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White House said to have finalized Middle East peace plan
The Trump administration’s proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan has been completed, and the US president has been briefed on its contents, senior administration officials told Fox News on Tuesday. A senior negotiator swi ...
Poland’s warning from history ahead of Middle East conference
The governments of Poland and the US will host a conference in Warsaw to address issues related to the Middle East on Wednesday and Thursday. The hosts expect representatives from at least 70 countries to attend, according to the website Polandin.com. It will be a massive gathering and perhaps an opportunity for some serious breakthroughs in the struggle to bring peace to the region. ...
U.S. Actions in Middle East Can Spark Israel-Lebanon Conflict, Russian Envoy Warns
U.S. campaign against Iran and Hezbollah making region even more volatile, Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin charges. ...
Merkel: Syria top priority for German intelligence
Syria will continue to be one of the key issues for Germany’s intelligence service BND, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. ...
Palestinian chief negotiator Erekat says will not attend Warsaw conference
Palestinian officials will not attend next week's US conference hosted by Poland, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday after a US official said they had been invited."Regarding statements that we have been invited, we can say that only today there was some contact from the Polish side," Erekat said on Twitter. "Our position remains clear: We are not going to attend this conference and reiterate that we have not mandated anyone to talk on behalf of Palestine." ...
Pompeo Scheduled to Visit Hungary For Meetings, Poland For Middle East Conference
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Hungary next week to meet with leaders of the government of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a growing number of protests on the streets against his right-wing policies. ...
Egypt secretly backs Gaddafi’s son in Libya elections
Egypt is reported to have led covert efforts to support Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in the upcoming presidential elections in Libya slated for later this year. ...
U.S. Supports "Dictators, Butchers And Extremists" In Middle East, Says Iran
The United States supports "dictators, butchers and extremists" in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post Wednesday in a response to US President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech. Tensions have ramped up between Iran and the United States since Trump pulled out of a multilateral nuclear deal last May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic. ...
US calls on countries to take Daesh prisoners from Syria
The US State Department on Monday called on countries to take in foreign fighters captured by America’s Kurdish allies in Syria, two days ahead of a meeting in Washington of dozens of coalition partners fighting Daesh to discuss the way forward in Syria, Reuters reports. ...
Arab League calls on EU to recognise State of Palestine
The Arab League has called on European countries to recognise the State of Palestine with-in the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. ...
Senate adds rebuke of Trump’s Syria policy to Middle East bill
The Senate voted on Monday to include rebuking President Trump’s Syria policy in a foreign policy bill set to pass the chamber later this week. ...
US forces return to Baghdad
Iraqis in the capital Baghdad said US army forces have been walking around the city accompanied by the Iraqi army, Al-Khaleej Online reported. ...
UN envoy to Middle East arrives in Gaza
UN envoy to the Middle East Nikolay Mladenov on Friday arrived in the Gaza Strip following the arrival of a delegation of senior Egyptian officials who had entered the enclave on Thursday to discuss ways to implement the understandings reached between Israel and Hamas as well as to ensure this weekend's "March of Return" protests are restrained. ...
North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
President Trump, to meet in late February with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a second attempt at ridding the dictatorship of nuclear weapons, maintains he is making historical progress and North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat to the U.S. Yet, earlier this week America’s top intelligence official, Dan Coats, rebutted that view. In a congressional hearing, Coats said North Korea wouldn’t completely give up nuclear weapons because its leaders view them as “critical to regime survival.” ...
Egypt’s Sisi approves establishment of Russia industrial zone
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday issued a presidential decree approving the establishment and operation of a Russian industrial zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, local media reported. ...
Iraq backs Syria’s return to Arab League
Iraq supports restoring Syria’s membership to the Arab League, the country’s foreign minister, Mohamed Al-Hakim, said yesterday. ...
Utah National Guard soldiers returning from Middle East
About 100 Utah Army National Guard soldiers are returning home following a deployment to the Middle East. ...
UK condemns Israel settlers’ killing of Palestinian in West Bank
Minister of State for the Middle East Alistair Burt yesterday condemned a settler attack which left a Palestinian killed in the occupied West Bank. ...
Syria: Turkey must pull troops to revive historic security pact
Syria said on Saturday it was ready to revive a landmark security deal with Turkey that normalised ties for two decades before the 2011 conflict if Ankara pulled its troops out of the war-torn country and stopped backing rebels, according to a Reuters report. ...
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