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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met in Ankara on Thursday several Turkish senior officials. After a meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, he told reporters they discussed “options that are available” regarding issues that are affecting their bilateral ties. Read more
A senior European Union (EU) diplomat has revealed, under the condition of anonymity, that it has received “a formal request” from Libya for logistical support in combatting illegal migration to Europe. The request which is under consideration by the EU Read more
Morocco has been elected Vice-President of the UN conference on restrictions on nuclear arms, taking place in the UN headquarters in New York. The North African country represents the African continent alongside South Africa. The kingdom’s permanent envoy at the Read more
United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has revealed what seems to be White House’s revised policy and strategy in Syria. “We can’t necessarily focus on Assad the way the previous administration maybe did” even though he is considered Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years, undermining the steady improvement achieved before 2010 when the prevalence of undernourishment, Read more
Turkey’s National Security Council has officially announced the end of its Euphrates Shield military operation into Syria and deemed it “successfully completed” in accomplishing the mission of “preventing the threat from Daesh and (enabling the) return of Syrian refugees to Read more
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is in Iraq to “focus on the dire humanitarian situation on the ground” as the war against the extremist Islamic State group intensifies in Mosul. He said that the protection of civilians should be the Read more
The Arab Summit held in Jordan ended with the Arab States reaffirming their support to the Arab Peace Initiative while renewing their call for a two-state solution to the more than 50-year old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has taken the dimension Read more
Israel’s counterterrorism bureau has called on Israelis to leave Egypt because of a terrorist threat “in the immediate future.” The government does not have “specific warnings” of areas that could be targeted but the head of the counterterrorism bureau, Eitan Read more
Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser, Qatari Prime Minister and Interior Minister, told participants at the Qatar-UK Business and Investment Forum that the Gulf State has “great confidence” in the United Kingdom and that this will be expressed though “investments over the Read more