25 Sep 2019; MEMO: Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister has accused Iraq of instigating a debate on the current border crisis between the two countries, the New Khaleej reported on Tuesday. Khalid Al-Jarallah said that Kuwait is seeking to demarcate the maritime border with Iraq because his government believes that the Iraqi description of the Khor Abdullah waterway as a full border agreement is not accurate.
25 Sep 2019; MEMO: Reports in the Israeli media yesterday suggested that Blue and White chair Benny Gantz is open to a coalition government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while Likud negotiators work on sweetening such a deal.
25 Sep 2019; MEMO: Egyptian security forces arrested professor of political science at Cairo University Hazem Hosni this morning.
25 Sep 2019; MEMO: A military court in Algeria on Wednesday jailed for 15 years two former intelligence chiefs, the brother of a former president and the leader of a political party for “conspiring against the army”, private television channels said, reports Reuters.
The court in Blida, south of Algiers, the capital, also handed a 20-year jail sentence to a former defence minister in absentia, Ennahar TV said.
25 Sep 2019; MEMO: Israeli forces detained Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami of the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, according to an official statement, reports Anadolu Agency.
In a statement, the Jerusalem Affairs Ministry said Israeli forces raided the minister’s home and searched it before taking him into custody.
There was no comment from the Israeli military on the arrest.
25 Sep 2019; MEMO: Some 964 Egyptians have been arrested during protests calling for the country’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to step down which began on Friday.
MOGADISHU, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 20 Somali government soldiers were killed and 18 others were wounded when al-Shabaab raided a military base south of Mogadishu.
Military sources said militants detonated a suicide car bomb at the El-Salin military base followed by an infantry attack in the early hours of Sunday.
The militants briefly took over the base, a regional official said.
A spokesman for Somali special forces said the militants attacked the base “in large numbers.”
BAGHDAD, Sept 25 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, will visit Saudi Arabia today (Wednesday), to discuss with Saudi leaders bilateral relations and regional tensions, Abdul Mahdi’s media office said.
Abdul Mahdi’s visit will last several hours, during which he will meet with Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed, the office said in a statement.
The two sides will discuss bilateral relations, regional situations and efforts to ease the tensions in the Middle East, it said.
BAGHDAD, Sept 25 (NNN-NINA) – The U.S. embassy in Iraq issued an alert for its citizens, over potential attacks in major Iraqi cities, after an overnight attack near the embassy compound in Baghdad.
“The U.S. embassy warned all U.S. citizens of heightened tensions in the region, and the need to remain vigilant,” the embassy said, referring to the tensions between Washington and Tehran in the Gulf.
Before midnight Monday, two mortar rounds landed in the perimeter of the U.S. embassy in central Baghdad.
BEIRUT (AP) — As dozens of heads of state convene for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, the lingering conflict in Syria is taking a back seat while tensions in the Persian Gulf and global trade wars take center stage.
Now in its ninth year, many Syrians fear the unresolved war has become a footnote in a long list of world crises, with weary leaders resigned to live with President Bashar Assad ruling over a wrecked and divided country for the foreseeable future.
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