ANKARA (AA) – Israeli forces launched a rocket attack on Syria’s southern province of Quneitra, Syrian media reported on Wednesday. Israeli forces targeted the Hader town with rockets, according to the official SANA news agency. The attack caused only material damage, it added. Israeli officials generally avoid making statements about at...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has arrested two European nationals for allegedly “fomenting chaos and social disorder,” without revealing their nationalities. In a statement on Wednesday, the Intelligence Ministry said the detainees had been sent by “foreign conspirators” to carry out destabilizing activities in the country. The two arre...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and several others wounded when a bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, an official said. Somali police spokesman Abdifatah Adan Hassan told Anadolu Agency that two security personnel were among the dead in the attack on the secu...
ANKARA (AA) – A Palestinian official on Wednesday denied reports about receiving an Israeli request to launch a joint investigation into the death of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead when she was covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning. Another […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday said the Israeli forces shot dead Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh when she was covering an Israeli raid in the northern Jenin city of the occupied West Bank. Another journalist, Ali Al-Samoudi, was shot in the back, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry....
ANKARA (AA) – Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “I’m experiencing mild symptoms and am following the experts’ advice by isolating until I’m healthy again. I’m fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted and have access to t...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that a visit to Ukraine made him aware of a convergence of global crises like the war there, the coronavirus pandemic, a worldwide food and energy crisis and migration and climate issues that need solving with “real global leadership.” WHO Director-General T...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A group of scholars from Turkey and Pakistan deliberated on regional security issues Tuesday in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. In what is described as the first Turkey-Pakistan security dialogue, Professor Rabia Akhtar from the University of Lahore said the participants discussed how the regional security architecture shap...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Israel refused to grant permission to Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation Meryame Kitir to enter the Gaza Strip, a Belgian news outlet has reported. The Israeli government “made it clear that they do not authorize any political visits to Gaza at this time,” Kitir’s cabinet said, according to public broadcaster RTB...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaci, who is facing war crime charges at a special court in The Hague, has denied new charges. In 2020, Kosovo police launched a search operation at Thaci’s residence in the capital Pristina a day after he announced his resignation to face charges brought against him. ...
