A shoving match erupted inside Turkey’s parliament Wednesday over the country’s continued involvement in northwest Syria. Video from inside the chambers showed dozens of legislators from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party and the main opposition party throwing punches at each other while others tried to pry the brawling lawmakers apart. ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed in her office at the Ministry Director of the Beirut-based Regional Bureau of the UNESCO for Education in the Arab States Hamad Bin Saif al-Hammami, on Wednesday. Discussions reportedly touched on the bilateral relations between the Information Ministry and ... Read More »
Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi discussed with his Jordanian counterpart, Atef Tarawneh, Monday, the unification of Arab positions on the Palestinian issue, and bilateral cooperation between the two countries in all fields. “Jordan is of great importance as it represents the first line of defence of the central cause of ... Read More »
International efforts to broker a Libyan ceasefire have been plunged further into chaos by the unexpected resignation of Ghassan Salamé, the UN special envoy to the country. Salamé’s move, amid UN-led talks in Geneva, is an admission that he has been unable to persuade major powers to use their leverage ... Read More »
Lebanese Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmi asked for assistance from Arab countries Sunday, during the 37th conference of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers held in Tunis. “I am extending my hand to my brothers who have never given up on Lebanon,” Fahmi said during his speech at the conference. The ... Read More »
Move comes after expiry of unilateral deadline Pyongyang set Washington to offer it fresh concessions on sanctions relief North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles, the South’s military said, weeks after Pyongyang declared its moratorium on long-range missile tests over. The two devices were over the sea from the ... Read More »
EU border agency Frontex on high alert as Turkish president keeps crossings open Migrants trying to reach Europe have clashed violently with Greek riot police as Turkey claimed more than 76,000 people were now heading for the EU as a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to open ... Read More »
US condemns attack which Turkish official says killed 33 of its soldiers, in Ankara’s worst day of the conflict so far Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, in a dramatic escalation in the battle for control of the country’s last opposition ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday welcomed a delegation from the Unitarian Druze Community who relayed to her the felicitations of community president, Sheikh Naiim Hassan, upon her assumption of the Information Ministry portfolio. The delegation wished Abdel Samad success in her new task at the ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday said in a joint “Coronavirus awareness” press conference at the Ministry of Education that the media played an unignorable and substantial role in raising awareness. “The golden and wise rule that is best used amid the prevailing circumstances is: No ... Read More »
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