Eurasia

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Thursday welcomed the adoption of the UNSC resolution for the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons. Rasmussen called for an international conference to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis. “This is a huge step forward,” he told his monthly press conference at NATO …

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed from captivity, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry. Zeidan was kidnapped earlier on Thursday by armed rebels in Tripoli. Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelazis confirmed Zeidan’s release.

A group of former rebels in Libya said Thursday it had “arrested” Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, after he was seized by gunmen from a Tripoli hotel in a dawn raid. The Operations Cell of Revolutionaries, which in principle reports to the defence and interior ministries, said on Facebook it had seized Zeidan “on the prosecutor’s …

Representatives of Greek Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus will visit Athens and Ankara in a couple of weeks, the first time in nearly 50 years. So that, psychological barriers will be crossed, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said. Citing that negotiators of theGreek and Turkish Cypriots had a preparatory meeting on Oct. 9, leaders of Greek Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus will …

Turkey and Ukraine announced on Wednesday they have agreed in principle to exempt the citizens of each other from the visa procedures for 60 days. The announcement was made in a joint press conference here by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych here.

U.S. President Barack Obama has praised U.S. forces for capturing a terror suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi and says the longtime fugitive will be brought to justice. Obama said Abu Anas, seized Saturday in Libya, helped plan and execute the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East …

A three-day visit to Morocco by Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan wrapped up on Tuesday (October 8th) with plans for new partnerships in health, education, training, security and other sectors. Officials attending the bilateral talks hailed the “high level” of collaboration in efforts to prevent illegal immigration and all forms …

Egypt’s interim president, Adli Mansour, granted Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the authority for full mobilization starting the beginning of November of this year. The presidency said that a bill drafted in 1960 regarding the army’s full mobilization states

An Egyptian court has set a date for the trial of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, and some of the group’s leaders in relation to the Ittihadya violence that happened in December 2012. The trial will begin on November 4 before a Cairo criminal …

The United States said Oct. 9 it had suspended the delivery of major military hardware and cash assistance to Egypt in the wave of a bloody crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood. Washington has frozen “the delivery of certain large-scale military systems and cash assistance to the government pending credible progress …