Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika yesterday announced his determination to develop his country’s links with Morocco following decades of strained relations, the local APS news agency reported. In a congratulatory...

The United States will deliver eight US-made F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in an effort to help fight extremism and to bolster security in the region, the US Embassy...

The Arab League General Secretariat will host the 89th meeting next month to discuss and reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel, a senior official has revealed. Commissioner General of...

Cairo University has dismissed the former prime minister of Egypt from his position in the Faculty of Engineering following the prison sentence handed down to the Mubarak-era official. Egypt’s...

An Israeli army spokesman has threatened to attack Daesh group based in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “If the ‘Province of Sinai’ tried to target our citizens, we should hit it...

An Egyptian court has postponed its verdict in the retrial of two Al Jazeera TV journalists charged with “broadcasting false news” to August 2, a judicial source said Thursday....

Members of the Arab Peace Initiative are to meet in 5 August to discuss the escalation in violence and Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem, the Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian...

Egyptian political science professor and former diplomat Dr Abdullah Al-Ashaal called on Saudi Arabia to mediate between the Egyptian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood, stressing that this would help...

Judge Mohammed Yasser Aboul Fotouh, the Secretary General of the committee tasked to manage funds belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, has said that the committee has decided to seize...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi yesterday announced a new decree annulling a previous law introduced by his predecessor Adly Mansour which obliged the Constitutional Court to adhere to a...

Turkish airport authorities stopped prominent Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmad Mansour yesterday under an Egyptian arrest warrant. In a Facebook post yesterday, Mansour said: “I was stopped at Ankara International Airport...

A British economic research firm said it expected the Egyptian pound to continue to fall to reach 8.25 Egyptian pounds to the dollar by the end of this year....

South African Jewish anti-apartheid stalwart Denis Goldberg believes the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the use of separate laws for different groups of people makes Israel an apartheid state....

A Libyan court sentenced Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and two other former leaders to death on Tuesday. The appellate court sentenced Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler Muammar Gaddafi,...

Tension is mounting between Egypt’s general and military intelligence agencies, the two main arms of the North African country’s national security apparatus due to overlapping jurisdictions in the fight...

Morocco yesterday condemned Israeli police and troops who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on the international community to protect it “in order to avoid inciting Muslims’ feelings”, Jordan’s Al-Ghad newspaper...

Approximately 300 Moroccans involved with jihadist movements have been killed in the last two years, AFP reported the Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Hassad as saying. Speaking to reporters, Hassad...

Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas praised the military coup in Egypt, describing 30 million people taking to the streets voluntarily to call for the coup a...

An Israeli military analyst revealed information on Sunday about joint Israel-Egypt intelligence efforts to tackle Daesh/ISIS in Sinai, Haaretz has reported. Amos Harel described the group in Egypt as...

Senior leaders of the Hamas movement revealed that a delegation from the movement, headed by its political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal, plans to pay another visit to Saudi Arabia...

In a measure intended to get rid of his military opponents, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has sacked 19 senior intelligence officers, Arabi 21 news website reported on Sunday....

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir arrived in Mauritania yesterday to attend a summit, despite an international arrest warrant issued against him in 2009 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on...

The retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists must be discontinued and charges against them dropped unconditionally, says ARTICLE 19, an organisation which campaigns for freedom of expression. The group...

The Egyptian authorities have extended an ongoing state of emergency in certain parts of the volatile Sinai Peninsula for an additional three months. According to Egypt’s official gazette, Prime...

The official Tunisian news agency reported on Friday that the government in Tunis has restored diplomatic relations with the Syrian regime, Palestine’s Al-Quds newspaper has said. According to an...

Israeli analyst Yoni Ben-Menachem is assuming that Saudi Arabia is putting pressure on Egypt in order to reconcile with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, Almesryoon.com reported on Friday. According...

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has said that the arbitrary detention of minors by the Egyptian regime is “systematic and widespread.” According to a case submitted...

An assistant professor of political sociology at King Saud University in Riyadh has claimed that Saudi Arabia is pushing the Egyptian government towards political reconciliation with the opposition. According...

The head of Tunisia’s Wafa movement Abderraouf Ayadi has criticised the draft terror bill currently under discussion in Tunisian Parliament, describing it as a “civil war bill” that serves...

The United Nations has issued a resolution calling for the Egyptian government to clarify the reasons behind the forcible disappearance of dozens of Egyptian citizens, including children, Quds Press...

The following is the text of a communique issued by the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt Perhaps the reactions to the recent terrorist operations, especially those that targeted the army...

An Egyptian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to five year in prison during a retrial for charges of graft during his time in office, Anadolu agency...