Trade Agreements

Gulf stock markets have suffered sharp declines due to fears of an impending military intervention in Syria. Dubai's share price declined by 7.01 per cent, while Saudi Arabia's share...

Israel's deputy Foreign Minister, Zeev Elkin, has said that his country and the EU would continue to drift apart if they don't find a compromise solution on the new...

Jordan's head of the Development and Free Zones Commission, Maha Khatib, has denied the existence of any agreement or plans to establish a joint industrial zone with Israel. Khatib...

Israel and the Netherlands are at loggerheads after Israel turned down a request to install a new security scanner donated by the Netherlands at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem...

The military coup has resulted in a massive loss to the Egyptian economy estimated at about 120 billion Egyptian pounds (around £11.5 billion/ $17.1 billion), economic experts have calculated....

Even though the "interim" government in Egypt has severed ties with many countries around the world, the coup leaders have commended the policies proposed to tackle the country's deteriorating...

With the focus of the coup government in Egypt on dispersing protesters from the squares and streets of Cairo, it has spent very little time on doing something about...

The General Union for the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce announced on Tuesday that it is suspending all official relations with Turkey in protest of what they are calling Turkish...

Nearly two months after the military coup that ousted Egypt's elected President Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's state-run newspapers are now recognising Morsi and his government's achievements. Al-Ahram newspaper published an...

British Petroleum announced earlier this month that it has found gas resources estimated to be around 1.2 trillion cubic feet, or more, in the Salamat well in the Nile...

An analyst and supposed expert in Arabic and Middle East affairs has called for the Israeli government to declare war on Qatar as an enemy of the state. Mordechai...

The head of the Qatar Institution for Education, Science and Social Development, Princess Moza Bint-Nasser, has met Prince Charles at Windsor Hotel in the UK to discuss the horizons...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni warned on Monday that Israel might face a European economic boycott if it does not make progress in the peace process with the Palestinians,...

The European Union (EU) have drafted a decision, that was endorsed by 27 countries, to put a commercial label on the products of Israeli settlements in the West Bank...

Three major supermarkets in the Netherlands have announced their boycott of Israeli settlement products, following the European Union announcement of its own plan to boycott such items. Dutch newspaper...

Turkey has suspended almost thirty agreements and cooperative protocols with Egypt in various fields such as transportation, education and health that were signed during Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's...

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has claimed that several European countries have warned their businessmen against trading with companies based in or producing goods on Israeli settlements. The newspaper said...

The Spanish government has announced the suspension of all military export licenses to Egypt, in condemnation of the use of excessive force against civilians. The suspended licenses included those...

Sources in Russia have revealed that the government in Moscow has delayed the delivery of fighter jets and missile defence systems to the Assad regime, citing Syria's failure to...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has signed a framework agreement for cooperation with Russia. Secretary General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu met the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow this week....

Earlier this month, Oxfam published 20 facts about Oslo that painfully illustrate why the "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine have abysmally failed. In the past ten years alone,...

Israel's settlements – civilian communities built on land occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War – are widely accepted to be illegal under international law. They have been...

Visiting South Africa is always a pleasure, but when the purpose is to attend a conference there is usually something extra special to look forward to. The Afro-Middle East...