Abidjan, Ivory Coast – (AFP): Ivory Coast has called on Mali to release 49 of its soldiers “unjustly” detained at Bamako airport and accused by officials there of being mercenaries. None of the Ivorian soldiers detained were carrying weapons of war, said a statement from the Ivorian president’s office after an emergency...
Bamako, Mali – (AFP): Mali has said that the 49 Ivory Coast troops whom it detained were “mercenaries”. “It has been established that the 49 Ivorian soldiers were illegally on the national territory of Mali,” government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga said in a statement read on state TV, calling the men “mercenar...
Washington, United States – (AFP): A research institution has downplayed the killing of Maher al-Agal in Syria, saying the ISIS in the country is “barely a shadow” of what it used to be. “It is important to remember that each time an Islamic State head is killed, they are replaced immediately,” Damien Ferre, found...
‘WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran is moving rapidly to provide Russia with hundreds of its domestically-manufactured drones to bolster the Kremlin’s war effort against Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official has disclosed. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the US has information suggesti...
LONDON (AA) – More than 50 detainees and unarmed men were killed by British troops in Afghanistan, according to newly obtained military reports and an investigation by the BBC. BBC Panorama program on Tuesday night looked into documents of operations by the Special Air Service (SAS) – a British elite unit used in special operations […]...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Iran’s capital Tehran on July 19 to take part in a trilateral meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a Kremlin spokesman. Putin will also hold a separate bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Dmitry Peskov told a p...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has agreed to extend its mandate for badly-needed cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for six months. The 12-0 vote came after Russia vetoed a UN resolution on Friday that would have extended cross-border deliveries from Türkiye for one year. The Council’s mandate expired Sunday. The res...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has appointed a new chairman of Libya’s state oil company. “Farhat Omar Bengdara was appointed chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), replacing Mustafa Sanalla,” Oil Ministry spokesman Ahmad Jumaa announced. He added that four new board members of...
ANKARA (AA) – Delegations from Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will gather at an investment workshop in Istanbul on Wednesday. Three ministers from the UAE, as well as senior officials of investment funds and companies will meet with public and private sector organizations, and business world representatives at the event. According ...
