Egypt - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news …
WEB2 days ago · Egypt’s remittances reach $2.7 billion in boost to foreign reserves. Egypt’s liquidity crisis has been alleviated by recent investment from the United Arab Emirates and help from the International Monetary Fund, though …
Turkey - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news …
WEB2 days ago · From mountaintops to underground: PKK responds to Turkey’s drones. Serdar Yektas, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Workers Party's armed wing, told Al-Monitor that Turkey’s use of its home-manufactured drones has drastically changed the nature of the conflict between them. By Amberin Zaman. In London, reporting on geopolitics, …
Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news …
WEB2 days ago · Serdar Yektas, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Workers Party's armed wing, told Al-Monitor that Turkey’s use of its home-manufactured drones has drastically changed the nature of the conflict between them. By Amberin Zaman. In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture.
Iraq - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news …
WEB2 days ago · Turkey says PKK attack kills Turkish soldier in northern Iraq. The attack comes at a time when Turkey has intensified its offensive against the militant group in an effort to clear the PKK from the Iraq-Turkey border areas and establish up to a 40-kilometer-deep (24 miles) security zone in northern Iraq. Turkey.
Jordan - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news …
WEB4 days ago · Biden and Jordanian king speak as US scrambles to avert regional war. The call between the two leaders came as the Middle East braces for Iran's expected retaliation against Israel following last week's back-to-back assassinations. Jordan.
Iran lawmakers approve new president's cabinet - Al-Monitor
WEB3 days ago · Iran's conservative-dominated parliament on Wednesday approved reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian's proposed cabinet, which includes one woman and a foreign minister open to dialogue with the West.Lawmakers voted in favour of all 19 ministers chosen by Pezeshkian -- who was inaugurated in July after his predecessor Ebrahim …
Blinken leaves Mideast with Gaza truce still out of reach
WEB3 days ago · Top US diplomat Antony Blinken headed home on Wednesday after failing to secure a Gaza ceasefire, warning both Israel and Hamas his plan may be the last chance to avert a broader war.The US secretary of state appealed to Hamas to urgently accept a US-backed truce proposal, while also entering into a public spat with Israel over its future …
'Cruel torture': Drug convicts await execution in Saudi
WEB3 days ago · The two Egyptian inmates ate a routine final dinner in a prison in northern Saudi Arabia, not knowing they would be put to death for drug crimes the next morning. Their abrupt killing this month extended a recent spree of drug-related executions in Saudi Arabia, after officials ended a moratorium on the death penalty for such crimes less than …
Israel intensifies Lebanon strikes, kills Hezbollah commander, hits ...
WEB5 days ago · Israel said it killed a prominent Hezbollah member on Monday evening, following strikes against weapons warehouse for the Iran-backed group deep inside Lebanon.. The Israeli government said in a post on X that its fighter jets struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
Israel-Hezbollah tension expands to Golan Heights amid rocket …
WEB3 days ago · Israel and Hezbollah exchanged cross-border strikes on Wednesday, killing at least one person in eastern Lebanon and leaving another injured in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.. Following Israeli strikes overnight on ammunition depots deep in eastern Lebanon, in the Baalbek district some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the border, …