Eurasia

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.

Armed Forces Spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohamad Ali asserted that the army has succeeded in the elimination of the hotbeds of the criminal gangs in Sinai, pointing out that the military operations in the peninsula aim to eradicate extremism and terrorism.

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

Protesters threw stones at officials from Mali’s newly elected government during a weekend visit to the main northern rebel stronghold, but the reconciliation minister said on Monday that efforts to heal the country’s deep social rifts were on track.

Egypt’s education authorities have recalled and destroyed thousands of textbooks glorifying the ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood group, sources said.

The British Ministry of Defense said it sent a regiment to Mali for a six-month tour to support training operations for the nation’s military. The Ministry of Defense sent soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Rifles to Mali to support a training mission led by the European Union.

Head of the team for negotiations with the EU Tanja Miščević and Branko Ružić, the minister in charge of EU integration, are in Brussels on Tuesday. They are holding a meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.

UN chemical investigators on Monday confirmed the use of sarin nerve agent in an August 21 poison gas attack outside the Syrian capital in a long-awaited report that the United States, Britain and France said proved government forces were responsible. “This is the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons …

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 …