China has demolished the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center, once a prominent building symbolizing Uyghur entrepreneurship and identity in Urumqi in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan. Satellite images confirm the site is now rubble. Built in 1990, the seven-story center housed more than 600 shops, conference halls, and classrooms. It played a key role ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s parliament has approved the preliminary reading of a bill that would prohibit the return of the bodies of Palestinians killed while allegedly carrying out attacks against Israelis to their families. The bill mandates their burial in Israel’s “Cemetery for the Enemy’s Victims” or the “Cemetery o...
ANKARA (AA) – Following the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, families who identified their loved ones in photographs taken by a whistleblower codenamed “Caesar” showing victims tortured to death by the regime hope that legal proceedings will ensure justice for the perpetrators. With the collapse of the tyrannical Ba’ath regi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Fadl Abdulghani, the director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), says the organization has documented over 6,000 regime officers involved in war crimes under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. In an interview, Abdulghani called for the prosecution of all those involved, urging Syria’s new government to swiftly establis...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency David Barnea held talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha to discuss a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, Israeli media reported. Israeli news portal Walla said Barnea’s visit to Qatar was part of efforts to reach a deal with […]...
President Joe Biden has designated the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania as a national monument. The move aims to highlight the painful history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. The Carlisle School, which operated from 1879 to 1918, was the first federally funded off-reservation boarding school. It aimed ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin has said that US President-elect Donald Trump did not send Russian President Vladimir Putin an invitation to attend his inauguration in January. Speaking to journalists in the Russian capital Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they have not received an invitation extended by Trump. Peskov’s remarks c...
Canadian lawmakers have called for urgent measures to tackle Islamophobia, antisemitism, and hate on university campuses. Members of the Liberal and New Democrat parties are demanding a ban on terrorist emblems, a crackdown on discriminatory protests, and enhanced hate crime policing. A study by the House of Commons Committee on Justice and H...
An Afghan minister in the Taliban-led administration was killed, along with six others, in an explosion on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s local media reported acting Refugees and Repatriation Minister Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani was killed inside his ministry building in the capital Kabul. Haqqani’s nephew, Anas Haqqani, told reporters the ...
The White House has reaffirmed its commitment to locating American journalist Austin Tice. He has been missing in Syria since 2012. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized that finding Tice is a “top priority” for the Biden administration. The U.S. is collaborating with Türkiye and other nations, though specifics re...
