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...

With less than a week left before the 30 July retrial of the remaining two Al-Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt, tensions are running high over what might happen next....

The crisis in Egypt is growing in complexity and severity by the day. In the meantime, major Arab states, foremost among them Saudi Arabia, behave as if they have...

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...

Unlike Egypt, where, at the outset, I mostly felt I was sharing a transformative moment with exciting potential for the country, its people, and possibly the region—even the world—the...

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 relationship between Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood can be represented by a zigzag line, crossed by several intersections, over the past eight decades. The two entities are...

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...

In a season marked by various union, local and parliamentary elections, Moroccan political parties, trade unions and civil society have exchanged hidden messages about the expected electoral heat. True,...

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...

David Cameron’s much-trailed speech in Birmingham this week about “the struggle of our generation” failed miserably to live up to its billing. Instead of tackling genuine concerns about terrorism,...

Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane has said that “political, economic and social reforms in Morocco have contributed to the kingdom’s stability and security and enhanced its status as an...

The Moroccan delegate to the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, has revealed that more than 70,000 Moroccan citizens have been removed from Libya since the start...

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has called on the international community to support a national unity government in Libya to resolve the crisis, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported. Sellal...

The British-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) officially gained consultative status at the United Nations on Monday, as a bid by Israel to block the move failed. Meeting in New...

Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal, a writer and journalist close to the Egyptian authorities, has attacked Saudi Arabia, saying that its regime is not sustainable. He has also criticised King Salman...

Tunisian troops exchanged fire with an anonymous armed group at the Tunisian-Libyan border town of Ben Guerdane, Anadolu agency reported on Tuesday. The exchange came as Tunisian troops attempted...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday signed a resolution to grant Tunisia a loan of $100 million, a decision that was agreed upon by the governments of the two...

Plans to build a sand wall barrier on the Tunisian-Libyan border have been met by defiance from the residents of Tunisia’s Bin Qirdan state, which lies near the borders...