The encounter was brief and played down by U.S. officials, but showed growing contact between the two countries. American and Iranian officials met today on the sidelines of a high-level diplomatic summit in Egypt. While the encounter was brief and played down by U.S. officials, it showed growing contact between the two countries.
A two-day international conference convened to stabilise war-torn Iraq has ended in Egypt with mixed views among diplomats.
A two-day day international conference convened to stabilise war-torn Iraq has ended in Egypt with mixed views among diplomats.
Source: Human Rights Watch (Cairo, May 3, 2007) – The sentencing of Al-Jazeera journalist Huwaida Taha Mitwalli to six months in prison for her reporting on torture in Egypt makes a mockery of World Press Freedom Day, Human ...
Foreign ministers from five of the six nations involved in talks on North Korea's nuclear programme plan to meet in Egypt this week on the sidelines of an international conference on Iraq, officials said Thursday.
Iran and the United States met at an expert level on the sidelines of an international conference in Egypt on Friday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said.
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt), May 4, The final statement of a conference on Iraq today urged all participants to support the transfer of security responsibilities in the country from US-led to Iraqi forces.
CAIRO -- It was one step forward for women's rights in Egypt last month when 31 female judges were appointed to the bench by Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council, and two steps back for feminists when the country's internationally famous feminist writer, activist, and medical doctor, Nawal Al Saadawi's latest book, God Resigns in the Summit Meeting, was withdrawn from publication for allegedly ...
Construction of a three-billion-dollar causeway linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt will begin next week.
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broke more than two years' worth of diplomatic ice with Syria on Thursday, holding talks here with a top Syrian official in what amounts to a major diplomatic course change by the Bush administration.