ANKARA – Turkish forces have “neutralized” another 18 PKK fighters in the northern regions of Iraq and Syria, according to the National Defense Ministry. Ten PKK members were targeted in northern Iraq in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the ministry said. It also claimed that the Turkish soldiers seized numerous arms, ammunition, caves, and...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned that anger has built across the occupied territories over Israeli escalation coupled with international silence over the violations. “Palestine deserves to be a recognized state by the international community, and the Palestinian people deserve to live in...
WASHINGTON – An American woman has pleaded guilty to forming and leading an all-female ISIS militant battalion to fight on the group’s behalf in Syria, the Justice Department has announced. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted to having provided material support or resources to a foreign militant organization, and is scheduled to be s...
OVIEDO, Spain – The Spanish High Court has said that it has called the CEO of Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, Shalev Hulio, to testify as part of an investigation into the Pegasus hacking scandal. Judge Jose Luis Calama will personally travel to Israel to question Hulio, whose software was used to hack the […]
South Dakotans on Tuesday resoundingly defeated a Republican-authored constitutional amendment that would have raised the threshold for passage of most ballot initiatives from a simple majority to 60%, an effort motivated by GOP lawmakers’ desire to head off a Medicaid expansion vote set for November. Voters rejected the proposal, known ...
Progressives are arguing that Wall Street’s new prediction of worsening pain at the pump for U.S. consumers this summer underscores the need for Congress to pass Democratic lawmakers’ overwhelmingly popular bill to impose a windfall profits tax on Big Oil. According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, “oil prices will surge to $140...
Amazon’s lawyers filed a motion on Tuesday urging the National Labor Relations Board to bar the public—and potentially members of the press—from tuning in to a hearing next week at which the company is set to lay out its case for why the historic union victory at the JFK8 warehouse in New York should be overturned. […]
Polling by Data for Progress and the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found 55% of all respondents are “somewhat” or “very concerned” about the $813 billion in Pentagon funding requested by the Biden administration for FY 2023, up from $782 billion this year. However, only 32% of those surveyed—including 39% of D...
LONDON (AA) – The founder of a proscribed far-right terror group in Britain was jailed for 8.5 years on Tuesday. Alex Davies, the founder of National Action, was found guilty of terrorism charges last month. He was described as the “extremist’s extremist” at the court. Davies is the final member of the proscribed group who [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human right defender held under Tel Aviv’s administrative detention policy for another three months. “The Israeli authorities must immediately release Salah Hammouri,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a st...
