Director of the media division at Egypt’s Interior Ministry, Brig. Gen. Ayman Helmy, informed Asharq Al-Awsat that 121 police officers were killed, and 1,082 injured, as part of operations to restore stability across the country following the nation-wide Muslim Brotherhood protests in response to former president Mohamed Mursi’s ouster. He added that …

After the release of a UN report, Turkey claimed to be certain that the chemical weapons attack in Damascus on Aug. 21 was committed by the Syrian regime, both in a written statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tuesday’s statements from Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. Saying …

The shooting down of a Syrian helicopter by Turkish fighter jets on Monday after it crossed into Turkish airspace will not affect the deal that Washington and Moscow arrived at in Geneva on Syria’s chemical weapons, a senior Turkish diplomat said. When the news of the downing

Turkey’s Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has again slammed the government’s desire to engage in a military operation against Syria, calling for peace in the region.

Freedom of opinion and expression constitute sacred principles, which should not be challenged”, a state published, Monday by the Presidency of the Republic reads, specifying that the press offenses, despite their negative impacts, are less dangerous than violation of freedom in society.”

Senior member of the 50-strong committee tasked with amending the 2012 constitution Mohamed Abdel-Aziz said the political system in the new constitution will be balanced between the president and the parliament.

Two years after the fall of the authoritarian regime, Libya faces a number of challenges in ensuring that its democratic transition proceeds peacefully, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, noting that recent months have been marked by pronounced political disagreements, a disruption of the country’s oil exports, …

Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, has asked Britain to help remove Gadaffi-era weapons from the country, after warnings from the UN that arms are being smuggled to the civil war in neighbouring Syria. During talks with Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street, Zeidan said that

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Monday that his country supports any move that would completely strip Syria of its stockpile of chemical weapons. However, he stressed that the international community should not act as if nothing serious is happening in Syria, even if Damascus had not used chemical weapons against …

Turkey will provide the U.N. Security Council and fellow members of the NATO military alliance with details of the circumstances of its shooting down on Monday of a Syrian helicopter, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said. Turkish warplanes shot down the Syrian Mi-17 helicopter after it violated Turkish airspace following repeated warnings, Deputy Prime Minister …