War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/24/2024 2:17:52 PM
US intelligence chief Bill Burns and his Israeli counterpart David Barnea left Qatar late Saturday following talks on a Gaza truce and prisoner-captive release deal, a source briefed on the talks told AFP.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/23/2024 4:35:46 PM
Officials from Egypt, Qatar, the US, and Israel are expected to meet in Paris on Friday to resume negotiations on a potential deal for a ceasefire and prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel, according to media reports.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/13/2024 11:12:00 PM
On the 130th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv faces growing international pressure to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza, as the Israeli army kills tens of Palestinian civilians in Rafah overnight and in dawn airstrikes amid its plans for a ground invasion that spells more deaths for 1.4 million Palestinian displaced in and around the city in the southmost of the strip.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/13/2024 8:24:34 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi received on Tuesday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William J. Burns and Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Cairo to discuss the latest developments in the Gaza Strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/13/2024 4:52:41 PM
China urged Israel on Tuesday to stop its military operation in the Gazan city of Rafah "as soon as possible", warning of a "serious humanitarian disaster" there if fighting did not stop.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/13/2024 1:44:13 PM
CIA Director William Burns was due in Cairo on Tuesday for a new round of talks on a Qatari-brokered ceasefire proposal that would temporarily halt fighting in exchange for Hamas freeing captives.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/10/2024 4:16:08 PM
CIA Director Bill Burns is expected to travel to Cairo on Tuesday to hold talks with Egyptian officials on current efforts to launch negotiations for a new Gaza ceasefire deal that would secure the release of the remaining captives in Gaza, read an Axios report on Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/27/2024 8:11:58 PM
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns will meet with Head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel and Head of Israel’s Mossad David Barnea in Europe in the coming days, according to multiple reports, to seek a truce agreement between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/18/2023 4:47:21 PM
CIA Director William Burns traveled to Warsaw on Monday to meet with Israeli and Qatari officials to restart discussions over the Israeli captives held by Palestinian groups in Gaza, including Hamas, US officials said, according to media reports from Washington and Tel Aviv.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/7/2023 8:25:34 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi received the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns on Tuesday to discuss the Israeli war on Gaza, according to a statement by the Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/2/2023 12:11:01 PM
Russia's war in Ukraine has had a "corrosive" effect on Russian President Vladimir Putin, CIA Director William Burns said Saturday, with discontent over the conflict creating a "once-in-a generation opportunity" for the spy agency.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/1/2023 1:19:20 PM
CIA Director William Burns recently travelled to Ukraine where he met with intelligence counterparts and President Volodymyr Zelensky, a US official confirmed to AFP Friday, with a US newspaper confirming the visit happened in June before the Wagner mutiny.
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Business
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Economy
6/7/2023 11:03:14 PM
CIAF Leasing has secured a $44 million financing facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to purchase three new aircrafts.
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Egypt
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Tourism
4/25/2023 5:07:00 PM
Cairo International Airport (CIA) witnessed on Monday the highest rates of air traffic operations and travel, and arrival traffic since the airport's establishment, reaching 612 flights and 82,000 passengers over the course of the day, the Civil Aviation Ministry announced on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/23/2023 8:30:08 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed with US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns in Cairo on Monday the ways to boost security and intelligence cooperation between the two countries.
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World
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Region
1/12/2023 9:39:05 PM
CIA chief William Burns has met Libya's interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based government said Thursday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/14/2022 6:42:56 PM
US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns was holding talks with his Russian counterpart Monday in Ankara to warn him about the consequences of using nuclear weapons, which Moscow has threatened to deploy in Ukraine.
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World Cup 2022
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News
10/27/2022 6:03:58 PM
A former CIA officer who spied on Qatar's rivals to help the tiny Arab country land this year's World Cup is now under FBI scrutiny and newly obtained documents show he offered clandestine services that went beyond soccer to try to influence U.S. policy, an Associated Press investigation found.
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Egypt
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Features
10/1/2022 2:18:00 PM
The unmistakable touch of Italy is still very much present in Alexandria, bearing witness to the thriving Italian community that once lived in Egypt’s coastal city.
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World
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Region
9/25/2022 9:59:33 AM
The CIA has revealed a model of Ayman al-Zawahri's safe house, used to brief President Joe Biden about the al-Qaida leader's whereabouts before the agency killed him in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
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