Region

Breaking news, latest headlines and analysis from Middle East region, East Mediterranean region, and Africa from the Daily News Egypt.

Latest Region News
A Bahraini Shiite protester sets tyres on fire during clashes with police in the village of Sitra, south of Manama, on 3 September AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
activist

Bahrain court upholds sentences for 20 opposition figures

Bahrain activists found guilty of “conspiring to overthrow the government, having contact…

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Yemeni air force plane AFP PHOTO
Al-Qaeda

Yemeni warplane kills civilians

Warplane was targeting militants who find safe haven in Yemen due to…

Nouran El-Behairy Nouran El-Behairy
Artists created images portraying the measuring used when entering police custody in solidarity with the arrested Tunisian artists Facebook
art

Tunisian artists face jail

Conservative crackdown continues in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Connor Molloy Connor Molloy
An oil worker tending to a supply pipeline in Iraqi Kurdistan AFP PHOTO
baghdad

Kurdish oil dispute: US advocates companies to cooperate with Baghdad

Baghdad threatens Kurds with budget cuts

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
The hand of a victim is seen during the funeral of civilians killed in an air strike by the Syrian army in an undisclosed location in the northern province of Aleppo on 3 September AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
Al-assad

Highest rates of death and displacement since the uprising in Syria began

Struggle intensifies with no end in sight

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah AFP Photo
attack

Nasrallah threatens US on behalf of Iran

Warnings over a possible Israeli strike against Hezbollah’s major ally

Rana Muhammad Taha Rana Muhammad Taha
An image from Al-Jazeera television broadcast on 21 August shows three Western hostages taken captive in northern Mali almost nine months ago by Ansar Dine, just one of several Islamist groups including MUJAO and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb AFP PHOTO / AL-JAZEERA / HO
Al-Qaeda

Mali rebels kill Algerian diplomat

As violence continues in Mali, MUJAO kills Taher Touati

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt
Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip (right) chairs a meeting members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City on 2 September AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
Egypt

Hamas announces government reshuffle

Seven new ministers to be appointed by Hamas government

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
An Israeli moving company employee carries cardboard for boxes as he walks past a caravan of evacuated settlers in the Migron outpost in the occupied West Bank on 2 September AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON
evacuation

Israel completes evacuation of unauthorized settlement

Migron’s 50 families smoothly evacuated

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Jordanian police forces keep watch during an anti-government rally in Amman on 1 September, held to protest against proposed rises in gasoline prices AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
budget

Jordan goes back on fuel price hikes

Proposed 10% rise in fuel prices stooped by King Abdullah II

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam