‘WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran is moving rapidly to provide Russia with hundreds of its domestically-manufactured drones to bolster the Kremlin’s war effort against Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official has disclosed. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the US has information suggesti...
LONDON (AA) – More than 50 detainees and unarmed men were killed by British troops in Afghanistan, according to newly obtained military reports and an investigation by the BBC. BBC Panorama program on Tuesday night looked into documents of operations by the Special Air Service (SAS) – a British elite unit used in special operations […]...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Iran’s capital Tehran on July 19 to take part in a trilateral meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a Kremlin spokesman. Putin will also hold a separate bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Dmitry Peskov told a p...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has agreed to extend its mandate for badly-needed cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for six months. The 12-0 vote came after Russia vetoed a UN resolution on Friday that would have extended cross-border deliveries from Türkiye for one year. The Council’s mandate expired Sunday. The res...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has appointed a new chairman of Libya’s state oil company. “Farhat Omar Bengdara was appointed chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), replacing Mustafa Sanalla,” Oil Ministry spokesman Ahmad Jumaa announced. He added that four new board members of...
ANKARA (AA) – Delegations from Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will gather at an investment workshop in Istanbul on Wednesday. Three ministers from the UAE, as well as senior officials of investment funds and companies will meet with public and private sector organizations, and business world representatives at the event. According ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US military killed an ISIS leader during a drone attack Tuesday in northwest Syria, according to Central Command (CENTCOM). The strike targeted two senior ISIS officials outside Jindayris, northwest Syria. “Maher al-Agal, one of the top five ISIS leaders and the leader of ISIS in Syria, was killed in the strik...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman voiced hope Monday that a planned regional visit by US President Joe Biden this week will lead to a common market in the Middle East. Biden is scheduled to arrive in Israel on July 13 as part of a regional tour that also includes the West Bank […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi health authorities on Monday reported a major surge in coronavirus infections in the Arab country. “COVID-19 infections rose by 30 percent compared to previous waves of the pandemic,” Riyad Abdel-Amir, Public Health Director at the Health Ministry, said in statements carried by the state news agency. He, however, said that...