Salah Abdel-Haq appointed acting guide of Brotherhood: Mounir front adheres to his will, appointment came unanimously

U.S. Announces Nearly $2 Billion Arms Package Amid Visit by Ukraine’s Zelensky

The Biden administration announced a nearly $2 billion arms package for Ukraine that for the first time includes a Patriot air-defense system to help Kyiv protect itself against the barrage of ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban All Education for Girls

The Taliban banned girls from attending elementary school, effectively instituting a total ban on the education of girls and women and dealing one of the most dramatic blows yet to women’s freedoms ...

Biden and Congress Still Haven’t Made Inflation Central in Budget Matters

Inflation is the economy’s number one problem. The Federal Reserve understands this and has adapted accordingly. Congress and President Biden still haven’t. To be sure, the massive omnibus spending ...

Satan II missile soon ready for deployment, says Putin

Russia plans to boost its army to 1.5 million troops and is preparing to deploy a new intercontinental ballistic missile, President Putin has said. In a speech to defence chiefs in Moscow, Putin ...

Zelensky echoes Churchill as he tells Congress: We will never surrender

President Zelensky drew comparisons to Winston Churchill last night when he gave a powerful speech to Congress in Washington, saying that American support was crucial to the defence of his country. ...

Explosion in northern Iraq kills two soldiers, injures three

Two soldiers were killed and three were injured in an explosion in northern Iraq, Iraqi state news said Thursday. The soldiers were traveling in an army vehicle a day earlier in the Makhmour ...

U.S. Commandos Capture Six ISIS Officials in Raids in Syria

For the second time in just over a week, U.S. Special Operations forces carried out helicopter raids against the Islamic State in eastern Syria, capturing six operatives including a senior official ...

Motives behind increased Turkish presence in Libya

There has been intensified Turkish action in Libya in recent days. Four Turkish Air Force aircraft landed at al-Watiya Air Base in western Tripoli a few days ago. The arrival of the four aircraft ...

Drones of death: International fears of terrorists possessing drones

Drones are relatively cheap compared to conventional aircraft, in addition to the ease of access to the technology used in their manufacture, which raises international concerns about the ...

‘Chilling contempt for lives’: Families left to suffer in uncertainty over Syria deaths

Ahmad Hassan al-Dghiem was a 39-year-old day labourer from the Syrian town of Jarjanaz, a rural agricultural hamlet of around 10,000 or so people in the country’s hilly northwest. He was on his way ...

‘It is a worrying time in Afghanistan, but weavers are still weaving’

When he first travelled to Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, James Wilthew was a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. The work involved providing security for reconstruction projects. “We got to ...

Zelensky to meet Biden in US in first foreign trip since Ukraine war began

President Zelensky will arrive in Washington this afternoon for a summit with President Biden in what will be his first foreign visit since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian president ...

Russia plans to boost military links with Iran, says UK defence secretary

Russia plans to deepen its military cooperation with Iran in return for Shahed drones that have been used to bomb Ukraine’s cities and energy network since September, according to Britain’s defence ...

Taliban bar women from university education in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately in the latest edict cracking down on women’s rights and freedoms. Despite initially ...