August, 2014

• 27 August

  US to provide military aid to Tunisia

  The United States will give Tunisia $60m worth of military aid to help it fight Islamist militants who are threatening the country’s nascent democracy, a senior American official said on Tuesday. Speaking after talks with Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, General David Rodriguez, the head of US Africa Command, said some …

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• 27 August

  Pakistani PM says it will not resign

  Confrontation between Pakistan government and the opposition escalated on Wednesday with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rejecting demands for his resignation and Imran Khan calling off the dialogue with his regime until he quits.

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• 26 August

  Ukraine President calls early elections

  Poroshenko dissolves parliament and points to October 26 for early parliamentary elections. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dissolved the parliament and announced snap parliamentary elections on October 26.

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• 26 August

  Egypt and Tunisia stop most of flights to Libya

  Tunisia and Egypt’s Cairo airport halted most flights to and from Libya on Thursday for security reasons, officials said, days after the Libyan government said unidentified war planes had attacked positions of armed groups in

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• 26 August

  Syria says is willing to work with UN to combat IS

  he Syrian government said Monday it was ready to work with United Nations-backed groups to fight Islamic State militants, after the Tabqa airbase on the Iraq-Syria border was seized. The statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem warned, though, that any airstrike against IS on Syrian territory “should be done in coordination with the …

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• 26 August

  Davutoglu named as Turkey’s new PM

  The 55-year old Davutoglu has been Turkey’s Foreign Minsiter for the last 4-years, and has been one of Erdogan’s staunchest allies. He’s also been credited as being the architect of Turkey’s much more proactive foreign policy the past few years.

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• 26 August

  Egypt says army did not carry out operation in Libya

  Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi denied on Sunday 24/8/2014 that the Egyptian Armed Forces had carried out any military operation inside the Libyan lands. At a meeting with editors-in-chief of Egyptian newspapers and the Middle East News Agency, Sisi refuted reports circulated by the Doha-based Aljazeera channel in this …

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• 26 August

  ISIL a regional issue, US general says

  The U.S. military could move against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria once its militants are determined to have become a direct threat to the U.S. homeland or Europe, but not before, U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey has said. Right now, the insurgent group is still …

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• 26 August

  India and Russia hold joint air exercises

   India and Russia on Monday started their first joint air exercise in Russia to boost cooperation between their air forces, said the Indian Air Force ( IAF). “Ex Avia Indra-2014 commenced today at Astrakhan region, near the Caspian Sea in Russia. The exercises will continue for 10 days and would …

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• 26 August

  Pakistan protesters given ultimatum to clear the streets

  Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the supporters of Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri to clear the Constitution Avenue within 24 hours so that the movement of judges and officials is not hampered.

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