MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 12 soldiers were killed and several others wounded when a gun battle erupted Monday between units of security forces in Somalia’s Puntland state in the port city of Bosaso, said an official. The firefight took place at the entrance of Bosaso International Airport. Puntland Security Minister Abdisamad Ga...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers chopped down hundreds of olive trees in the occupied West Bank, a local Palestinian official said on Monday. “Settlers destroyed 200 olive trees and 250 fruit trees in the towns of Al-Mughayer and Turmus Aya near Ramallah,” Mohamed Elwan, coordinator of the Palestinian Farmers Association, told the s...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s president and the Saudi crown prince on Monday discussed bilateral ties and regional issues, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate. The two also exchanged Eid greetings, said a statement by the directorate. On June 22, the Saudi crown prince visited Türkiye and had a one-on-one meeting with Erdogan. ...
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Unlike the past six years, Eid al-Adha this year brought a special sense of joy to the family of Osaid Abu Khdair. Abu Khdair, 34, from the town of Surif near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was released by Israel earlier this month, days before the start of Eid Al-Adha, […]
PARIS (AA) – France’s attorney general at the Court of Cassation has underlined the principle of “state obligation” to bring back all French nationals living in camps in Syria. “We have to bring all of them back,” Francois Molins told RTL radio. This came days after the government, in a major policy shift, set aside […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian authorities have said that Israel will examine reports of the mass burial of Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 Middle East war. Last week, Israeli media published accounts of people involved in the burial of dozens of Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 war in an unmarked mass grave west of Jerusalem. The […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish president and Armenian prime minister have spoken over the phone and discussed the normalization process between their countries. “Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Nikol Pashinyan emphasized the importance they attach to the bilateral normalization process between Türkiye and Armenia, which will also contribute to...
BELGRADE, Serbia / ANKARA (AA) – Masterminds of the Bosnian genocide of 1995- Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic- driven by blind hate and ethnic prejudice, carried out the most well-documented and widely known genocide and crime against humanity in Europe after World War II. Both faced charges for their role in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s president and his Russian counterpart discussed the establishment of safe corridors for grain exports in the Black Sea and the latest developments in northern Syria, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate. During their phone call, Recep Tayyip Erdogan emphasized the importance of extending the cross-b...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US voiced solidarity with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 11 as the Balkan nation marked the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. The mass killings of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men in 1995 by Serb forces marks biggest genocide in Europe since the World Wars. […]
