ISTANBUL (AA) – Since US-led foreign forces completely withdrew from Afghanistan last August, around 700 people have been killed and over 1,400 injured, most of them by a local branch of the ISIS, according to a UN report released Wednesday. The deaths and injuries were predominantly caused by IED attacks attributed to ISIS-Khorasan Province (...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi judiciary has launched an investigation into leaked audios attributed to former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he attacked Iraqi politicians. Iraqi journalist Ali Fadel earlier published audios allegedly attributed to al-Maliki during a meeting in which he termed Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as “murderer” and “...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s public prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into the recent arrest at the country’s main international airport of 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast. Mali’s military government said last week that it had arrested the soldiers upon their arrival in the capital Bamako after they were f...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran, Türkiye and Russia have reiterated their commitment to work toward a political and diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis at the seventh summit of the guarantor states of the Astana Process on Syria in Tehran. In his remarks at the trilateral meeting and at the joint presser, Iran’s President Ebrahim [&h...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina bade farewell to 16 more victims identified to have been killed in the Prijedor massacre. The 16 newly identified Bosniak Muslim civilians who were killed in the Bosnian war by Serbian forces between 1992 and 1995 were buried in a collective funeral at the Kamicani Memorial Center. At [&hell...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Six Iraqi policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack by the ISIS in northern Iraq, local media reported. ISIS attacked a federal police checkpoint near the city of Samarra, the local Alsumaria TV reported. Seven policemen were also injured in the attack. A statement by the Interior Ministry said a security delegation […...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Muslim women in Uganda have complained in the parliament that they are being forced to remove their veils before getting any services. The women said that apart from being forced to remove veils before being photographed at passport offices, some schools force female students to remove their veils. Female MP for [&...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military government has announced the expulsion of a UN peacekeeping mission spokesman for posts he made on Twitter following a diplomatic incident with the Ivory Coast. Olivier Salgado, from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Foreign Minis...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Saudi-led coalition on Wednesday denied rebel accusations of carrying out airstrikes in war-torn Yemen. On Tuesday, Houthi rebels accused the coalition of launching airstrikes in the southwestern Dhale province. A coalition statement, however, termed the rebel accusations “baseless”, saying it has halted its attacks in ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s Tehran Stock Exchange on Tuesday launched trading in Iranian rial/Russian ruble. Some 2 million rubles traded in the Iranian stock market on Tuesday – with a ratio of 5,390 rials per ruble, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported. The rial/ruble transactions began in the wake of Russian President Vladimir ...
