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Syria Calls Border Security with Jordan a Shared Responsibility

Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
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Syria Calls Border Security with Jordan a Shared Responsibility

Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Saturday that border security with Jordan is a shared responsibility and a high-level meeting is expected next month to discuss arrangements. 

Speaking at a security forum in Bahrain, he said there are no “skirmishes” between the countries. The comments came after Jordanian strikes in Syria raised tensions between the neighbors. 

Jordanian border guards stopped a group of 14 armed individuals attempting to cross ‌into ‌northern Jordan from ‌Syria, ⁠the armed forces ⁠said in a statement on Saturday.  

The group ⁠tried to ‌infiltrate on ‌Friday under ‌heavy ‌fire and direct engagement, causing numerous casualties ‌among the armed group, while ⁠the remaining ⁠members fled back into Syria, the armed forces said. 

Jordan said that the strikes last week killed 20 militants with the ISIS extremist group, but acknowledged that civilians also had been killed.  

Syrian authorities reported seven people killed, most of them women and children. 

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Egypt Minibus Crash Outside Cairo Kills 10, Injures 24

13 November 2022, Egypt: A bus travels on a road between Cairo and Alexandria. (dpa)
13 November 2022, Egypt: A bus travels on a road between Cairo and Alexandria. (dpa)
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Egypt Minibus Crash Outside Cairo Kills 10, Injures 24

13 November 2022, Egypt: A bus travels on a road between Cairo and Alexandria. (dpa)
13 November 2022, Egypt: A bus travels on a road between Cairo and Alexandria. (dpa)

A minibus collided with a heavy truck on a highway west of Cairo on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring 24 others, Egypt's health ministry said.

The crash occurred near 6th of October City, a sprawling satellite city in Giza province on the western outskirts of the Egyptian capital, the ministry said in a statement.

Officials said 10 of the injured were in critical condition.

Health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said the casualty figures were preliminary and that officials were continuing to assess the situation.

The accident was the latest in a string of fatal road incidents in Egypt, where traffic accidents remain a persistent public safety challenge.

Such crashes are often blamed on reckless driving, poor vehicle maintenance and uneven enforcement of traffic laws.

Road accidents in Egypt injure more than 75,000 people annually and kill over 5,000, according to Egypt's state statistics agency

Earlier this month, 13 people were killed and 34 injured when a large truck struck a tourist bus west of Cairo.

Last month, a bus crash in the Sinai Peninsula killed 22 people, including 10 Jordanian tourists.

In August, at least 18 people, many of them children, died in northern Egypt when two pick-up trucks transporting agricultural day laborers collided.

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Syria Calls Border Security with Jordan a Shared Responsibility

Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
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Syria Calls Border Security with Jordan a Shared Responsibility

Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)
Jordanian soldiers on the border with Syria. (AP file)

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Saturday that border security with Jordan is a shared responsibility and a high-level meeting is expected next month to discuss arrangements. 

Speaking at a security forum in Bahrain, he said there are no “skirmishes” between the countries. The comments came after Jordanian strikes in Syria raised tensions between the neighbors. 

Jordanian border guards stopped a group of 14 armed individuals attempting to cross ‌into ‌northern Jordan from ‌Syria, ⁠the armed forces ⁠said in a statement on Saturday.  

The group ⁠tried to ‌infiltrate on ‌Friday under ‌heavy ‌fire and direct engagement, causing numerous casualties ‌among the armed group, while ⁠the remaining ⁠members fled back into Syria, the armed forces said. 

Jordan said that the strikes last week killed 20 militants with the ISIS extremist group, but acknowledged that civilians also had been killed.  

Syrian authorities reported seven people killed, most of them women and children. 

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Egypt Fears Escalation in Iran War Would Be More Destructive, Foreign Minister Says

26 October 2026, Egypt, New Administrative Capital: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty attends a press conference at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the New Administrative Capital near Cairo. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa
26 October 2026, Egypt, New Administrative Capital: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty attends a press conference at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the New Administrative Capital near Cairo. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa
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Egypt Fears Escalation in Iran War Would Be More Destructive, Foreign Minister Says

26 October 2026, Egypt, New Administrative Capital: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty attends a press conference at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the New Administrative Capital near Cairo. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa
26 October 2026, Egypt, New Administrative Capital: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty attends a press conference at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the New Administrative Capital near Cairo. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday he was "extremely worried" that a new escalation in the war between the United States and Iran would be more destructive and have a major ‌impact.

He was ‌speaking at the ‌IISS ⁠Manama Dialogue security ⁠summit in Bahrain.

"The second round will be more dangerous, more destructive, and it will lead to nowhere. We have to draw lessons from the past," ⁠he said.

An interim agreement ‌reached in ‌June failed to secure a lasting ‌ceasefire in the Iran war ‌or restore normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has since proposed that Washington lift its ‌blockade of Iranian ports in exchange for Tehran reopening the ⁠disrupted ⁠waterway within seven days.

Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday in a renewed effort to broker a deal, but the sides remain divided over whether nuclear negotiations or relief from the blockade and oil sanctions should come first.