Middle East

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag on Monday slammed at Egypt’s neighboring countries ruled by monarchs, claiming that these states supported the coup regime in order to have “puppet administration” that is easier to control than democracies.

Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi says it would be a mistake if the United States cut off military aid but declared Cairo could survive without it.

Swiping at the West, Saudi Arabia says the Kingdom, Arab and Islamic nations will step in to help and will cover the loss to Egypt if Western countries cut their financial aid.

Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi has officially proposed to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group legally, and the proposal is being studied.

Egypt is facing a war waged by " terrorist forces," a presidential spokesman said in reference to recent clashes between security men and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi across the country.

The Assad regime is making US-Israel frustrated. The Syrian army has regained full control over three villages in the western province of Latakia, following heavy fighting with foreign-backed Takfiri militants. While Hezbollah has come out with an all out war against the Takfiri extremists, the US government has boosted its political and military support to them.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman says Thursday’s deadly bombing in the southern suburb of Beirut bears the fingerprints of the Israeli regime.

Hundreds of Morsi supporters have stormed a government building in Giza and set it on fire as part of their "Friday of anger" protest.

Egypt prosecutors have ordered the extension of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s detention for 30 days.

Egyptian vice president, Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, has announced his resignation in a letter to the interim president.

Palestinians are not hopeful on reaching a permanent peace deal that will end a decades-old conflict because of Israel's refusal to commit itself to stopping its illegal settlement building and recognizing the principle of the two-state solution based on 1967 borders, in addition to a 20-year-old fruitless negotiation.

The early removal of Saudi Prince Fahd bin Abdullah bin Mohammad Al Saud as deputy defense minister and the appointment of Prince Salman bin Sultan bin Abdel-Aziz to the post was due to two mistakes, according to a detailed leaked information.