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 ...
ANKARA (AA) – The French president on Wednesday called for a direct dialogue between Israel and Palestine. “In the short term, we know, this first requires the end of unilateral measures on the ground,” Emmanuel Macron said in a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Elysee Palace in Paris. “I am thinking [&hel...
Zangilan, Azerbaijan – (AFP): Azerbaijan on Tuesday began the process of returning its people to land recaptured from Armenian separatists in what Baku calls “The Great Return” following a 2020 war over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. The oil-rich country has vowed to repopulate lands recaptured in the six-week war with arch-foe C...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, targeting a position belonging to Hamas. The army said the attack came after a bullet was fired from the territory and hit an industrial building in southern Israel earlier Tuesday. No injuries were reported in the Israeli air strike. Israeli mounted [&helli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli leaders on Tuesday threatened to unleash a military response against Lebanon, one day after Tel Aviv shot down a Hezbollah drone amid tension over a maritime border dispute. “Israel is prepared and ready to act against any threat,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said during a tour of Israel’s border with Lebanon. […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The PKK organization continued to forcibly recruit children to use them in conflicts in Iraq and Syria, according to a report by US State Department on Tuesday. The 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report stated that children remain vulnerable to forcible recruitment and use by multiple armed groups operating in Iraq, including IS...
