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Official reports from the Arab League have confirmed that the Egyptian government has nominated Ahmed Aboul Gheit in replacement for the League’s outgoing Secretary General Nabil Al Arabi who stated recently that he has no intention to seek a second Read more
Russia’s powerful Federal Security Service (FSB) announced it nabbed seven members of the Islamic State who were planning terrorist attacks on Russian soil. The seven members are from Russia and from some Central Asian countries and are led by a Read more
As Ankara and Moscow continue to have issues over airspace violations and approval of flights, the Russian Foreign Ministry has called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to refrain from interfering from what it considers to be a bilateral Read more
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused the Syrian regime together with its allies of committing a “war crime” in the war torn country as he condemns Moscow’s military actions. His allegations are expected to further fuel the tension between Turkey Read more
Iran manifested its commitment to respecting the nuclear agreement that it signed with the so-called P5+1 on July 14 by shipping more than 11,300 kilograms of low enriched-uranium to Russia in exchange for some natural uranium. Moscow confirmed the shipping Read more
The diplomatic row between Moscow and Ankara which began with the downing of a Russian warplane last month for allegedly entering Turkish airspace from Syria is slowly integrating maritime transportation into it. Sources familiar with the dossier hinted that Turkey Read more
Visiting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan together with Emir Sheikh Tammim Bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar co-presided over the first meeting of the two countries’ Supreme Strategic Committee which ended with the signing of 15 agreements and memorandum of understanding, Read more
Peace will return to Syria only when the West and its Middle East allies stop supporting the terrorists battling the Syrian regime. The statement was made by the controversial Syrian leader Bashar Assad in an interview aired Tuesday by the Read more
The sidelines of the ongoing UN climate talks have been a battle of words between Russia and Turkey as Presidents Putin and Erdogan continue to refute each other’s accusations over the downing of the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane last month. Read more
Russia has intensified its operations in Syria against rebel groups and one of its airstrikes missions is believed to have bombed a busy market place in Ariha, a town controlled by The Army of Conquest in the Idlib province, killing Read more