ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye claims to have “neutralized” seven PKK fighters in northern Iraq and northern Syria, according to the National Defense Ministry. “5 PKK/YPG terrorists were neutralized by our Turkish Armed Forces in the (Operation) Euphrates Shield region in northern Syria and 2 PKK terrorists in the Operation Claw-Lock ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The growth of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank soared under the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, according to an Israeli rights organization. “We can see a 62% jump in construction starts in settlements with the entry of the new government, despite its promise that it would keep a […]...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Mushtaq Ahmad, 55, in the Indian occupied Kashmir was struck with tragedy last year when his younger son died of a drug overdose at the age of 17. “We found him locked inside a washroom and when we opened the door, he was lying lifeless near the toilet,” Ahmad […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized a series of decisions by an EU summit on the Aegean and Mediterranean. The decisions, adopted at the end of a two-day leaders’ summit in Brussels, are “prejudiced, lack vision, and are disconnected from reality”, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Citing several Greek ...
GENEVA (AA) – Countries need to provide the necessary material and legal conditions to enable health personnel to assess, report and document torture and cruel or inhumane treatment, human rights experts from the UN’s three anti-torture mechanisms have said. Experts issued their statement for the International Day in Support of Vic...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian minor died Saturday of injuries he sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to local media. Mohamed Abdullah al-Saher, 16, was shot and injured before being detained by Israeli forces in Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, Friday evening. Al-Saher was transferr...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 rocked Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday, with no immediate reports of casualties or major infrastructural damage. According to Tehran University’s seismology department, the earthquake struck at around 8:07 am local time at a depth of 22 km. The epicenter of the e...
Wuchkai, Afghanistan – (AFP) A ruined village in eastern Afghanistan, just 10 kilometres (six miles) from the epicentre of this week’s deadly earthquake, is struggling back to life as aid trickles into the isolated region. Wuchkai, three hours away from the nearest town of any substance, can only be reached by a narrow, rutted dirt...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP) An Afghan freed after 15 years of detention in the United States’ notorious Guantanamo Bay prison arrived home Saturday to a hero’s welcome. Asadullah Haroon had languished without charge for years at the US detention centre in Cuba after being arrested in 2006 while working as a honey trader travel...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II has said he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle East region. “The kingdom works actively with NATO and sees itself as a partner of the alliance, having fought shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO troops for decades,” he said in an interview with CNBC network. […...
