Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was traveling to Washington on Sunday for meetings this week with President Donald J. Trump and senior administration officials at a pivotal moment for the Middle East. Mr. Trump has made it clear that he wants the wars in the Middle East to end after the October 2023 Hamas-led…
Sick and wounded people left Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Saturday for the first time in nine months under a key provision of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. But officials in the Gaza Health Ministry said that only 50 of the thousands of ill and injured people in need…
Soon after Islamist rebels overthrew the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, a hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social media: “It’s your turn, dictator.” The message for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was unmistakable. But he hardly needed the warning. Since the ouster of Syria’s longtime dictator on Dec. 8, Egyptian leaders have watched…
New York City — At times, Armia Khalil felt like he was whittling his life away after he immigrated to New York from Egypt in 2006 with nothing but $400 in his pocket and a suitcase of sculpting tools. He had studied fine art in Egypt through the generosity of a cousin, and now he…
Italian judges on Friday again denied the government’s request to hold asylum seekers in Albania while their cases are being processed, dealing another major setback to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s anti-immigration policy. It was the third ruling against the policy since Ms. Meloni’s right-wing government began carrying out the plan in October, which has become…
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In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers. In Ukraine, residents on the frontline of the war with Russia may be going without firewood…
Cairo – January 29, 2025: Starting February 1, 2025, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will introduce technical measures aimed at blocking the activation of mobile phones that do not comply with internationally recognized standards, particularly those established by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). This initiative is part of the…
President Trump’s Middle East envoy is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu. The visit by the envoy, Steven Witkoff, was set to take place as Israeli and Hamas officials prepared for a new round of negotiations aimed at cementing the current cease-fire in…
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to uproot Gazans to Egypt and Jordan is a “hostile” move against the two US allies and aims to “liquidate the Palestinian cause”, Jordanian analysts told AFP. The US leader on Saturday floated an idea to “clean out” Gaza after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas…