Ties between Algeria and Kenya were boosted after the latter opened an Embassy there with Moi Lemoshira as Ambassador Extra-Ordinary and Plenipotentia...

Turkey: Missile defense systems from China will not be used with NATO
Turkey’s defense minister Ismet Yilmaz has maintained that the country has not sidelined plans to buy a new missile defense system from China despite ...

Turkey: Presidents isolate me because they envy me, Erdoğan
“I don’t care about being alone in the eyes of the world. What matters is how the people view me. We saw [how people see him] during the preside...

Distinction to the Man at the center of the French-Moroccan Crisis
France announced it will make of Abdellatif Hammouchi, the head of the Moroccan territorial security department, known by its French acronym DGST, Off...

Israel: All self-defense options are possible against Iran, Minister Steinitz
Intelligence Affairs and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told reporters that “we never limited Israel’s right of self-defense because ...

Egypt court grants bail to Al Jazeera journalists with £21,000
Egyptian court has granted bail to the detained Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy on the 12th February less than a fortnight afte...

Palestine to open embassy in Sweden immediately
Palestine will be opening an embassy in Stockholm after Sweden became the first western European country to recognize its statehood in October last ye...

Egypt: Sisi speaks to Gulf leaders after airing of alleged recorded tape
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi spoke to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assure them of his goodwill...

Iran: Kerry and Zaref agree that talks could be useless
Nuclear talks with Iran could come to an end after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave h...

Syria: Army of Islam shells Damascus, government responds with airstrikes
Shells fired by the Army of Islam militants into the Syrian capital Damascus have killed at least 5 people and there are threats that more will follow...