Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians rocked the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The violence sparked after a Palestinian stabbed a police officer in Israel before being shot dead. Israeli troops launched a fourth day of operations around Jenin after an assailant from the city shot and killed three people in a Tel […]
On Monday, Iran’s government questioned Washington’s resolve to reach an agreement restoring the 2015 nuclear deal. Former President Donald Trump canceled the deal in 2018 and re-imposed all US sanctions on Iran. Key sticking points remain unresolved after talks halted last month. Iran has been negotiating for a year with France, Germany, Bri...
On Monday, United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg began his first official visit to Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa. Grundberg’s arrival comes after an April 2 ceasefire that the country’s warring parties have accused each other of violating. The Swedish diplomat is scheduled to meet Huthi rebel officials during the visit. Grundberg’s of...
The Indian film “Beast” has been banned in Kuwait and Qatar due to its reportedly stereotypical depiction of Muslims as terrorists and its dialogues against Pakistan. The Tamil-language film, described as an action-comedy, stars Thalapathy Vijay and Pooja Hegde HEGDAY. Vijay plays a government intelligence agent stuck in a mall with terrorists...
U.S.-based civil rights, faith groups and advocates have condemned a federal commission being pressured to dilute its reporting on religious persecution in India. In a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF, these groups and individuals urged it to withstand pressure from U.S.-based Hindu nationalis...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was killed and dozens were injured in clashes with Israeli forces Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry identified the young man as Muhammad Hassan Assaf, 34, who was fatally shot in the chest by the Israeli army in the city of […]
Canada Post has released its fourth Eid stamp since 2017. It is among several annual stamp issues marking events of importance to Canada’s culturally diverse population. Eid festivals this year begin in early May and early July. They are celebrated by more than one million Muslims in Canada, and millions more worldwide. Other religious...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed three PKK members in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said on Twitter that PKK members, spotted in the Operation Claw-Tiger zone, were killed with fire support vehicles. Operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle began in border regions of northern Iraq in 2020 ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran is open to public sector investments from regional countries in nuclear energy, a senior official told Anadolu Agency. Pejman Shirmardi, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said Tehran welcomes public sector companies from countries in the region to enter the field. “Iran’s cap...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that “peaceful” settlement of the Kashmir dispute with neighboring India is “indispensable.” Thanking his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for felicitations on his election as premier, Shehbaz said that Islamabad desires “peaceful” and “cooperative”...
