelling 55 Syrian refugees

Morocco yesterday summoned the Algerian ambassador to Rabat to express its worry about Algeria’s attempt to expel 55 Syrian who “illegally” entered the country, the Safa news agency reported....

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April 24, 2017

Israel stops tourists accessing Bethlehem

Israel has tightened restrictions on the movement of tourists to the occupied West Bank with particular limitations on their access to occupied Bethlehem, sources told Ma’an. According to the...

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April 24, 2017

Egypt court rules against stripping Qaradawi of his citizenship

An administrative court in Egypt has decided to halt a lawsuit filed by the lawyer Sami Sabri to strip Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and nine other opposition members of their...

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April 24, 2017

Netanyahu calls on PA to stop paying prisoners’ families

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop paying salaries to the families of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, Israeli media reported on...

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