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Egypt Today The Egyptian Public Prosecution held an international conference between 7 and 9 November on combating cross-border crimes on the African and Arab scales issued the ‘Cairo Declaration 2021’ on Tuesday. The declaration aims to combat terrorism, human trafficking, illegal migration, migrant smuggling, artefacts smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and cybercrimes …

Ahram Online Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry affirmed, “Egypt’s commitment to supporting the efforts of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS through adopting a multidimensional counter-terrorism approach”, at the GCDI Coalition conference in Rome on Monday. The ministerial meeting of the 83-member coalition was co-chaired by the US Secretary …

Ahram Online The United States plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late on Sunday. Aid groups and diplomats say it threatens peace talks and complicate efforts to combat the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The decision to blacklist the Iran-aligned …

Egypt Independent The Muslim Council of Elders, an independent body based in UAE capital Abu Dhabi, held an emergency meeting on Monday, presided over by the Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb. The meeting discussed suing the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, over the offensive cartoon depictions of the Prophet …

Attempts at forcible regime change in Syria should never have happened. It is time to reintegrate Damascus into the Arab fold. Hussein Haridy A decade ago, in the midst of unprecedented tumultuous uprisings across the Arab world, some Syrian political forces, mainly the Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria, rose …

Egypt Today Terrorist Hisham Ashmawi was executed on Wednesday for terrorism related crimes. The former special forces officer who later became a militant was convicted in many terror attacks. He was captured in Libya late in 2018 by forces of the Libyan National Army. Ashmawy was involved in the assassination of …

Ahram Online  “The United States has no plans to pull out militarily from Iraq”, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Pentagon reporters on Monday; following reports by Reuters and other media of a U.S. military letter about a withdrawal. “There’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq,” Esper said. When asked …

Egypt Today  “Egypt condemns the terrorist attacks that targeted civilians and military personnel in northern Burkina Faso over the past days, causing deaths of many citizens mostly women”, a foreign ministry statement in Cairo said. The ministry described the incident as “one of the bloodiest attacks the African country has …

Ahram Online  “A dozen of humanitarian organisations suspended their operations in war-torn southern Yemen following a string of targeted attacks”, the U.N. said late Monday. “Unknown assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at three aid organisations in the southwestern province of Dhale over the weekend”, according to the U.N. Humanitarian Office in …

Ahram Online  Turkey’s interior minister said his country would send back Islamic State group members to their countries of origin. Suleyman Soylu said Monday that members of the extremist group held by Turkey would be sent back regardless of countries revoking their citizenship. Soylu said Saturday that “we are not …