Muhamad Yehia  Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East. Its bad times are likely to get worse once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House with his policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran. Facing difficulties at …

Muhamad Yejhia Over the weekend, nearly 1,500 demonstrators took to the streets of Paris in a powerful show of solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), demanding an end to the violence ravaging the eastern part of the country. The march, organised by the group ‘Urgence Pona Mboka,’ was …

Muhamad Yehia An Italian navy ship on Saturday took migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome. It was the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country. A coast guard ship took 43 migrants from …

Muhamad Yehia Powerful Arab nations on Saturday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan. Trump proposed the idea last month, stating that he would urge the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to accommodate Gaza’s now largely displaced population. He suggested that …

Muhamad Yehia Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, travelling to Saudi Arabia. Some say the move could be seen as a shift away from Iran as its main regional ally. Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaida, landed in Riyadh alongside his government’s foreign minister, Asaad …

Muhamad Yehia Thousands of people gathered to celebrate one year since Burkina Faso’s withdrawal from ECOWAS in Ouagadougou and across the country. The official launching of the Alliance of Sahel States was marked in Ouagadougou by a meeting attended by Prime Minister Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo and other personalities. Proposer Simporé, …

Muhamad Yehia Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stated on Sunday that Egypt has a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that does not involve displacing Palestinians from their land. “We have a definitive plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that ensures no citizen is expelled from their homeland. …

Muhamad Yehia Hamas freed three hostages in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The six-week phase one truce calls for the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 prisoners, as well as the return of Palestinians …

Muhamad Yehia BAGHDAD  — Iraq’s National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein ’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition. Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr was a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric and …

Muhamad Yehia BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press. The U.S. and Iraq announced an agreement last year to wind down the military …