AP | JOSEPH KRAUSS: Religious authorities cancelled or limited weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encouraged the faithful to pray for those afflicted by the global pandemic. Iran, which is mired in the worst outbreak in the region, meanwhile announced another 85 deaths,...

Tasnim President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for 30 years, was on Thursday overthrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections. In an address on state television, Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said Bashir, 75, was under arrest in a safe place and a military council ...

Press TV - A Sudanese government source says President Omar al-Bashir has stepped down and that consultations are underway to form a transitional council. Adel Mahjoub Hussein, the Sudanese minister of production and economic resources in North Darfur, told the Dubai-based al-Hadath TV on Thursday that, There are consultations to form a military ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A top story today was the beginning of a fresh round of Syria talks in the Swiss city of Geneva, attended by the foreign ...

Al-Monitor - On Dec. 16, Sudans President Omar al-Bashir became the first Arab leader to visit Syria since the civil war began seven years ago. From Syrian President Bashar al-Assad greeting Bashir at the airport to Bashirs comments in support of Syria retaking its important place in the region, the meeting was heavily publicized by Syrias state-run ...

The war in Yemen has given Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a skilled political operator who has ruled Sudan for a quarter-century, an opportunity to show wealthy Sunni powers that he can be an asset against Iranian influence -- if the price is right. Bashir has maintained power amid region wide unrest in part by navigating a shifting patchwork of alliances ...

November 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese vice-president, Al-Haj Adam Youssef, has affirmed that his country doesnt build relations with Iran at the expense of its ties with the Arab Gulf states and denied reports of tensions in relations between Khartoum and Riyadh. Adam said in an interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat daily newspaper ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Khartoum summoned Saudi charge d'affaires to the foreign ministry after the Saudi Kingdom prevented a Tehran-bound liner carrying Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir from flying over the country. The monarchy has refused to allow the plane with the Sudanese president on board enter the Saudi airspace to attend the swearing-in ceremony ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority says the reason that the Sudanese president's plane was barred from crossing Saudi airspace en route to Iran earlier this weekend was because it did not ask for routine permission. It said in a statement Tuesday that the plane's pilot declared he was carrying President Omar al-Bashir ...

KHARTOUM, May 8 (Reuters) - Sudan has granted an Iranian firm a licence to explore for gold in the African country, state-linked media said, a sign of strengthening business ties between Khartoum and Tehran. Sudan state media said in February after a meeting of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmedinejad that Khartoum hoped ...

In Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a special envoy of the Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir to discuss an expansion of ties between the countries on Sunday. The Iranian Fars News Agency reported that the two states discussed strengthening their bilateral relations and 'abundant commonalities'. "We can survive these present difficult ...

(Reuters) - Sudan expects more investment fromIranas both countries want to develop their friendship, state news agency SUNA said on Wednesday after President Omar Hassan al-Bashir met Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. SUNA gave no details but the meeting on the sidelines of an Islamic summit in Cairo is likely to annoySaudi Arabiaand other Gulf ...