Egyptians will cast their votes in the 2024 Presidential Elections on December 10, 11, and 12, 2023 domestically, while eligible voters living abroad will vote on December 1, 2, and 3, 2023, announced Head of the Egyptian National Election Authority (NEA) Walid Hamza in a press conference on Monday.
On 11 September, just as Storm Daniel was beginning to wreak havoc on
Libyan shores, Elseddik Haftar was in Paris soft-launching a presidential bid.
Aleppo
province.
Turkish forces and their proxies fire heavy
artillery shells on the vicinity of Abin and Aqiba Villages in Shirawa district
in Afrin countryside north western of Aleppo within areas of regime and Kurdish
forces in northern Aleppo countryside, amid flight of Turkish scout drones over
the region.
Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler stressed the need for the Bashar
Al-Assad regime to meet several requirements before Turkish forces withdraw from
northern Syria.
HPG's Media Center issued a statement today, regarding its operations
against the Turkish occupation army and the occupation attacks.
“Martyr Dalil area, west of Zap:
Sept 23,
2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Hangzhou. China
Chinese
President Xi Jinping and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday jointly
announced the establishment of a China-Syria strategic partnership.
Amid
continuous talk on the near normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel
report revealed that officials from the entity and Saudi Arabia met in secret
recently to discuss the normalization agreement.
Washington DC.
The U.S. Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the appointment of Gen. Charles Q.
Brown Jr. (U.S, Air Force) as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, America’s
top military officer.
Brown is
the son and grandson of Army veterans: his grandfather served in World War II
and his father in Vietnam.
The Syrian
civil war has been ongoing for over 12 years. During this time, the population
has suffered greatly from violence and oppression by warring parties, as well
as economic hardship and diseases due to the gradual deterioration of the
economy and essential services.
By Megan Ferrando
The US government has included Egypt in its Human Trafficking Report for employing child soldiers, particularly in the North Sinai region.
Sept 19, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
The US government has for the first time included Egypt in its list of countries employing child soldiers, focusing primarily on the North Sinai region where Egypt has been battling an insurgency for about a decade.
The United
States Military reported moved 95 tankers’ worth of Syrian crude oil out of the
country for sale abroad from September 9-10, with two separate convoys of 40
and 55 tankers transported through Iraq from the Al Jazeera Oil Fields using
the Mahmoudiya border crossing.
Sept 18, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Erbil. Kurdistan
Region
Two
unidentified drones on Monday after 4:00 p.m. struck Arbat airfield in
Sulaimani province, killing seven people and injuring four others, according to
Kurdistan 24 reporter Hawzhin Jamal.
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The Biden administration has allowed much of US foreign military aid to
Egypt to go ahead, saying the country was vital for US national security
interests, despite what critics have said about widespread human rights
abuses, Reuters reports.
Erbil, Kurdistan
Region
Two members
of an all-woman force in the northern Syrian city of Manbij were killed by a
Turkish drone strike on Friday, a Kurdish-led military council said.
Turkish
security forces "neutralized" seven PKK/YPG terrorists in
northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Cairo.
Egypt’s population has increased by 25 million people in the past 10 years,
despite efforts by the government to curb population growth, the country’s
planning minister said Tuesday.
Despite catching most observers off guard, the decision to include India in
trilateral meetings between Cyprus, Greece and Israel has long been in the
pipeline, the foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
The president of the Moroccan House of Councillors – the country's senate –
will arrive this week for a historic state visit to Israel.
On Sunday,
the Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, addressed concerns about the
situation in Kirkuk, Iraq, calling on the Iraqi government to take action
regarding the presence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an organization
deemed adversarial by Ankara.
Erbil,
Kurdistan Region.
One person
is dead after a suspected Turkish drone targeted a vehicle on the outskirts of
Hasaka in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday, a local war monitor
reported.