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Saudi Arabia has offered Egyptian parliamentarians who voted in favor of the transfer of the Red Sea Islands to the Kingdom Mecca visas, London-based Qatari The New Arab reported. The gesture comes one month after the Parliament churned the Administrative Read more
Iran’s Intelligence ministry has stated that it has killed all the five assailants who stormed the Parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The death toll of the two attacks has risen to Read more
Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Wednesday in what appeared in coordinated attacks the Iranian parliament in central Teheran and the shrine of founder of the Islamic Republic Ruhollah Khomeini, reports say. An unconfirmed number of assailants attacked Wednesday morning the Read more
King Mohammed VI has discharged Abdelilah Benkirane, the leader of the Party for Justice and Development, winner of the parliamentary elections held last October, from the mission to form a government, and decided to appoint another member of the PJD Read more
The Tunisian parliament Tuesday greenlighted the creation of a commission tasked to probe into the networks sending Tunisians to terrorist groups in hotbed conflict zones. A heated debate on the return of Tunisian foreign fighters from Libya, Syria and Iraq Read more
King Mohammed VI has called on Moroccan administrations and institutions to streamline their services, to simplify procedures and to make sure that they are always accessible and available to the citizens. In a speech he made Friday on the occasion Read more
The stand-off between the Parliament and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi eased on Monday following the approval of all the ministers he picked up with the exception of the nominee for the trade department. The government is however under pressure after Read more
The Iranian parliament has adopted the implementation bill of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) commonly referred to as the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1. The approval raises hope that the country will actually cooperate on its Read more
The Moroccan Parliament’s new session that was officially opened on Friday does have a busy schedule as it will have to address many challenges and enact draft laws on highly sensitive and important issues, as outlined by King Mohammed VI Read more
The Turkish parliament has renewed the engagement of the military against terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria for another year as the current approval will expire on 2 October. The parliament is on summer recess but an extraordinary session was Read more