Category: 2. Middle East

Egypt welcomed on Tuesday US President Donald Trump’s call for reaching “a just agreement” on the dispute with Ethiopia on a dam project on the Nile River, Anadolu Agency reports.

Trump said on Monday that the US needs to work to resolve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), stressing the importance of Nile water for Egypt as a “very important source of income and life.”

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Trump’s comments “demonstrate the…

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, encouraged the EU on Tuesday to suspend an association agreement with Israel, citing the bloc’s legal obligation under international law.

As EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the status of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, among other matters, Albanese issued a series of statements on X, urging the bloc to act in line with rulings from international bodies.

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Turkiye condemned Israel’s military intervention in the recent developments in southern Syria, urging the attacks to be urgently halted, said the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

“We condemn Israel’s use of military force to intervene in the recent developments in the south of Syria and emphasize that these attacks must cease immediately,” said the ministry in a statement.

Maintaining stability and security in Syria primarily benefits the…

Thousands of Afghans who worked with the UK and their families were brought to Britain in a secret programme after a 2022 data breach put their lives at risk, the British government revealed on Tuesday.

Defence Minister John Healey unveiled the scheme to parliament after the UK High Court on Tuesday lifted a super-gag order banning any reports of the events.

In February 2022, a spreadsheet containing the names and details of almost 19,000 Afghans who had asked to be relocated to Britain was…

The Israeli army rounded up at least 35 Palestinians, including children, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, prisoners’ affairs groups said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

Children and former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted Nablus, Salfit, Qalqilya, Jenin, Tulkarem, Hebron and Bethlehem in the occupied territory, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.

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ANKARA — Emirati President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed will visit Turkey on Wednesday for talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as the two countries expand their diplomatic footprints in conflicts from Syria to the South Caucasus.

What happened: Burhanettin Duran, communications director for the Turkish presidency, announced Tuesday that the Emirati president will travel to Ankara for an official visit.

The two leaders “are expected to discuss steps to deepen the…

A German court has ruled that authorities illegally prevented a British-Palestinian surgeon from participating in a pro-Palestinian event in Berlin, local media reported on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

The Berlin Administrative Court ruled that immigration authorities had no legal grounds to prevent Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah from speaking at the event last April. Authorities had alleged that the doctor sympathized with Hamas and might commit a criminal offense during…

The Hind Rajab Foundation, a Brussels-based human rights and legal organisation, announced on Monday that it had filed a formal criminal complaint with the Portuguese judiciary against Israeli soldier Dani Adonya Adega, accusing him of killing four Palestinian civilians during the assault on Gaza.

According to the Foundation’s statement, Adega served as a sniper in the Israeli army’s 252nd division. At the beginning of this year, he posted an image on social…

European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib urged Israel to stop killing the people in Gaza, before the Foreign Affairs Council held on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

“My message to the Israeli authorities is very clear, put this agreement into action now. Stop killing the people,” Lahbib said, stressing that Israel is “far from” applying their agreement on allowing the resumption of humanitarian aid.

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Egypt has expressed strong opposition to Israeli plans to create a “tent city” for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the Rafah area, near the border with Egypt, Israeli media outlets reported.

According to Israel’s Channel 7, members of the Egyptian security delegation involved in current mediation efforts have firmly rejected the Israeli military deployment map that was recently presented by Defence Minister Israel Katz. They emphasised…