DOHA, Qatar – Qatar has called for providing protection to the Palestinian people and their holy sites amid Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem. Qatar “calls on the international community, especially the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities to protect the Palestinian people and their religious sanctities and to sto...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Mali’s public prosecutor has announced the launch of an investigation into a mass grave discovered near the camp formerly occupied by French forces in Gossi, north of Mali. On Wednesday April 27, the Malian army claimed to have discovered a mass grave near a military base left by the French army in […]
JERICHO, PALESTINE (AA) – A young Palestinian man succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday after he was shot by Israeli forces in the eastern occupied West Bank district of Jericho. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Ahmad Ibrahim Oueidat, 20, was shot with a live bullet in the head during an Israeli military raid into […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed 10 PKK fighters in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. They were targeted in the areas of Operations Peace Spring, Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch, Turkiye’s cross-border offensives, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of operations...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to defend on Tuesday ongoing negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top diplomat emphasized that former US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” and decision to unilate...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq said Tuesday it had hosted a fifth round of tension-easing talks between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahaf described the talks between the two neighbors as “positive”. “The atmosphere of the negotiations was calm and there was a state of positivity and understanding,̶...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed as an explosion ripped through a van at a university in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Tuesday, police said. The explosion targeted the vehicle near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language learning cen...
BAGHDAD (AA) – An Iraqi soldier and two ISIS terrorists were killed in a security swoop north of the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the defense ministry. A ministry statement said security forces raided a hideout for ISIS terrorists in al-Boghbin, 50 km north of Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier and two terrorists, including a […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Canadian military is riddled with right-wing extremists including white supremacists and Neo-Nazis and the problem is growing, said a report released Monday. The report, written by the four-member Minister’s Advisory Panel, was released by Defense Minister Anita Anand and it found blatant racism, includin...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A businessman was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment on Monday for his involvement in the attempt to overthrow the Turkish government in 2016. The trial of 17 defendants including Turkish businessman Osman Kavala and nine fugitives over allegations regarding the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt in Turkiye a...
