BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The Dutch government on Monday apologized to Bosniak families who lost their relatives in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren offered the apology at the 27th commemoration of the genocide at the cemetery in Potocari in Bosnia and Herzegovina. “The Netherlands ...
ANKARA (AA) – China and Pakistan started Sunday a four-day joint naval drill in the East China Sea. The maritime drill, named Sea Guardians-2, is an annual exercise between the two countries, Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. The exercise off Shanghai is not related to any regional situations and does not target any third [&hellip...
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan has announced that 14-day visa-free travel has been granted for citizens of Iran, China and India. The unilateral 14-day visa-free travel took effect for personal, business and tourist purposes as of July 8, according to a statement by the country’s customs authority. However, visa-free stays cann...
ANKARA (AA) – The US is planning to build a diplomatic complex on private property confiscated from Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, a rights organization said Sunday. In a statement, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said they have found new evidence that the land on which the diplomatic compound is [&...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan Prime Minister has said the country has never considered Iran a threat to its national security. “We have never looked at Iran as a source of threats to our national security,” Bisher al-Khasawneh told the BBC in an interview. The premier said Amman is seeking to establish good relations with […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A senior military commander was shot dead in eastern Yemen, according to Yemeni authorities on Monday. Col. Belkhir Banseb of the 2nd Military Zone came under fire from unidentified gunmen in the city of Hadhramaut late Sunday. “Yemen has lost one of the most prominent cadres and heroes, who was distinguished […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Army and paramilitary troops were called in to join the relief and rescue operations after fresh rain spells and flash floods inundated most parts of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Monday. Another five people lost their lives in rain-related accidents in Karachi, home to 20 million people, as widespread...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement said Thursday it will boycott the referendum this month on a new version of the country’s constitution. Ennahda spokesman Emad al-Houmairi termed the July 25 referendum on the new constitution “illegitimate.” “Ennahda calls for boycotting the constitutional referendum and considers it ille...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim administration of Afghanistan has chided the US decision to rescind Afghanistan’s designation as a “major non-NATO ally.” US President Biden last week notified the Congress of his intent to officially rescind Afghanistan’s designation as a “major non-NATO ally.” “In accordance wit...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) no longer has any Muslim legislator in the parliament as the tenure of its last Muslim legislator- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi- who also served as the country’s Minority Affairs Ministry, ended on Thursday. Naqvi, 64, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha or [&hel...
