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Saif al-Islam, son of Libya’s former strongman Muammar Gaddafi, is mulling participation in next year elections as requested by his supporters, his spokesman has said. “Saif al-Islam will run for the upcoming presidential elections, which may take place in mid-2018,” Read more
Egypt’s former Premier and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq will face a case in court over announcement of his likely candidacy for 2018 presidential elections on Doha-based al Jazeera. A lawyer is suing the former army senior officer and premier for Read more
Lebanese Security authorities have identified the alleged murderer of Rebecca Dykes as Tariq H., a Lebanese working for Uber company. Arrested on Monday, Tariq H. confessed to the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) to have killed the British diplomat positioned Read more
Egypt plans to join a Gulf power link with the signing of agreements next April with Saudi Arabia to finance the $1.6 bln project. Quoted by Bloomberg, Egypt’s Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said his country will finance $600 million adding Read more
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar commanding the east-based Libyan National Army (LNA) indicated Sunday that the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) brokered by the UN is outdated and the institutions associated to it have lost legitimacy. “All the dialogues starting from Ghadames Read more
Fourteen members of the UN Security Council will submit a one page draft resolution to reverse President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The draft resolution is backed by France and UK, Washington’s key allies who slammed President Read more
The Egyptian Army is supervising the construction of Egypt’s new administrative capital in a move to bolster Sisi’s rule. The yet-unnamed new administrative capital, expected to be completed in mid-2019, was launched in eastern Cairo in order to house the Read more
In response to Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his country plans moving its embassy to East Jerusalem. “The day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy Read more
The United States Thursday said it has clear evidences that the ballistic missile launched by Yemen Houthi rebels early November was supplied by Iran. US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley told media that the US has evidences that Iran Read more
Syrian and Lebanese authorities officially re-opened Thursday one of the five border crossings between the two countries closed in 2012 after Syrian and Lebanese forces launched assaults against terrorists who established bases near the Syrian border. The re-opening was marked Read more