Unidentified gunmen killed eight policemen including an officer in an attack on a police vehicle in Helwan, south of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Saturday replaced his veteran oil minister and the central bank governor in a major reshuffle of senior positions a week after announcing big economic reforms. Salman also named new ministers to run the water, transport, commerce, social affairs,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Money-change offices stop selling Dollar for Syrian Pound in Latakia due to big decrease in the value of the Syrian pound. One dollar equaled 580 Syrian pounds on Thursday to go beyond 600 on Friday. Mutaniuos owner of the money exchange company said the money changers stopped...
The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was "not calling for war" with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict. Israel's military has traded blows with Hamas over the past few...
Iraqi security forces ramped up their presence across Baghdad on Friday, blocking most major roads and bridges to keep followers of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from reaching the government district they stormed a week earlier. A Sadr representative meanwhile called on supporters to...
Turkish warplanes attacked and destroyed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq early on Friday, including shelters and gun positions, military sources said. Turkey has been carrying out regular attacks on PKK camps and related targets in the mountainous region of...
Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday announced he was stepping down as ruling party chief and premier, in a shock resignation set to further boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's growing powers. Divisions between Davutoglu and Erdogan that had been rumoured for months...
By Abdul Mounem Halabi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The route between areas controlled by the Islamic State and those in North countryside of Aleppo under the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) control is still closed amid beat and defeat battles which have intensified when the FSA controlled...
Turkey's ruling party is set to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at an extraordinary congress in the coming weeks, officials said on Wednesday, signaling the end of his term as premier and plunging the country into political uncertainty. The decision, confirmed to Reuters by five AK...
Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 1-0 thanks to an own goal in the first-half on Wednesday to line up a Champions League final against city rival Atletico Madrid. The winner came after Gareth Bale’s superb strike from a tight angle in the 20th minute deflected off defender Fernando, giving...
(Eqtsad)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, stormed on Tuesday al-Khuyan village in Idlib countryside using tanks, a well-informed source said. They stormed the main money exchange market in the town to confiscate up to a million dollars that belonged to a currency trader...
Atletico Madrid made it through to their second Champions League final in three seasons on Tuesday after a 2-1 defeat away to Bayern Munich in Germany saw them win their semi-final on away goals. Bayern came into the second leg at the Allianz Arena trailing 1-0 from the first leg but Xabi...
Turkey has accepted in principle visa-free entry for tourists from the EU, a notice in the official gazette said Tuesday. However, the measure will only be implemented once the EU accepts visa-liberalization for Turkish nationals. The European Commission is due to make a recommendation on...
A new report by Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption, said that 50 million people across the Middle East and North Africa have paid bribes in 2015. The report, which was released Tuesday, is based on a survey in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt,...
The European Union warned Egypt on Monday over the recent storming of a labor union building in Cairo and the arrest of journalists. The statement comes after the country’s security forces raided the Egyptian Press Syndicate's offices on Sunday. Undercover police officers detained two...
Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shiite Muslim worshipers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said. The largest blast, which ISIS said it was behind, came from a parked car bomb in the Saydiya...
Egyptian police on Sunday raided the press syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the syndicate called an unprecedented crackdown. The interior ministry denied officers had stormed the press labor union...
(Eqtsad)- While the Syrian regime and Russia continue their unprecedented military escalation on opposition-held areas in Aleppo city, killing hundreds of civilians, the regime’s thug groups “Shabiha” raid and rob the industrial city of Aleppo. Regime supporters like manufacturer...
Two car bombs in the center of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday killed at least eight people and wounded about 16 others, two police source said. The first blast was near the provincial council building and the second one about 60 meters (yards) away at a bus station, a police...
Yemen's Houthi movement and its armed allies seized a military base north of the capital Sanaa on Sunday, dealing a setback to a shaky ceasefire and peace talks in Kuwait aimed at ending a year-long war. Unlike most of Yemen's soldiers, those at the Umaliqa base had refused to take sides in...
