BURSA, Turkiye – A trainer plane crashed in a residential area in Turkiye’s northwestern Bursa province on Monday April 25. The flight instructor and trainee pilot were killed in the accident. The single-engine aircraft came down in an area with multiple residential buildings, but there were no reports of any casualties on the ground. Firefigh...
ANKARA – At least three PKK fighters were ‘neutralized’ in Turkiye’s southeastern Sirnak region as part of the country’s Eren Abluka-5 (Blockade) operation, according to the Turkish interior minister. Suleyman Soylu said in a tweet the operation to ‘neutralize’ the terrorists was carried out jointly by...
ANKARA – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha has slammed Israeli violations in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, saying the site is only for Muslims. The Al-Aqsa Mosque “is a place of worship purely for Muslims alone,” Taha said during an OIC extraordinary meeting in Je...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has told the US to stop giving weapons to Ukraine, warning that its actions could intensify the conflict, Moscow’s envoy to Washington said on Monday. The US sending arms worth $800 million to Kyiv “does not contribute to the search for a diplomatic solution or settlement,” Anatoly Antonov said in an […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia is failing to achieve its war aims in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. A day after a meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a news conference in Poland. “When it comes to Russia’s war aims, [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Monday it had arrested a Palestinian armed cell, including a mother of four, in the West Bank city of Jenin. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, said the Shin Bet internal security agency arrested seven Palestinians affiliated with the Islamic Jihad group in Jenin. He said [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish military forces in an operation in northern Syria on Monday killed at least 13 PKK fighters who were allegedly preparing to strike regions that were cleared of terrorism through Turkiye’s counter-terrorism campaigns. The National Defense Ministry said in a tweet that the “terrorists” were preparing to ta...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday criticized US President Joe Biden’s recent statements on the events of 1915, calling them ahistorical and based on misinformation. “The US president should learn and know history very well,” Erdogan told reporters in the capital Ankara after a Cabinet meeting. “We canno...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 170 civilians have been killed in renewed tribal clashes in Sudan’s western Darfur province, said a local aid group on Monday. Adam Rigal, a spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, said nine people were killed when the violence first erupted on Friday in West […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – A New York state judge has held former US President Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to hand over documents as part of an ongoing state investigation, state Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday. Trump must either comply with an earlier court order mandating that he turn over the […]
