ISTANBUL – The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to hold meetings on a joint border commission and working group over a possible peace treaty. “It was agreed to convene the meetings of the Joint Border Commission, as well as Working Group on the preparation of a peace treaty in the near future,” […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. Zakaria Baker of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAEC) in Gaza said the three fishermen were taken into custody while fishing off the coast of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. […]
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...
