Omar Suleiman

Hamas to maintain missile blitz up to Ashdod – until Israel’s February poll

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Israeli government leaders have misread the motives behind Hamas’two-week missile-rocket-mortar assault on Israel as jockeying for better terms when the six-month truce comes up for...

Egypt's Mubarak arrives on India visit, eyeing 'new horizons'

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Sunday arrived in India on a four-day visit, his first to the country in 25 years, that is expected to open "new horizons" of cooperation between the two co-founders of...

Report: Israel says not interested in worsening Gaza situation

JERUSALEM, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Thursday delivered a message to Hamas via Egypt saying that it has no intention of deteriorating the volatile situation along the border with the Gaza Strip, local daily Ha'aretz...

Egypt's Mubarak to visit India after 25 years

New Delhi (IANS): India is set to energise its political and economic ties with Egypt, a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), when President Hosni Mubarak comes here on a four-day state visit Sunday - his first to the...

Mubarak in first visit to south Sudan

JUBA: President Hosni Mubarak flew to the southern Sudanese capital Juba for the first time on Monday after discussing the Darfur crisis with President Omar Al-Beshir in Khartoum.Mubarak met with former southern rebel leader...

Egyptian mediator, Hamas delegation meet ahead of Palestinian unity dialogue

CAIRO, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman held talks on Tuesday with a visiting Hamas delegation ahead of an upcoming Palestinian national unity dialogue, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported. The...

Hamas official in Cairo to discuss Palestinian reconciliation

CAIRO, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Hamas delegation arrived in Egypt on Monday for discussions on an Egyptian plan to resolve the Palestinian political crisis, the MENA news agency reported. Hamas official Mahmud Zahar, a...

Daily Star Political News: Sleiman meets pope, extracts renewed statement of support from Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI discussed the plight of Christians in the Middle East in a meeting with President Michel Sleiman on Friday. The pope voiced his support for Lebanon's pluralistic identity and called for a "just and rapid"...

Egyptian War Games Cause For Concern in Israel, Lawmaker Says

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 By Julie Stahl Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Israel is upset over Egyptian military exercises in which the simulated “enemy” is Israel, and some are calling on the U.S. to reconsider its aid to Egypt...

Egypt veers around to most radical Palestinian anti-Israel stance

The relevant provision in the National Palestinian Accord drafted by Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman enshrines the Palestinians’ “legitimate right to resistance [euphemism for terror] for as long as “the...

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