Aya Ezz French President Emmanuel Macron asked his country’s Islamists on Nov. 20 to recognize the Principles of the French Republic. His plea fell within a nationwide crackdown on har... Read more

Ali Rajab Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is launching a new crackdown against Kurdish opposition figures, accusing them of joining terrorist organizations, including the Kurdistan Pe... Read more

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia and Turkey of promoting anti-France sentiment in Africa, in an interview published Friday where he sought to defend his vision for the role of the fo... Read more

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry rejected a statement released by the French Foreign Ministry on the arrest of the administrative manager of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights group (... Read more

More than 60 prisoners broke out of a Lebanese jail on Saturday and five of them were killed when their car hit a tree while under pursuit, security sources and the state news agency said. T... Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey and Russia of fanning the flames against France in Africa, in a Jeune Afrique interview published on Friday. “We must not be naïve on this sub... Read more

On November 4, France announced that it would ban the Turkish ultranationalist group known as the Grey Wolves. This decision came following violent demonstrations in Lyon on October 30 when... Read more

The Turkey-backed Syrian National Army’s (SNA) ranks may include some four percent child soldiers, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Foundation for Political, Economic and S... Read more

The deteriorating relationship between Turkey and its European allies risks undermining the ability of NATO to make collective decisions, analyst Antoine Got said on Thursday. Got said NATO’... Read more

As Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh prepare to hand some of the territory to Azerbaijan, as per a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia earlier in November, they fear for the fate of the numer... Read more

Ali Ragab   Indonesia launched a preemptive strike against terrorist groups in the central Sulawesi region, killing two members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) in a clash on Tues... Read more

Mustafa Kamel   The Libyan crisis seemed close to being resolved following the decision of the Tunisian Forum and the agreement of the two parties to the conflict on a preliminary roadm... Read more

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi   In the previous issues of the series “Sultan’s fall”, we discussed how the policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have led to the collapse of the cou... Read more