Egypt

The foreign ministers of Syria and Iraq met in Damascus on March 24 to discuss ways to tackle militant groups and Syria said it hoped Baghdad would help "break the siege" against it, Syrian state media said, ahead of an Arab summit.
   

Leaders from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a cooperation deal on March 23 over a giant Ethiopian hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the river Nile, in a bid to ease tensions over regional water supplies.

A three-man Greek foreign ministry delegation visited Tehran last week in order to lobby the Iranian government to purchase Greek … T-bills or a portion of the Greek debt, according to report in the Athens daily “Ta Nea” on Monday.

An Egyptian woman who says she had to dress as a man to get work has been hailed as an "exemplary working mother" by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
      
Sisa Abu Daooh, 65, showed up on Sunday at the presidential palace to receive an award from Sisi and a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, wearing a male robe and turban, a day after Egypt marked Mother's Day.
      

On March 18, 1915, British and French naval forces launched a campaign on Turkish positions in the Dardanelles. They failed. The date has been ingrained in my head since childhood. Every March 18, my grandfather Ömer Kemal, may God rest his soul, started the day by asking all of us the significance of the date.

Time flies! It?s already three months since the ?fourth sequel? appeared here, but it?s time for more headlines from the Istanbul press in the year 2023:

As part of the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and in collaboration with the office of the European Parliament in Greece, a press conference will be held on Friday March 20, 2015, at 13:00, at the IANOS bookstore (Aristotelous 7), to commemorate International Women's Day, which was celebrated on March 8.

By Yiannis Papadopoulos

It's a Wednesday afternoon when the white bus pulls up at Omonia Square in downtown Athens. First to step off are two policemen, followed by 30 passengers, most of whom soon disappear into the streets of the city. But one man stands on the sidewalk, hesitating.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has reacted strongly against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry?s comments about the eventuality of coming to terms with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end the civil war there.

BELGRADE - This year, Belgrade will for the first time join world metropolises in marking the Irish national holiday, St. Patrick's Day, by turning the lights green on the Ada Bridge on Tuesday.

Around 70 million people across the world celebrate the Irish national holiday, and the list of buildings going green includes Rome's Colloseum, Sydney's Opera House and Egypt's pyramids.