Libyan Army enters downtown al-Asabaa Arab Gulf country aims to achieve political influence in region by arming allies in field, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has spent tens of billions of dollars each year on failed military interventions and arms imports instead of strengthening regional peace and stability. Since 2014, the UAE has been pushing

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (L) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran on 25 February 2019 [Yousef Alhelou/Twitter] Iran has spent between $20-$30 billion in its Syria campaign in order to keep President Bashar Al-Assad in power, an Iranian lawmaker has revealed, insisting that Syria will one day have to repay its debts

UK National Health Service employee Anni Adams shows a smartphone displaying the new NHS app to trace contacts with people potentially infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) being trialled on Isle of Wight, Britain, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Isla Binnie LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s system for tracing those with the novel coronavirus was under fire on

Somalia has officially opened the first round of bidding for oil exploration, even as critics charged there was insufficient law to manage the programme. The country’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said the programme, known as the Licensing Round Pre-Announcement Offshore will target seven blocks with the ‘most potential’ for hydrocarbons. The blocks are

Photo: Credit Reuters Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines (THY) announced late Wednesday it was extending the cancellation of its flights amid the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic flights will be grounded until June 4 and international flights until June 10, the carrier said in a statement. The company, which carried more than 74 million passengers last

Photo: Credit (AP) Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has voiced the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to delay the maritime case between Somalia and Kenya. The court announced yesterday that the case has been adjourned until March 2021. Hassan, who held a press conference in Mogadishu, has opposed this, and that

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands next to his wife Sara as he waves to supporters following the announcement of exit polls in Israel’s election at his Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term, Israeli

Libya’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha on Wednesday blamed the current crisis in his country on the interference of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Libyan affairs and its support to putschist forces.”The crisis in Libya would not have happened had you stopped your malicious interference in our internal affairs, your support to putschists, dispatch

The two main candidates in the poll are the ruling CNDD-FDD party’s Evariste Ndayishimiye, right, and Agathon Rwasa of the National Liberation Forces (FNL) party [Reuters/AP] A crucial election has begun in the East African nation of Burundi, where President Pierre Nkurunziza is stepping aside after a divisive 15-year rule but will remain “paramount leader”

A letter sent by the court to both parties and seen by BBC states that that the hearing scheduled for early June is now is delayed to 15 March 2021 due to the exceptional circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic. Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid told the BBC last week that his country objected