Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil Hilary Clinton’s campaign for the White House suffered a severe blow after an official report into her use of emails as secretary of State concluded that she breached government rules. The findings from the State Department revealed along with it Clinton’s reluctance to use an official email account, the conclusions ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil A Sydney man was charged Thursday morning for allegedly planning a terrorist attack in Australia. Farhad Said, 24, was arrested outside his Bankstown home around 8:20am and charged over his alleged involvement in pots to attack the Garden Island Naval Base and Australian Federal Police headquarters. His lawyer, Muhammad Tehseldar, ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil The Egyptian authorities expelled a French journalist this week further highlighting the crackdown on press freedoms by the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian and French officials said on Wednesday. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault, that the journalist, Rémy Pigaglio, was blocked for ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil Wednesday marked the 16th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. The country commemorated the day known as Resistance and Liberation Day with Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who viewed the Israeli withdrawal from most of South Lebanon on May 25, 2000 as a victory for all Lebanese no matter ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil US-backed Syrian fighters and Iraqi forces pressed twin assaults against the Islamic State (IS) group on Wednesday, in two of the most important offensives yet against the militant group. The twin offensives marked some of the most serious ground efforts against Islamic State since the militant group declared its self-styled ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG As you can see, the migrants boat rescue captured on the camera of the coast of Libya. The Italian navy released this photo at the moment of the boat capsizing while hundreds of migrants rushed into one side to prevent the boat from submerging, but they all ended up into the sea. At least five migrants ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG Haibatullah Akhundada is the top commander for terrorist group in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban have confirmed the death of their leader and appointed his successor Haibatullah Akhundada . He served as a Chief judge , In fact, he was a deputy for the previous leader who was killed in a drone strike last Saturday by U.S.forces. ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in an airstrike Saturday in Pakistan, the White House confirmed Monday. A U.S. official said the drone strike occurred around 6 a.m. ET Saturday in a remote area of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal. President Barack Obama said during his visit to Vietnam ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Two teams of suicide attackers launched coordinated assaults on Monday deep inside Syrian government territory, killing scores of people in a relatively secure region where support for President Bashar al-Assad runs high. Amaq, a news agency that is associated with the Islamic State, said jihadists from the militant group had carried out the attacks to strike ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The Israeli military authorities on Monday allowed building supplies to start flowing into Gaza again, lifting a suspension that had blocked work for more than a month on thousands of houses destroyed in the 2014 summer war. Israel had suspended deliveries on April 4 after accusing Emad al-Baz, an official in Gaza’s economic ministry, of diverting ...