Ethiopia said Wednesday it would not be deterred from impounding water at its Nile mega-dam, despite a persistent impasse with downstream countries worried about their water supply. The Gran... Read more

An Iranian freighter suffered minor damage in an “explosion” in the Red Sea, the foreign ministry said Wednesday, after US media reported the vessel had been hit by Israel. The b... Read more

Amira Sherif The French authorities have arrested five women in the southern commune of Beziers, one of whom is suspected of planning violent acts, according to AFP. It is noteworthy that Fr... Read more

Nahla Abdel Moneim ISIS’s ability to extend its influence on the eastern coast of Africa represents a new threat to the commercial ports and maritime navigation in the region, which increase... Read more

Aya Ezz The legitimate government in Yemen has recently unveiled links between the Iran-backed Houthi militia, on one hand, and the local branches of al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups. The... Read more

Islam Mohamed The full list of potential presidential candidates in Iran becomes clearer day after day, especially after a number of politicians and former army commanders came out to announ... Read more

China’s foreign minister cautioned Japan against teaming up with the US to counter China, as Japan speaks up more on human rights in Xinjiang ahead of a US-Japan summit next week. Chinese Fo... Read more

A record 27.3 million people in Democratic Republic of Congo, or about one-third of its population, are suffering from acute hunger, largely because of conflict and the economic impact of th... Read more

China is holding naval drills involving an aircraft carrier battlegroup near Taiwan it says are aimed at safeguarding Chinese sovereignty, an apparent reference to Beijing’s claim to the sel... Read more

A meeting between European Union Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will test Erdoğan’s commitment to improving ties with the EU, Agence Franc... Read more

Somalia’s leaders have failed to agree on the main agenda for a crucial electoral meeting, reflecting the unattended fissures between them. Publicly, they promised to try again on Tues... Read more

Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program stepped up a gear Tuesday as Iran and the five world powers still in the accord were meeting in Vienna wh... Read more

Talks gathering Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Addis Ababa’s contested dam on the Nile were being extended on Tuesday after Sudan objected to the terms of a draft communique, a Congolese... Read more

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwest Syria’s Idlib province, sought to stress in a recent PBS interview that his group doesn’t pose a threat to the U... Read more

A video interview with former Iranian MP Mahmoud Sadeghi revived talks about the Iranian authorities’ crackdown on the popular protests that swept the county in 2019 over the hike of petrol... Read more