News from category Middle East
ANKARA (AFP)
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 196 people, including several former heads of service, over accusations they plotted a coup against the Islamist-rooted government, reports said on Monday.
According to the indictment cited by the Anatolia news …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
A suicide car bomber ploughed into a convoy carrying employees of a British company in northern Iraq on Monday, killing four of them and wounding five Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security officials said.
The suicide bomber …
CAIRO (AFP)
An Egyptian television presenter killed his wife after a domestic argument in which she accused him of having an affair, a police official said on Monday.
Ehab Salah, a news anchor for Egyptian state television, …
CAIRO (AFP)
An Egyptian television presenter killed his wife after a domestic argument in which she accused him of having an affair, a police official said on Monday.
Ehab Salah, a news anchor for Egyptian state television, …
ANKARA (AFP)
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 196 people, including several former heads of service, over accusations they plotted a coup against the Islamist-rooted government, reports said on Monday.
According to the indictment cited by the Anatolia news …
DAMASCUS (AFP)
Two figures at the centre of drawn-out efforts to form a new Iraqi government, former premier Iyad Allawi and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, met in Syria’s capital on Monday.
President Bashar al-Assad also held talks …
CAIRO (AFP)
An Egyptian television presenter killed his wife after a domestic argument in which she accused him of having an affair, a police official said on Monday.
Ehab Salah, a news anchor for Egyptian state television, …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
A suicide car bomber ploughed into a convoy carrying employees of a British company in northern Iraq on Monday, killing four of them and wounding five Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security officials said.
The suicide bomber …
DAMASCUS (AFP)
Two figures at the centre of drawn-out efforts to form a new Iraqi government, former premier Iyad Allawi and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, met in Syria’s capital on Monday.
President Bashar al-Assad also held talks …
CAIRO (AFP)
An Egyptian television presenter killed his wife after a domestic argument in which she accused him of having an affair, a police official said on Monday.
Ehab Salah, a news anchor for Egyptian state television, …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
A suicide car bomber ploughed into a convoy carrying employees of a British company in northern Iraq on Monday, killing four of them and wounding five Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security officials said.
The suicide bomber …
KHARTOUM (AFP)
Amnesty International on Monday accused Sudan of using arrests and torture to brutally suppress dissent, days after an international court filed charges of genocide against President Omar al-Bashir.
The London-based group in a report entitled …
ANKARA (AFP)
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 196 people, including several former heads of service, over accusations they plotted a coup against the Islamist-rooted government, reports said on Monday.
According to the indictment cited by the Anatolia news …
DAMASCUS (AFP)
Iraqi radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr visited Syria Saturday from his self-exile in Iran for talks with Syrian president about on Iraqi affairs.
Talks between Sadr, who lives in self-imposed exile in Iran, …
AMMAN (AFP)
The lawyer of Iraq’s jailed former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz said on Sunday his client has gone on trial on new charges related to “wasting public funds.”
“I have been contacted by the Iraqi …
TEHRAN (Agencies)
Iranian MPs on Sunday passed a bill obligating Tehran to continue 20-percent uranium enrichment, defying mounting Western pressure to halt such work, Fars news agency reported.
“The outlines of the bill were adopted by 171 …
