Egypt

Egypt's army said on Sept.8 it had launched a "major military operation" against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 29 jihadists and leaving two soldiers dead.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has been working with several countries to find a solution which would help Syrian migrants integrate into the workforce, while Turkey should not be left alone in resolving issues regarding the dramatic rise in the flow of Syrian migrants, the head of the organization has said in an exclusive interview with daily Hürriyet. 

An Egyptian court postponed Sept. 6 its verdicts in two lawsuits calling on the government to designate Turkey and Qatar as ?state sponsors of terrorism? until Sept. 28, according to a judicial source.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday it is early to speak about a possible participation of the country in military operations against the Islamic State (IS) group.

Bulgaria and Hungary are considering options to use Israeli border equipment to respond to migratory pressure from the Middle East and North Africa, Reuters has said.

So far studies have shown that Greek libidos are flagging as a result of the country’s economic crisis, however new research published in Thrillist has come to disprove the notion! Dr. Simon Hardy of the University of Worcester states that the downturn in the economy hasn’t affected the confidence level of Greeks at all in his study “The Greeks, Eroticism and Ourselves.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has little love lost for Egypt?s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who he sees as a dictator that ousted the country?s democratically elected president in a military coup, and went on to stage-manage an election to give himself the appearance of being a democratic leader. Erdo?an is right, of course, because that is exactly what el-Sisi did. 

Italian energy giant Eni on Aug. 30 announced the discovery of the "largest ever" offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean, in Egypt's territorial waters.

Egypt's much delayed legislative elections, the first since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted his Islamist predecessor and cracked down on the opposition, will be contested between October and December.
 

Italian oil and gas multinational ENI announced on Sunday the discovery of a massive natural gas field off Egypt, which the company described as the “largest find in the Mediterranean”.

The deep water deposit in the Zahr lot in the Shorouk bloc could hold up to 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, equivalent to 5.5 billion barrels of oil.