BEIRUT: Lebanon’s General Directorate of Internal Security Forces announced on Monday that they had arrested two Syrian nationals, aged 48 and 52, on suspicion of people smuggling. The suspects had been accused of smuggling people of various nationalities from Libya … read more
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi confirmed on Monday that he will stand for a third term in office in a presidential election scheduled for December. El-Sisi, a former army chief who has been president since 2014, had been widely … read more
ANKARA, Turkiye: Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkiye’s defense ministry announced. Some 20 targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ … read more
BAGHDAD: A fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on “gross negligence” and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said. … read more
CAIRO: Egypt has spent millions of dollars on new urban communities over the past nine years, its housing minister said on Sunday. Speaking at the “Story of a Homeland” conference in the New Administrative Capital, Housing and Urban Communities Minister … read more