ABU DHABI (AA) — Two people were killed on Sunday when a light aircraft crashed into the sea in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The crash took place off the coast of Ras al-Khaimah emirate, killing its pilot and co-pilot, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement cited by the state news […]
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, has died at the age of 100. He was President from 1977 to 1981. Carter was the oldest living former president. It was during his presidency that former USSR invaded Afghanistan. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his post-presidency humanitarian work. Carter spent his last […]
ANKARA (AA) – South Korean authorities declared 177 passengers and crew dead, two missing, and two rescued after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday. Earlier, officials of the Jeolla Fire Department, while briefing passengers’ families at the airport, said that “out of the 181 passengers, most are presumed dead,...
DAMASCUS / BEIRUT (AA) — At least 70 officers of Syria’s deposed Assad regime who had fled to Lebanon have reportedly been handed over to Syria’s new administration. “The army on Saturday handed over to the Syrian Military Operations Directorate approximately 70 Syrian nationals, including officers of various ranks from the f...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A private Israeli broadcaster, in an investigative report aired late Saturday, said a bomb was planted in Ismail Haniyeh’s room in his Tehran residence. Haniyeh was killed inside his residence during a visit to Tehran on July 31. The assassination was carried out with a “precision bomb” placed inside Haniyeh&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – More than 112,000 Syrians who disappeared under the Baath regime remain unaccounted for, with evidence suggesting many were killed in detention, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) states. The scale of torture and extrajudicial executions in Syrian prisons has been increasingly revealed following the collapse of the 61-y...
ISTANBUL (AA) — A populous western German state will open the country’s first anti-Muslim racism reporting center in spring 2025, local media reported. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to more than 1.7 million Muslims, will establish the center, called MEDAR, to document and report attacks and crimes targeting Muslims. The center, whi...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A 20-day-old baby died on Sunday due to severe cold and a lack of heating in refugee tents in the central Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said. The infant, Jumaa al-Batran, “passed away due to the intense cold” in Deir al-Balah city, the ministry explained in a statement. “His twin […]
WASHINGTON (AA) — The head of the US-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) alleges that former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden are complicit in the crimes against humanity committed by the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. “It is a shame that both the Obama administration officials and the Biden administration off...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Donald Trump’s proposal to automatically grant green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from a US college has sparked controversy. “What I want to do, and what I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be […]
