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August 25, 2014

Top Syrian cleric visits Egypt

The Grand Mufti of Damascus, Sheikh Abdul Fattah Al Bezzem arrived on Sunday in Egypt where he is scheduled to meet with Egyptian officials and religious figures most notably...

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August 25, 2014

Islamic State seize military air base in Syria

Islamic State, IS fighters seized control of the Tabqa military air base in Raqqa province, in northeast Syria after the regime forces withdrew from it, the Syrian Observatory for...

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August 25, 2014

Iran reports increase in foreign commercial ships arriving in its ports

Iran has witnessed a steady increase in foreign commercial ships arriving in its ports after Western countries eased sanctions on Tehran, Anadolu news agency reported. Iran’s news agency, IRNA...

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August 25, 2014

Ghannouchi on official visit to Algeria

The leader of Tunisia’s Islamic Renaissance Party, Ennahdah, Rachid Ghannouchi, started an official visit on Sunday to neighbouring Algeria, at the invitation of President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Anadolu news agency...

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August 25, 2014

Iraq: Iyad Allawi hands 14 demands to form government

The Iraqi National Movement (INM), led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (a Shiite secularist politician) handed prime minister-designate Haidar Abadi a paper comprising 14 demands related to the...

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August 25, 2014

Sudan and Turkey discuss coordination of regional and international positions

Sudan and Turkey have expressed their keenness to strengthen economic ties and coordinate positions in regional and international forums. This development follows a meeting held in Sudan’s capital Khartoum...

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August 25, 2014

Qatar secures release of abducted American journalist in Syria

Qatari mediation efforts helped to secure the release of American journalist, Peter Theo Curtis, who was kidnapped in Syria by al-Qaeda linked Jabhat Al-Nusra two years ago, Anadolu news...

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August 24, 2014

Egyptian student Karima al-Seirfy released from prison

Karima al-Seirfy, 18-year-old university student and daughter of president Mohamed Morsi’s aide Amin al-Seirfy, has been released on Saturday evening four days after the prosecution’s decision to release her....

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August 24, 2014

Egypt's ex-army chief of staff to contest parliamentary elections in alliance with Sufi orders

Former Egyptian chief of staff General Sami Anan has reportedly decided to return to politics with a new political party despite his earlier assertions that he would withdraw from...

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August 24, 2014

Morsi lawyers request testimony of military leaders in 'jailbreak' case

The defence panel of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in the case dubbed as “the Wadi al-Natroun Jailbreak Trial” has requested the testimony of a number of military leaders...

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