Friday, March 23, 2018

Electoral farce in Egypt

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By Alain Gresh   On March 26 and 28 Egyptians will be called to the polls to choose the President of the Republic. If we had to describ...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Presidential candidate in Egypt in prison, deputy attacked

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Hisham Geneina  Egypt's former top auditor and a leading member of an opposition campaign against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi  ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Sentence Bahraini human rights activits Nabeel Rajab widely condemned

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Nabeel Rajab Human rights groups have roundly condemned a ruling by a Bahraini court to affirm a two-year jail sentence for activist N...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Twenty one people killed after five days of unrest in Iran

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  (Anadolu) Nine more people have died in overnight clashes between protesters and security forces in Iran, state television has report...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Egypt executes 15 people

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Egyptian authorities have hanged 15 men at two prisons in the north of the country, as part of a controversial policy.The men were convicted...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Former Yemeni president Saleh killed in battle in Sanaa

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Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with the Iran-aligned Houthi militia raging in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, ...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Israel attacks base used by Hezbollah in Syria

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 Israel has been accused by the Syrian government of launching an aerial attack against a military airport near to the capital, Damascus, ...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

At least 305 killed in attack on mosque in North Sinai

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Updated. Egyptian media reports say at least 305 people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the country's nort...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Palestinian factions agree to hold elections no later than the end of 2018

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 Palestinian negotiators Salah Arouri of Hamas and Azzam Ahmad of Fatah (right) during their meeting on 12 October. Background: the new lo...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Saudi Arabia wanted to replace Hariri because he did not confront Hezbollah

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 Posters are seen in Beirut with the text''We are all Saad''. (Foto AP) (Exclusive for Reuters) BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fro...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Saudiya, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain advise citizens to leave Lebanon

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Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have advised their citizens not to travel to Lebanon and urged those who are in the countr...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Lebanon's prime minister and Yemen's president reported to be under house arrest in Saudi Arabia

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Hariri Saad al-Hariri, who quit as Lebanese Prime Minister in a weekend broadcast from Saudi Arabia, has been held under house arrest i...