Al-Sisi heads the National Defence Council meeting on Sunday The posting of a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptians at the hands of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya prompted an immediate meeting of the National Defence Council to decide how to respond. It didn’t take long.On Monday Egyptian planes carried out air […]
Forces loyal to Yemen’s former president seized government build an armed Houthi Shia Yemeni stands guard outside the Republican Palace in Sanaa In another shocking development after the Houthi power grab in Yemen, the movement issued a constitutional declaration 6 February to dissolve parliament and form an interim national council of 551 members to elect […]
Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdullatif al-Zayani attends an extraordinary GCC meeting of foreign ministers, on February 14, 2015, in the Saudi capital Riyadh. AFP/Fayez Nureldine Riyadh has seen a flurry of diplomatic activity from the Gulf in the past few days amid talk of changes in Saudi foreign policy under King […]
The United States and Turkey have reached a tentative agreement to train and equip so-called moderate Syrian opposition fighters and expect to sign the pact soon, US and Turkish officials said on Tuesday with Ankara predicting a signing in days. The agreement comes ahead of talks on Wednesday in the Saudi capital Riyadh between military […]
Military chiefs from around the world will gather in the Saudi capital on Wednesday to assess the battle against Islamic State extremists, diplomatic sources told AFP. The two-day meeting, a followup to earlier talks, will gather “all the countries that are involved” in the United States-led fight against ISIS, including Gulf nations, one of the […]
Houthis will only bow to international pressure if massive and widespread popular protests rise up against them. The closure of foreign embassies in Sanaa during the past two weeks – including the embassies of key state players such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – has put the Houthis under […]