Egyptians against Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi take aim at a proposal to boost the number of terms a president can serve.6 Feb 2019 Egyptian opposition parties have formed a coalition against proposed changes to the constitution that would allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to stay in office beyond the end of his current term in 2022. Egypt‘s parliament has given its preliminary approval of the changes… Read more »
US president said this week American forces should stay at a military base in Iraq so Washington can ‘watch Iran’.6 Feb 2019 Iraq’s most senior Shia religious scholar on Wednesday joined a chorus of criticism aimed at President Donald Trump who said US troops should stay in the country to keep an eye on neighbouring Iran. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said Iraq aspires to… Read more »
The President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, has recently stated that in order for The United States and Iran to re-open negotiations they would have to repent for the things they have done. Since Trump has become president he has reintroduced sanctions sanctions on Iran after withdrawing from a historic nuclear deal. Trump said that the deal was not permanent and… Read more »
Comments come after US president this week called Iran the ‘number one terrorist nation in the world’. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that negotiations with the United Stateswould be possible if it “repents” and ends hostile policies towards his country. Relations between Washington and Tehran have hit rock bottom since US President Donald Trump entered office and reimposed… Read more »
Turkey is aiming to form safe zones in northern Syria so that Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey could return to their home country, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Speaking in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan also said nearly 300,000 Syrians had already returned to areas controlled by Turkish-backed rebels in northern Syria, adding that he expected millions of Syrian nationals to… Read more »
The Muslim Brotherhood has called for the establishment of a united Egyptian opposition group abroad to help regain control of the country after a military coup in July 2013 put Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in power. In a statement marking the eighth anniversary of the January 25, 2011 revolution, the outlawed group said the purpose of a unified opposition would be… Read more »
Shut out of the global financial system, Iran is inching closer to a workaround to US sanctions with the possible unveiling of its first state-backed cryptocurrency in the near future. The virtual currency is anticipated to be announced at the annual two-day Electronic Banking and Payment Systems conference, which kicks off on January 29 in the capital, Tehran. The theme… Read more »
The Middle East like Sub-Saharan Africa is a shatter belt. This was very clearly shown when the first article I read was about the UAE providing weapons to Yemen. This inability for there to be stability in the region is apparent through almost every article in this collection of posts. From a president who was elected due to overthrowing a… Read more »
A British hostage who was captured by the Islamic State group more than six years ago is thought to still be alive, the UK’s security minister has said. John Cantlie, a photojournalist from Hampshire, was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. He escaped, but was recaptured again several months later. He was seen in an IS video published in March 2016. BBC security… Read more »
An Egyptian parliamentary committee has given initial approval to a proposal to amend the constitution in a way that would extend President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s time in office, state media say. Mr Sisi is due to stand down in 2022, when his second four-year term ends. But a proposal from the majority bloc in parliament would lengthen future presidential terms… Read more »