Islamic-World

Tension is rising on Turkey’s border with Iraq amid speculation Ankara may be about to launch an incursion to tackle Kurdish rebels.

SANAA — Lunchtime in Sanaa. Offices begin to close, the crowds disappear from the ancient souqs, restaurants hurry their last customers out: The qat is here.

To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid,” the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern …

Mogadishu 26, April.07 ( Sh.M.Network) The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed today an Egyptian Government donation of over 250 tons of food commodities to war-torn Sudan and Somalia.

CAIRO, May 28 (RIA Novosti) – Italian archeologists have found in Egypt what may be the world’s oldest indoor bowling alley, Egyptian media said Monday.

 CAIRO, Egypt —  A top Fatah official said Sunday that the moderate Palestinian group would not meet with the Hamas militant faction while in Cairo to discuss the security situation in the Palestinian territories with Egyptian officials.

(RTTNews) – Egypt has strongly condemned a Sunday meeting of four US members of Congress and the head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s bloc in Parliament, accusing the US of adopting double standards while meeting with the banned Egyptian group but at the same time refusing to meet with the militant …

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police have detained three Muslim Brotherhood candidates to the upper house of parliament as they campaigned in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia, Brotherhood and security sources said on Monday.

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A U.N. peacekeeper was killed in Darfur, the first U.N. casualty since the world body began sending small reinforcements to a beleaguered African Union force deployed in the violent western Sudan region, the AU and the United Nations said Saturday.

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt approved on Thursday the formation of a new liberal political party headed by a former member of President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).