LONDON (AA) – Palestine supporters staged a rally in central London on Thursday against Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, calling for an immediate cease-fire and an end to arms shipments to Israel. Carrying Palestinian flags, a group of people held a march toward Piccadilly Circus against Israeli attacks on Gaza that have killed...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s top border adviser said Thursday that the new administration will reintroduce family detention for migrants with children. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” Tom Homan told The Washington Post. ...
ALEPPO/DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) — Protests in Syria, triggered by claims of damage to a religious shrine, were the result of provocations by elements of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime, the country’s interim government said. Protests erupted in several areas, including Hama, Homs, Latakia, Tartus, and the towns of Jableh and Banyas, after video...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has announced the arrest of several spies in Yemen who were allegedly working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “Security agencies have, in recent days, arrested an (unspecified) number of spies recruited by the wanted (man) Hamid Hussein F...
MOSCOW (AA) – A survivor of Wednesday’s Azerbaijan Airlines crash claims that the plane’s pilots tried to land in Grozny, Chechnya, three times, followed by an explosion outside the plane, according to an audio recording shared by Russian TV channel RT. Subkhankul Rahimov said that something exploded on the third landing attempt and that...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again forced his way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Ben-Gvir entered the site under heavy police protection and toured the mosque’s courtyard, said an official with the Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem. This was his fifth...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machine guns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese army...
Iran has lifted access restrictions on WhatsApp and Google Play, marking a significant step in easing internet controls. The decision was made during a meeting of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace. It was attended by top officials, Cabinet ministers, and council members, according to state news agency IRNA. The session emphasized t...
Libyan authorities have deported 400 irregular migrants to Niger by land, marking the first such operation in 12 years. The deportation, conducted Wednesday, is part of intensified efforts to curb illegal migration. Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Buredia, deputy head of security at the Anti-Illegal Migration Unit, said the agency has ramped up op...
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, raising the death toll from an ongoing military operation in the area to eight, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry statement said seven more people were injured, including two seriously, in the offensive. The Israeli army began a large-scale [&hel...
