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Galal El Behairy has been held in detention since February after penning a song critical of Egypt’s policies, prompting United Nations human rights experts on Thursday to urge the government to release him immediately, a UN release says. The song Read more
President Tayyip Erdogan’s office and the foreign minister Thursday indicated that the United States will not attain the release of US pastor Andrew Craig Brunson with threats. The reaction came after President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence threatened to Read more
Iraqi Airways has dismissed two of its pilots after the pilot and co-pilot on a flight from Iran to the Iraqi capital Baghdad traded fists in a scuffle over a food tray. The airline took sanctions against Captain Ali Ahmed Read more
The United States decided to lift restrictions on $195 million military aid held last year over concern on Egypt’s poor human rights record, an official of the US State Department announced Wednesday. The decision to allow Cairo to use the Read more
Head of the Iranian Revolution Guards Wednesday indicated that US threats to thwart Iran’s oil exports to its buyers will be easily answered. “If the current capabilities of the Revolutionary Guards … reaches the ears of the adventure-seeking president of Read more
Intense diplomatic efforts by the United Nations and Egypt have helped avoid another Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza that appeared just “minutes away” over the past weekend, a senior UN official said on Tuesday. “After intense efforts by the United Nations Read more
Ankara Tuesday said it told the United States it is opposed to sanctions on Iran as the Trump Administration is due to impose new economic punishments on the Islamic Republic next month while the deadline for allies to stop buying Read more
Armed men associated to the Islamic State group (ISIS) murdered two policemen at a checkpoint in the town of Al-Aqilah, in the eastern region, a security official told media Tuesday. Some armed men that security official Ahmed al-Gabiely believed linked Read more
Egyptian news agency MENA announced Tuesday the killing in the Sinai city of al-Arish of 13 men, suspected being militants, amid the ongoing army and security forces’ operation to weed out the Islamic State group (ISIS). The men were killed Read more
Morocco will see returns from a fisheries deal with the EU rise to €52.2 as the two parties concluded negotiations for a new agreement Tuesday in Rabat. The new deal kept unchanged at 128 the number of vessels allowed to Read more