JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel on Thursday completed tests of a high-powered laser defense system that intercepts mortars, missiles, anti-tank missiles and drones. The Israeli Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development and private defense technology company Rafael completed tests with the high-powered ‘Iron Beam’ laser i...
ANKARA (AA) – Syrian state media said late Thursday that Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes targeting the capital Damascus. Israeli air elements carried out the attack from the direction of the Golan Heights, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. The attack targeted some locations in the western Damascus countryside, it noted. ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iranian authorities on Friday seized an oil tanker smuggling fuel in the Gulf, the second such incident in as many weeks. Seven crew members of the vessel were arrested by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), an official told Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. The tanker was carrying 250,000 liters of smuggled fuel, […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish forces killed three PKK men in northern Syria, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said on Twitter the “terrorists, who opened harassment fire” at the Euphrates Shield area and Olive Branch zone, were gearing up to attack. “Harassment and attack attempts by terrorists...
JERUSALEM (AA) – More than 150 Palestinians were injured at dawn on Friday as the Israeli police stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 152 Palestinians were injured during clashes with the Israeli police in the courtyards of the mosque. The Palestinians were injured by rubber bullets, tear gas, ...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – The Danish leader of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party burned a copy of the Holy Quran on Thursday in a heavily-populated Muslim area in Sweden, according to media reports. Rasmus Paludan, accompanied by police, went to an open public space in southern Linkoping and placed the Muslim holy book down […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – El Shafee Elsheikh, a British man, better known as one of the ISIS group’s “Beatles,” was reportedly found guilty Thursday on all eight charges by a jury in the US state of Virginia. Elsheikh faces a sentence of up to life in prison. He was brought to the US in 2020 alongside […]
KARACHI, Pakistan – Thousands of Pakistanis formed a human chain to commend the UN for declaring March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The event took place in the Jhang district of the northeastern Punjab province under the umbrella of the Muslim Institute, an Islamabad-based think tank, which has long been voicing concer...
ISTANBUL – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has welcomed the announcement of the peaceful transfer of power of the legitimate Yemeni government by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to the Presidential Leadership Council. In a press release, the UNSC expressed hope that this would constitute an important step towards stability an...
HOUSTON, Texas – Austin Tice was abducted near Damascus, Syria on August 14, 2012, while covering the country’s civil war as a freelance journalist for multiple US news organizations. Almost 10 years later, he has yet to be released and returned to his hometown of Houston, Texas. “He was only there 83 days before he […]
