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United States President Obama conceded he does not expect a peace accord between Palestinians and Israelis before the end of his tenure as US President but renewed his support to the two-state solution. “I am not that hopeful that it’s going to happen in the next nine months. It’s been 60 years; it’s not going […]
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday agreed that peace between Palestinians and Israelis can only be achieved if both parties agree to talk and accept the two-state solution. “Peace won’t come through UN Security Council resolutions but through direct negotiations between the parties. The best formula for achieving peace remains two states for two peoples in […]
Two explosions hit the Brussels airport Tuesday morning while another explosion struck the Maelbeek Metro station, near EU headquarters an hour later. The two terror attempts killed 34 people and injured scores of others. According to a provisional toll, the airport blasts killed 14 people and injured 81, while 20 people lost their life in […]
Two terrorists Monday opened fire at a hotel in the Malian capital, Bamako, where EU military instructors were lodging. The attack targeted Azalaïl Hotel Nord-Sud, located in a posh neighborhood of Bamako, near the US embassy and the UN headquarters in the Malia capital. The hotel is used by European Union multinational military training mission […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco renewed the pledge to make of the Sahara provinces an African economic hub and a bridge between Europe, the Maghreb and the Sahel region. In a message addressed to the 27th session of the Crans Montana Forum, convened for the second time in a row in the Southern Moroccan city […]
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has considered the march staged in Rabat last Sunday with the participation of over 3 million Moroccans, in response to his biased remarks on the Sahara issue, as a “lack of respect” towards him and towards the UN. Ban Ki-moon held a meeting Monday in New York with Morocco’s […]
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said reaching a peace deal with Palestine will first require the Arab World warming its ties with Israel at a time Arab countries insist that normalizing their relations with Tel Aviv would only take place when a solution is reached to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu was speaking at the event […]
The Hamas delegation that arrived in Cairo on Saturday held its second round of meetings with Egyptian security officials on Sunday in a bid to ease tensions between the two sides. The delegation’s visit takes place a week after Egypt accused Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood of cooperating in the assassination of Hisham Barakat, the […]
Following the Sunday attack in Ankara which killed more than 30 people, Turkey’s President vowed to defeat terrorists who are wreaking havoc on his country, become one of their targets because of instability in the region. After a briefing with his Interior Minister Efkan Ala, Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was in Istanbul condemned the attack […]
Hezbollah, a political party in Lebanon with a military wing, has been declared by the Arab League as a “terrorist group” although two of the organization’s 22members, Lebanon and Iraq, voiced reservations. The resolution was adopted by Arab Foreign Ministers following a similar move by the Gulf Cooperation Council on March 2. Explaining Lebanon’s reservations, […]