ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump on Friday appointed Morgan Ortagus as deputy special presidential envoy for Middle East peace. Ortagus is set to serve as deputy to real estate executive Steven Witkoff, whom Trump appointed in November as special envoy to the Middle East. “She will hopefully be an asset to Steve, a grea...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Matthew Livelsberger, the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion, participated in a military-themed reality competition on the History Channel, according to a media report. He appeared on “The Ultimate Soldier Challenge,” 12 years ago, the Inside Edition television newsmagazine reported. Livelsberger and his ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A shooting in Washington D. C. on Friday resulted in multiple injuries, according to media reports. Emergency crews responded to northwest Washington D. C. following the shooting that left four or five people wounded, said initial reports. Two men with gunshot wounds arrived at a hospital. One is suspected to be involved [&hell...
DAMASCUS (AA) – Israel has bombed Syrian army positions in the Al-Safira area southeast of Aleppo city. An air defense base and warehouse were targeted, said local sources. A number of people in the area were killed and injured in around 10 airstrikes, according to preliminary reports. While Israeli soldiers were conducting a landing ope...
WASHINGTON (AA) – ISIS and other violent groups will not find a “safe harbor” in the US, President Joe Biden said following deadly New Year’s Day attacks. “We’re going to continue to relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organizations where they are, and they’ll find no safe harbor here,” Biden ...
LONDON (AA) – US business magnate and X owner Elon Musk is facing backlash from British parliamentarians for demanding the release of far-right figure Tommy Robinson from prison. Musk’s controversial statement, made Thursday morning on his social media platform, urged authorities to “free Tommy Robinson” and called for “a new election in Brita...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Hamas has urged the Fatah movement to respond positively to the efforts aimed at establishing a “Community Support Committee” to manage the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Hamas said it had recently received and considered “numerous national initiatives and proposals within the framework of efforts to ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli attack in the central Gaza Strip, the Gaza government media office said. In a statement, the media office said Palestinian photojournalist Omar Salah Al-Derawi was killed in an Israeli bombing targeting his home in the Al-Zawaida area, central Gaza, killin...
TEHRAN (AA) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Tehran in order to protest the execution of six Iranian nationals convicted of drug trafficking in the kingdom. Iran delivered a formal protest note to the Saudi ambassador to Tehran, Abdullah bin Saud Al-Anzi, expressing its strong opposition to the execut...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Researchers have discovered that a low-cost blood pressure medication may effectively treat a noncancerous but invasive brain tumor. Craniopharyngioma is a rare, noncancerous brain tumor near the pituitary gland and hypothalamus. Because it affects important brain areas, it can cause hormone problems, vision issues, and c...
