ISTANBUL – The family of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received another death threat in an envelope that contained a bullet, according to the Israeli media. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation network (KAN) said the target of the threat letter was Bennett’s 17-year-old son Yoni. The incident is being investigated by ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye and Saudi Arabia are striving to increase all kinds of political, military and economic relations to start a new era, the Turkish president said early Friday. “We paid a visit to Saudi Arabia upon the invitation of Khadimu’l Haremeyn (the Servant of Mecca and Medina)”, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referring to [...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Thursday urged Israel to cease its strikes on Syria, saying the attacks are “categorically unacceptable and inadmissible.” Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova strongly condemned the Israeli actions, stressing that they violate international law. “We dema...
LONDON (AA) – The Guardian published an investigative report on Thursday with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013. The piece was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov. Tadamon is a sub...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council on Thursday urged the government to probe attacks against Muslims in the northern city of Gondar. The call for an immediate investigation into the deadly attacks came at a news conference by Hajji Mufti Omer Idriss, president of the Ethiopian Islamic body, amid uproar [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on the country’s political parties for a comprehensive dialogue, the first since he took power in 2014. An Egyptian political affairs expert told Anadolu Agency that the dialogue will include the Salafist Islamist groups and supporters of the regime, but excludes an...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish armed forces killed a dozen PKK fighters in northern Syria as they were preparing to attack areas cleared by Turkiye’s military operations, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. “Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) continue to destroy terror nests in northern Syria,” the ministry said in a statement, [&...
MOSCOW – Russia has sanctioned 287 members of the UK House of Commons in response to sanctions imposed on its lawmakers over the Ukraine war. The Russian Foreign Ministry published the complete list of sanctioned UK parliamentarians on its website. “In response to the decision taken by the British government on March 11 this year [&helli...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to “racial segregation and discrimination” against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The experts made their assessment based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to “discriminatory zoning and plannin...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday unearthed three more bodies of war victims from a mass grave near the city of Mostar. The Institute of Missing Persons said that the bodies found in Medjine, were transferred to the Sutina City Cemetery in Mostar for medical and forensic processing, and bone samples were [&helli...
