ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s cabinet on Thursday approved a trade deal recently agreed with Türkiye, paving the way for its formalization in the coming months. The Trade in Goods Agreement was unveiled during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s trip to Ankara in June. Under the deal, Türkiye will provide concessions to Pakistan on 261 tariff lines,...
BEIRUT (AA) – A father and his three sons have been arrested in Lebanon over the death of a teenage Syrian boy, state media reported on Thursday. All four are Lebanese nationals and were arrested in Sarafand, a town in the southern Sidon region, according to the official National News Agency. The 14-year-old Syrian boy, […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The chief of India’s Border Security Force claimed on Thursday that Bangladeshis killed along the border were criminals, ignoring his government’s commitment not to use lethal weapons during cross-border movements. Pankaj Kumar Singh, the force’s director general, made the remarks at a press conferenc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian regime policemen were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in an attack targeting their patrol in the southwestern governorate of Daraa, according to the regime’s news agency, SANA. “An armed group attacked a police patrol with light weapons, followed by the explosion of an explosive device, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Wednesday said the US exhibited “bandit behavior” by what Beijing called “stealing” oil from Syria. According to the Chinese daily Global Times, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was responding to reports about Washington transferring “stolen oil” to northern Iraq from “occupied Syrian oilfields.” “Bandit ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU ambassadors approved on Wednesday new sanctions on Moscow, including a ban on gold imports and an asset freeze for Sberbank. “(EU) Ambassadors approved the next sanctions package in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” the Czech government, which holds the current six-month rotating presidency of the...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia and Egypt have expressed a desire to develop bilateral military cooperation. Addressing a joint press conference in Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed to further enhance ties between the two countries. “I think we can cooperate with Egypt mi...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – The first batch of 41 families who were forced to flee their homes in 1993 when Armenian soldiers occupied their village in Zengilan, Azerbaijan’s southwest region, have begun to return home. A group of 60 people, or 10 families, returned their homes in the Agali village, which is located on the […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Syrian regime on Wednesday severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry. “The Syrian Arab Republic has decided to break diplomatic relations with Ukraine in conformity with the principle of reciprocity and in response to the decision of the Ukrainian government,” a foreign ministry of...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a senior Hamas leader in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, according to his son. No reason was provided for Al-Rajoub’s detention. The Hamas leader was released by Israeli forces in January after eight months in administrative detention. The policy of administrative det...
