BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah met with Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Beirut, according to the Lebanese group on Thursday. A Hezbollah statement said the two sides dwelt on political developments and threats in the region. They discussed developments on the ground in the Palestinian territories an...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s Presidential Council on Thursday launched a strategy for national reconciliation amid a deep political crisis in the country. “Libya needs national efforts to draw it away from foreign interference,” Mohamed al-Menfi, head of the council, said in a speech during a ceremony held in the capital Tripoli. ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – NATO on Thursday confirmed that it would provide security support to Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. “The support will include training against threats posed by Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) materials, which will be delivered by Slovakia and NATO’s Joint CBRN Defence Centre of Exc...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkmenistan announced on Thursday that it will send humanitarian assistance to earthquake victims in Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, while addressing Mohammad Fazel Saber, charge d’affaires of the Afghanistan Embassy in Ashgabat, expressed his country’s willingness to provide humanitarian assistance to ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Thursday dismissed the intelligence chief of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and replaced him with a senior military commander. IRGC chief Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami in a decree on Thursday appointed Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi in place of Hossein Taeb, a formidable clergyman who held the powerfu...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Israel have begun efforts to raise the diplomatic representation at relevant countries to the level of ambassadors, the Turkish foreign minister announced on Thursday. Stressing the significance of bilateral political and regional consultations, Mevlut Cavusoglu during a news conference with his Israeli counterp...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that he has been “saddened” by Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Over 1,000 people were reported to have died and nearly 1,600 were injured after a jolt hit Paktika province, according to local authorities. The death toll is feared to ris...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Muslims in Uganda have protested against discrimination and exclusion from government positions by getting their MPs to write to the nation’s president. Fifty Muslim MPs in the Uganda Muslims Parliamentary Caucus (UMPC) wrote to the President Yoweri Museveni through Speaker Annet Among, in order to complain about t...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have declared their determination to launch a new era of cooperation in bilateral ties in political, economic, military, security and cultural spheres. Erdogan welcomed bin Salman with an official ceremony in the capital Ankara. According to a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) on Wednesday voted in a preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve itself in preparation for early elections in October. The bill was supported by 110 lawmakers during the vote. A second and third vote is expected to be held next week. “It is expected that the procedures […]...
