During a visit to Cairo by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb rejected any form of insults to the Prophet Muhammad and vowed to sue France over the publication of controversial cartoons.

During a recent meeting, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan, discussed the handover of members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to Cairo.

The Turkestan Islamic Party, which is mainly made up of fighters from the Uighur minority in China and is one the largest non-Syrian fighting group in Idlib, has been removed from the US terrorist exclusion list.

Although some in Turkey see Russia as the real winner of the Russian-brokered truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the deal has elevated Turkey to a regional power in the south Caucasus. The losers of the six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan are beyond any doubt Armenia and Karabakh Armenians. Turkey …

Speaking during a visit to Northern Cyprus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would continue drilling in contested waters around Cyprus and the Greek islands “until a fair settlement” was reached.

The border town of Hamdayat, Sudan, is now home to thousands of refugees fleeing violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Among the estimated 8,000 who have arrived in recent days are the parents of seven-month-old twins born prematurely, lying on a bed in a makeshift shelter. The family was forced to …

The Sahara Press Service, a news agency belonging to Western Sahara’s pro-independence Polisario Front, announced last week that the group’s attacks on the Royal Moroccan Army had caused a “loss of lives and equipment”. Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front – Western Sahara’s pro-independence movement, has vowed to …

President Trump’s advisors have apparently dissuaded him from ordering a military strike, warning that it would escalate the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran “in the last weeks of Trump’s presidency”, according to a report by The New York Times.

The U.S. administration and Europe need to work jointly on addressing actions led by Turkey in the Middle East over the past few months, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told French daily newspaper Le Figaro.

China has spent the last two decades building defences for its nuclear armoury on land and at sea, ensuring that the military can hit back at a nuclear attack and deter others from launching one, according a former Chinese senior colonel.