Category: 2. Middle East

Moroccan Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit discussed ways to enhance bilateral security cooperation on Monday with his French counterpart, Bruno Retailleau. A statement from Morocco’s Interior Ministry reported by the official Maghreb Arabe Press (MAP) said that the two ministers held talks in the capital, Rabat, on the sidelines of the Retailleau’s open-ended visit to the Kingdom, which began yesterday.

During the meeting, the two men discussed issues of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “an enemy that poses a direct threat” to the occupation state’s security, Anadolu reported former army chief Dan Halutz saying yesterday.

“An enemy that poses a direct threat to Israel’s security, and his name is Benjamin Netanyahu,” Halutz told Israel’s Channel 12.

“The enemy should be subdued or imprisoned, not killed,” he added.

Netanyahu’s Likud Party denounced Halutz’s comments, calling…

Israeli media reported on Monday evening that an investigation is taking place into a sensitive “security case” related to “an incident that occurred during the war on Gaza.” This investigation is being conducted under a gag order, preventing the publication of any additional details about the nature of the incident or its background.

According to brief press reports, the parties involved in the investigation include Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara,…

As Sudan’s devastating civil war enters its third year, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) called on Tuesday for urgent and coordinated global action to address what it described as “one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”

More than 11.3 million people are currently displaced within Sudan, including 8.6 million uprooted since the conflict erupted in April 2023, according to the IOM. Another 3.9 million have fled to…

The Syrian ambassador to Moscow has been reported to have requested asylum in Russia, TASS quoted a source on Monday as saying. The Russian news agency did not provide any details about the request said to have been submitted by Bashar Jaafari, who was appointed ambassador to Russia in 2022, after serving for 15 years as Syria’s permanent representative to the UN.

According to Reuters, Al-Jaafari, 69, could not be contacted, and the Syrian Embassy in Moscow did…

Ras Hankorab Beach, a pristine spot on southern Egypt’s Red Sea coast with crystal clear waters and flat white sands, is the jewel of Egypt’s Wadi Al-Gemal National Park, home to one of the country’s last untouched marine ecosystems.

Today, the beach, a 90-minute drive from Marsa Alam international airport, and a four-hour drive from the huge, fast-growing resort of Hurghada, is closed off by a wooden fence, Reuters has reported. Campaigners are battling to…

Disarming the resistance movements in occupied Palestine and handing over their weapons to the “Zionist enemy” signals “complete surrender” and gives the “green light for the extermination of the Palestinian people,” a senior member of Islamic Jihad has said.

Ihsan Ataya told Al-Resalah Net that even if this were to happen, it would not mean an end to the brutal aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza. The member of the movement’s Political…

It is impossible for Israel to achieve its declared war goals in Gaza without making radical changes to address the severe shortage of soldiers, and the failure to recruit Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, Chief of Staff of the occupation army, Eyal Zamir, has said.

“Under the current force configuration, which reflects a significant shortage of manpower in the army, it will be extremely difficult to achieve a significant portion of the goals set by the…

Prominent Islamic scholars in Pakistan have called on Muslim-majority countries and their governments to fight against Israel to prevent its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, calling it an obligatory duty.

At the National Palestine Conference in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Thursday last week, Islamic scholars spoke of the obligation on Muslim countries and their militaries to defend the Palestinians against Israel’s occupation forces. Chief amongst them…

Iran insists on engaging in indirect talks with the United States due to Washington’s “contradictory policies”, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

Ministry spokesperson, Ismail Baqaei, also explained that “the venue of the next round of negotiations will probably be somewhere other than Oman …  the format and framework of the talks will remain unchanged.”

“Direct talks with the US will be neither fruitful nor acceptable to Iran,” he…