Egypt

Arab leaders have agreed to form a joint military force, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on March 29 on the second day of a summit.
 
"The Arab leaders had decided to agree on the principle of a joint Arab military force," Sisi said in a speech at the summit held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies have carried out a third night of airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, to stem advances by Houthi rebels, Euronews reported on Sunday.

In his opening address at an Arab summit in Egypt, Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi directly blamed Iran for "destroying" Yemen and creating "a regional crisis."

Saudi King Salman has vowed that the military intervention in Yemen will not stop until the country is stable and safe Saudi King Salman has vowed that the military intervention in Yemen will not stop until the country is stable and safe.

The king made the remark on March 28 at the opening session of an Arab summit held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Saudi Arabia evacuated dozens of its own and foreign diplomats from the city of Aden as it continued the airstrikes on Yemen.

Operation Decisive Storm, which is conducted by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition is aimed at halting the progress of Houthi rebels.

Along with the unrest in Syria and Libya, there are two other big ongoing regional armed conflicts in the Middle East.

The Yemen crisis has brought along various contradictions which are more than difficult to grasp and muddle through.

?Eat a big mouthful, but don?t make big promises,? a Turkish saying goes. Our ancestors were right, weren?t they?

What were we saying yesterday about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? We were saying he was ?a dictator, coup stager and murderer.? We said we would not sit at his table.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has accused Iran of further aggravating the conflict between Sunniis and Shiites in Yemen.

He insisted that Tehran should immediately retreat its forces from Yemen in order to alleviate the situation, as reported by the Bulgarian National Radio.

In an interview with France 24 on March 26, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said Turkey supports the Saudi-led mission to rout Shiite rebels in Yemen and said ground troops will be needed to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq.

Tourism ministry officials from Egypt and Bulgaria and both countries' ambassadors are due to hold a conference on promoting bilateral tourism cooperation from Wednesday to Friday in Egypt's capital Cairo.