KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four people were killed in an attack on a convoy of a ruling party lawmaker in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday evening, police and local media reported. Liaquat Ali, a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, was attacked in the remote district of Dir, which borders [&hell...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned of a “heavy price” for ongoing Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami made the warning in a meeting with Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah in Tehran on Saturday. Nakhalah, who arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, held [...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa strongly condemned on Saturday the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip, which continued for a second day, killing 24, including a five years old. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said it is concerned that Israeli military statements indicate that the operation would “take a ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has brazenly threatened to target leaders of Islamic Jihad living in Iran, Lebanon and Syria. Israeli warplanes started airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday, citing “imminent threat of attack” by Islamic Jihad – a claim that the Palestinian resistance group has unequivocally denied....
ISTANBUL (AA) – A total of 62,145 briquette houses have been built in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, the Turkish interior minister said on Saturday. “62,145 briquette houses have been completed in Idlib for the honorable, voluntary, safe return of our Syrian brothers,” Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter. Upon the instructions of Turk...
N’Djamena, Chad – (AFP): The head of Chad’s ruling junta has flown off to Qatar to seal a peace deal with rebels, a key step in plans to restore civilian rule. General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s plane took off from N’Djamena airport bound for Qatar, according to a presidential statement. Deby and opposition groups...
PARIS (AA) – A French court has suspended the expulsion of an imam accused by the Interior Ministry of disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-gender equality messages. In its decision, the administrative court of Paris said the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan national born in France, would constitute a “disproportionate attack” on...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has called for restraint “from all sides” to prevent more casualties in the Israel-occupied Gaza Strip. “The EU calls for maximum restraint on all sides in order to avoid a further escalation and further casualties,” in and around Gaza, the lead spokesperson of the bloc’s d...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan on Saturday “strongly” condemned the latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, which left at least 10 Palestinians dead. “Martyrdom of 10 Palestinians including a five-year old girl in Gaza is latest act of Israeli terrorism. If impunity and barbarism had a face, it would have been that of Isr...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, has condemned Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. At least 11 Palestinians were killed and 80 others injured when the Israeli army launched airstrikes on the seaside territory on Friday. “Al-Azhar denounces this unreasonable and unacceptable globa...
