SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed by Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military said on Saturday in a statement. The fatalities occurred in attacks by Houthi rebels over the past two days despite a UN-brokered truce between the warring rivals. According to the statement, nine soldiers were also injured. The statement docume...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi security forces captured 26 suspected members of the ISIS in security swoops across Iraq, authorities said on Sunday. Seven suspected ISIS members were arrested in an ambush in the northern Kirkuk province on Saturday, the Iraqi National Security Service said in a statement. Security forces also nabbed 12 suspects in the [...
ANKARA (AA) – Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the US announced Saturday that they would provide $11 billion to address regional and international food security challenges. The US welcomed the “decision by the Arab Coordination Group (ACG), which includes 10 Arab and national specialized financial developmental ins...
JEDDAH CITY, Saudi Arabia (AA) – President Joe Biden pledged on Saturday to provide Jordan with $1.45 billion in assistance every year. The pledge was made in a joint statement issued following a meeting between Biden and Jordanian King Abdullah II on the sideline of a US-Arab summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan said Saturday that 31 people were killed in tribal clashes in the Blue Nile state near the border with Ethiopia. The clashes between Hausa and Birta tribes erupted in the town of Damazin on Friday and spread to other areas in the state on Saturday. The violence was triggered by […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has accused the United States of stoking tension in the Middle East region by resorting to “Iranophobia” following President Joe Biden’s regional tour. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani dismissed accusations against Iran made during Biden’s maiden regional tr...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported in southern Somalia on Sunday as a powerful explosion struck a popular hotel frequented by regional authorities, officials said. The blast was the result of a car bomb that targeted Nur Dob hotel in the town of Jowhar, wounding several people including local authorities, among t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Türkiye was “an attack on democracy, and an attack on a NATO ally,” a former US ambassador in Türkiye and Iraq said on Friday, calling the perpetrator of the putsch a “terrorist organization.” Speaking at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC as it marked [&he...
MADRID (AA) – Excess temperatures brought on by the heatwave that continues to wash over Spain and Portugal have killed at least 322 people. High temperatures in the first three days of the heatwave in Spain, which officially began on Sunday, killed 84 people, according to figures from the Carlos III Health Institute released on [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Belgium on Friday appointed a seasoned journalist as its next foreign minister, local media reported. Hadja Lahbib, the former news anchor of Belgium’s public broadcaster RTBF, was chosen to succeed Sophie Wilmes after she formally resigned, according to the country’s Flemish-language broadcaster VRT. The develo...
