TAL ABYAD, Syria – The Assad regime and the YPG/PKK group are mutually easing the blockades they imposed on each other in northeastern Syria’s Al-Hasakah and Aleppo provinces with the mediation of Russia. The Assad regime and YPG/PKK representatives have met in the Qamishli district of Al-Hasakah via Russia. The parties decided to loosen...
ANKARA (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for respecting and upholding the status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem amid tensions between Palestinians and Israel. “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. Dujarric ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has decried plans by lawmakers to form a “national salvation” government overseas as a “coup attempt”. “Those behind this attempt have not been arrested, and we have not demanded that,” Saied said in a video clip shared by the presidency during his Saturday meeting with Justice Mi...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian group Hamas has said it is communicating with the UN and regional countries to avoid escalation with Israel amid rising tensions in East Jerusalem. Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq said his movement had sent messages to mediators that “Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque are a red line and that any provocation...
NEW YORK (AA) – A Syrian immigrant who has been hailed as a hero after helping New York City police catch the suspect in this week’s mass subway shooting recalled the aftermath of the horrific attack, saying that it reminded him of the civil war in Syria. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Zakaria Tahhan, 21, said […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Opposing legislators wrestled with fists and roughed each other up on Saturday in a provincial assembly in Pakistan just moments before the election of a new chief minister. The provincial assembly was convened on the orders of a high court in Lahore, Punjab’s capital, to elect the province’s new chief minister, ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven Pakistani troops were killed in an ambush by suspected militants near the Afghan border, according to a military statement on Friday. The incident, which ranks as one of the deadliest attacks in recent months, took place in the Isham area of the restless North Waziristan district when a […]
BEIJING/ANKARA – China’s recent decision to extend the COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions in Shanghai for an indefinite period due to the rise in cases triggered a strong response by locals. More than 26 million people in the city, which is the largest metropolis in Asia, are currently facing curfew and isolation. Authorities have been c...
WASHINGTON – Russia has formally protested via a diplomatic note against ongoing US arms shipments to Ukraine, warning of “unpredictable consequences” if they continue. The demarche came as US President Joe Biden signed off on an additional $800 million in military aid to Kyiv. Biden’s decision included heavy armaments ...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 18 diplomats of the EU office in Moscow persona non grata, a move deplored by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell as “unjustified”. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry summoned EU ambassador Marcus Exeter and expressed its strong protest against the expulsion of 19 Russian diplomats from the country&#...
