An Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has urged the U.N. Security Council to implement a binding resolution for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and urgent humanitarian aid. The summit, attended by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. The final statement pr...
Israel has killed as many as 25 Palestinians since dawn Tuesday in an airstrike targeting a crowded area in the city of Deir el-Balah. The situation in Beit Hanoon remains dire as the area has been under siege for more than 40 days. Families displaced by Israel’s ongoing violence have sought refuge in schools and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two sources. The appointment places Noem in charge of an agency central to Trump’s immigration and border security agenda, which includes plans for mass dep...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas claimed Tuesday to have killed and injured 10 Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the northern Gaza town of Jabalia. The group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said its fighters detonated a house in Al-Qasaseeb area as Israeli soldiers moved into the building. It confirmed [&hel...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani police on Tuesday said they arrested a policeman who was behind the deadliest attack on police in northwestern Peshawar city in 2023, in which over 100 people were killed and 250 others injured. Speaking to reporters in Peshawar, provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said police constable Muhammad Wali ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Democratic Party lost a lot of votes in last week’s presidential election by focusing on such issues as gender ideology, global warming and abortion instead of the basic “kitchen table issues” of ordinary Americans, says a senior pollster. Brent Buchanan, the founder of Cygnal, a Washington, D.C.-based public opinion ...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Israeli fan groups were responsible for the violence surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv UEFA Europa League match in Amsterdam last week, said a senior member of an anti-Zionist Jewish group. In an interview with Anadolu, Anna Joseph, Leadership Council member of Erev Rav, a Jewish collective in the Netherlands, clarified th...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, according to a report published on Monday. Trump may still make a last-minute change, but he seems to have decided on Rubio, said The New York Times, citing three people familiar with his plans. Neither Rubio’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AA) – Palestine supporters gathered Monday in San Francisco to demand an end to US support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Waving Palestinian flags, they chanted “Free, Free Palestine!” They also held signs saying “Stop Arm$ for War Crime$,” “Not Another Bomb,” “Stop Arming Israel,...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint former congressman Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency. “He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, ...
