Syrians arrested while attempting to illegally emigrate
Arrested group include 2 underage Egyptians, 18 Syrians
Read More →Syria calls presidential elections for 3 June
AFP- Syria said Monday it will hold presidential elections expected to return President Bashar Al-Assad to office on 3 June, despite a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people. Underlining the ongoing violence read the rest…
Read More →Syria presidential vote on June 3: parliament speaker
Syria’s first presidential election will be held amid a devastating civil war
Read More →Egyptian FM meets with Russian envoy
Nabil Fahmy and Russian counterparts discuss bilateral relations, security situation
Read More →Fahmy presses Arab League chief on activating terrorism convention
Foreign minister and Arab League Secretary General discuss terrorism and regional issues
Read More →Mortar fire on Syria schools kills child, hurts 40: Media
AFP – Mortar rounds fired on schools in the Syrian capital on Tuesday killed a child and wounded more than 40 people, among them more children, state media said. Rebels fighting to oust President Bashar read the rest…
Read More →Hezbollah shifts tactics, narrative for Syria fight
Shedding its guerrilla tactics to fight alongside an army
Read More →Egyptian accused of terrorism charges after returning from Syria
38 year-old Egyptian had been fighting in Syria alongside the Al-Nusra Front
Read More →Regime to blame for most Syria abuses: UN rights chief
AFP – Syria must be held accountable for abuses against its people and those responsible should be hauled before the International Criminal Court, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Tuesday. “Criminal justice must be read the rest…
Read More →Iraq attacks kill 12 as soldiers ambush militants
AFP- Attacks in Iraq left 12 people dead Tuesday while security forces said they killed 25 militants near Baghdad amid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections. The latest violence is read the rest…
Read More →UN warns of drought crisis in Syria
Byrs said it was not clear how many more people would end up counting on food aid supplies because of the drought.
Read More →Syria presidential candidacy to open this month: Minister
AFP – Candidates for presidential elections in Syria this year will be able to submit their applications during the last 10 days of April, state media reported, quoting Information Minister Omran Al-Zohbi. The minister also read the rest…
Read More →Gunman kills well-known Dutch priest in Syria’s Homs
Father Frans van der Lugt was shot and killed by a gunman on April 7, 2014, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saying the motive for the attack was unclear
Read More →Fahmy, Ban Ki-moon discuss Egypt peacekeeping role
Egypt has weighed in on several peacekeeping efforts as well as being one of the parties involved in the debate on the Ethiopian Dam.
Read More →Kerry scrambles to save his torpedoed peace effort
The top US diplomat, who has made the quest for a long-elusive peace treaty his personal holy grail, was blindsided late Tuesday as minutes before a press conference at the NATO headquarters, both sides went rogue.
Read More →Jailed Israeli spy could be key to peace talks
A source close to the talks said on Tuesday that there was a proposal which could see Pollard freed before the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins mid-April.
Read More →More than 150,000 killed in Syria conflict: NGO
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 150,344 people, 51,212 of them civilians, including nearly 7,985 children.
Read More →Syria rebels lick their wounds in Lebanon border town
Arsal too has suffered violence, including Syrian air strikes, incidents pitting Lebanon’s army against Lebanese and Syrian extremists, and on Saturday a car bomb that killed three soldiers.
Read More →Two Spanish journalists freed in Syria: colleagues
El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa, 49, and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, 42, were “freed and handed over to the Turkish military”, the Spanish newspaper said on its website.
Read More →Two Spanish journalists freed in Syria: press
AFP - Two Spanish journalists taken hostage by an Al-Qaeda-linked group last year have been freed, the Spanish daily El Mundo reported Sunday. “At 21:27 (Spanish time 2027 GMT Saturday) veteran El Mundo Middle East correspondent read the rest…
Read More →Then and Now
I am always intrigued by the dizzying changes that have enveloped Egypt in the past year. What I find to be most amusing is how certain positions have totally gone from one extreme to the read the rest…
Read More →Arab League refuses to recognise Israel as a Jewish state
Adly Mansour discusses Palestine, Syria, illiteracy and terrorism in his address at the 25th Arab League Summit
Read More →Arab summit kicks off with calls to arm Syria rebels
The head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Jarba, repeated calls on the international community to supply rebels with “sophisticated weapons”.
Read More →Syria opposition calls for ‘sophisticated’ arms
Addressing the Arab summit in Kuwait, National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba urged Arabs to give Syria’s Arab League seat to the opposition and hand them Syria’s embassies in their countries.
Read More →Saudi says world has ‘betrayed’ Syria rebels
Saudi Arabia is one of the main backers of the rebellion against Assad that erupted three years ago and has become a full-fledged civil war after loyalists launched a crackdown against protesters seeking democratic reforms.
Read More →Syrian conflict takes centre stage at Arab summit
The dispute which broke out in the runup to the summit pits Qatar against Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Read More →Syria rebels seize key area on Turkey border: NGO
The air raids come a day after a Syrian warplane was shot down by Ankara’s jets in an incident slammed as “flagrant aggression” by Damascus.
Read More →Turkey downs Syria warplane on border: NGO
AFP - Turkish anti-aircraft fire shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday as it bombed rebels fighting to seize control of a border post in northwestern Syria, an NGO said. “Turkish air defences targeted a Syrian read the rest…
Read More →Foreign Minister meets with Kuwaiti leaders ahead of 25th Arab League Summit
Nabil Fahmy’s Kuwaiti visit comes on the heels of a two-day stint to Beirut
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