ANKARA (AA) – The UN Security Council’s extension of the use of Bab al-Hawa as a crossing point from Türkiye to Syria for humanitarian deliveries is an important outcome, the European Union has said. On Tuesday, the UNSC had agreed to extend its mandate for badly needed cross-border aid deliveries from Türkiye’s Cilvegozu border cr...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said US President Joe Biden’s Middle East tour aims to serve Israeli interests. Biden is undertaking a tour of Israel, West Bank, and Saudi Arabia. “Biden’s visit will only serve the Israeli interests in the region at the expense of the Palestinian cause,” Hamas spo...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Wednesday lifted force majeure on the terminals of Zueitina and Brega after almost four months of closure. In a statement, NOC said a tanker was allowed to carry condensate for use in power generation in Libya’s eastern region. Outgoing NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla said negotiatio...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is concerned coronavirus cases and deaths are climbing, stretching health systems while monkeypox is also rising with 9,200 cases reported in 63 countries. “The Emergency Committee on COVID-19 met on Friday last week and concluded that the virus remains a ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali military on Tuesday said that it had killed 25 al-Shabaab fighters during an operation in the country’s central Hiiraan region, according to Somali military radio. The military operation was conducted on the outskirts of the Mahas district, said Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Bakaay, a military commander. The...
PARIS (AA) – A French court on Tuesday sentenced a former Rwandan official to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide in the African country. The Paris Assize Court held Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, the former prefect of Gikongoro province, guilty of acts of genocide and complicity in genocide […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has admitted that he was involved in planning coups in foreign countries. Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building by Trump’s suppor...
Abidjan, Ivory Coast – (AFP): Ivory Coast has called on Mali to release 49 of its soldiers “unjustly” detained at Bamako airport and accused by officials there of being mercenaries. None of the Ivorian soldiers detained were carrying weapons of war, said a statement from the Ivorian president’s office after an emergency...
Bamako, Mali – (AFP): Mali has said that the 49 Ivory Coast troops whom it detained were “mercenaries”. “It has been established that the 49 Ivorian soldiers were illegally on the national territory of Mali,” government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga said in a statement read on state TV, calling the men “mercenar...
Washington, United States – (AFP): A research institution has downplayed the killing of Maher al-Agal in Syria, saying the ISIS in the country is “barely a shadow” of what it used to be. “It is important to remember that each time an Islamic State head is killed, they are replaced immediately,” Damien Ferre, found...
