RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the Israeli escalation in the West Bank city of Jenin. A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli forces early Saturday in Jenin during a raid. Islamic Jihad movement said the young man was a member of its military wing, the Saraya al-Quds Brigades. […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Four American soldiers were injured in a missile attack targeting a US base east of Syria on Saturday, according to the US-led international coalition fighting ISIS. “Coalition forces at Green Village in Eastern Syria received two rounds of indirect fire that struck two support buildings,” the coalition said in a statement. It [&...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded on Saturday in an attack by ISIS militants in the western Anbar province, according to an Iraqi military officer. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ISIS terrorists attacked a military checkpoint in the city of Heet with machine guns. He […]
JENIN, PALESTINE – Israeli forces on Saturday conducted a large-scale raid of the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, targeting mainly the residence of Raed Hazem, accused of killing three Israelis in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening before he was shot and killed in nearby Jaffa nine hours later. The Israeli […]
ANKARA (AA) – A diplomat appointed by the Taliban as their charge d’affairs in Moscow took office on Saturday, an official with the interim Afghan administration said. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, thanked Moscow for “accrediting the Afghan diplomat” and “facilitating the role of the Afghan Embassy i...
BRUSSELS – Ukraine is in immediate need for weapons and measures from Western allies to stop the Russian war machine, the country’s top diplomat has said. Speaking at a news conference following talks with NATO foreign ministers, Dmytro Kuleba said he only had “three points on his agenda: Weapons, weapons, weapons.” Kul...
JOHANNESBURG – The president of South Africa has said that the Ukraine war has exposed the inability of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to fulfill its mandate to maintain international peace and security. “The entire peace and security architecture of the United Nations needs to be overhauled,” Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the [&...
ATHENS – The Human Rights Watch has accused Greek authorities of double standards in accepting Ukrainian refugees but rejecting irregular Afghan and other migrants at the border with Turkiye. A 29-page report said that Greek forces detained, stripped and stole the belongings of irregular migrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East befo...
KIGALI, Rwanda – The transition government in Mali has accused the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) of ignoring a court order to lift sanctions. UEMOA instructed all financial institutions under its umbrella to suspend Mali in January after the junta delayed elections. The measures were announced in conjunction with sanct...
MOSCOW – Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “This is a huge tragedy for us,” he told SkyNews TV in an interview. The Russia-Ukraine war, which started February 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough fi...
