JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel has signed arms deals worth more than $3 billion with countries in the region since the signing of the ‘Abraham Accords’ for the normalization of ties in 2020 with Arab countries. Gantz said Israeli Defense Ministry personnel held about 150 meetings with ...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran claimed Wednesday that it had detained the UK’s deputy ambassador in Tehran for allegedly taking samples of soil from a region where missile exercises were being conducted. Giles Whitaker and several other foreign nationals were detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after it was determined that...
Allahabad, India – (AFP) After two nights in police custody, Indian teenager Somaiya Fatima was released in time to watch live footage of an excavator claw smashing into the walls of her childhood home. The residence is among scores of dwellings and businesses flattened by wrecking crews this year, in a campaign authorities have promoted...
JERUSALEM (AA) – US President Joe Biden will visit the Palmachim Air Base in central Israel during his tour to the region next week, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Thursday. A ministry statement said the base has been prepared by the Directorate of Research and Development of the Missile Defense Organization to welcome the US […]
Abuja, Nigeria – (AFP) Suspected Boko Haram fighters using guns and explosives blasted their way into a prison near Nigeria’s capital, freeing dozens of their jailed comrades and hundreds of other inmates, the government said on Wednesday. Tuesday night’s brazen attack on the outskirts of Abuja came just hours after an ambush...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian street vendors often complain of official harassment, but one sandwich maker-turned-social-media-star hopes his struggles against bureaucracy will motivate young entrepreneurs. Habib Hlila, 27, first set up a food van in the working-class Bab El Khadra district of Tunis in early April, selling sandwiches at ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian authorities have frozen the financial assets of the head of Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi. Ghannouchi heads the Tunisian opposition and also served as the speaker of the dissolved Parliament. Nine other people have also been included in the list of those whose assets have been frozen. In a statement, the Financial [...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces claim to have “neutralized” another 20 YPG fighters in northern Syria. The Kurdish nationalist fighters were targeted in Türkiye’s anti-militancy operations Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield zones, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry. Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply th...
KILIS, Türkiye (AA) – A suspected ISIS member has been nabbed in Türkiye’s southeastern province of Kilis bordering Syria in connection with the killing of two Turkish soldiers in 2015. According to the provincial gendarmerie command, the suspect, identifed as I I (identity withheld), was arrested in an operation in the Oncupinar neighbo...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has said that it will reopen its economic and trade office in Türkiye in August as relations have begun to improve between the two countries. “The reopening of the economic attaché reflects Israel’s commitment to deepening economic ties with Türkiye,” Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai said in a statement. “We inten...
