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A Bahraini court Monday convicted in absentia the country’s top activist over alleged fake news on the situation of the country that he disseminated during televised interviews in January 2015. Nabeel Rajab who is currently in hospital was handed two-year Read more
Activists have charged Abu Dhabi and called for the release of a young Emirati arrested for expressing sympathy for Qatar amid the diplomatic row between the tiny gas-rich country and the Saudi-led bloc including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain Read more
Head of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) held talks Saturday in Abu Dhabi with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan over “joint cooperation in combating extremism and terrorist organizations,” few days after the Libyan army general proclaimed the Read more
The more than 425 kilometre march from Ankara to Istanbul led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu ended on Sunday with the main opposition leader stating that “the last day of our Justice March is a new beginning, a new step” in the Read more
Congratulatory messages have been coming from all over the world after Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the army’s victory over the Islamic State group (IS) in Mosul; the last bastion of the group. Prime Minister Abadi congratulated the army Read more
Unconfirmed reports and social media accounts in both Egypt and Palestine have indicated that three members of the Hamas Islamist movement were involved in the Islamic State group (IS)-linked attacks, which killed 23 Egyptian soldiers Friday in the Sinai, Asharq Read more
Head of Suez Canal authority Friday indicated that it would be illegal to ban Qatari ships from using the canal passage but that Egypt can deny ships docking as part of its sovereignty over its territorial waters. Saudi Arabia, the Read more
The aspiration for independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq is still being strongly supported by the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) amid international reticence from encouraging the planned referendum on independence. Hoshyar Siwaily, the head of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Read more
A bomb attack against a police patrol in Al-Musawara neighbourhood, in Qatif, eastern region, left one officer dead on Thursday, making the second attack in the same area this week. Officer Abdullah Treiki Al-Turki died in the attack, which also Read more
German foreign minister Thursday announced that Qatar is willing to share intelligence on some individuals and organizations accused of terrorism by the Saudi-led bloc, which charges the tiny gas-rich country for sponsoring terrorism. Sigmar Gabriel told Deutschlandfunk radio that Qatar Read more