HOUSTON, Texas – The news of the New York City subway shooting this past week made headlines across the US and around the world. Fortunately, no one was killed. However, the subway shooting is just one of a growing number of violent incidents in NYC which highlights the underlying problem in the Big Apple: crime is […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s military will release political detainees to create a favorable atmosphere for dialogue in the country, according to the army chief. “We have started procedures to release political detainees within two or three days,” Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a statement. He said the move aims to “set the atmosphere ...
PARIS – A man will stand trial in France for assaulting two Muslim women who were wearing headscarves, according to the women’s attorney. Lawyer Nabil Boudi said that the suspect will face charges at the Montpellier Criminal Court on September 14. The alleged assailant will face charges in court for temporarily preventing the two w...
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 […]
