ANKARA – The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to require the government to document Russian “war crimes” in Ukraine. The bill was passed by a vote of 418-7, with all the dissenters coming from the Republican Party, according to local media reports. Representative Liz Cheney later said she had voted no by […]
BERLIN – Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency intercepted communications that prove Russian forces deliberately targeted civilians in Ukraine, Der Spiegel magazine claimed. The BND has informed a parliamentary committee this week about its findings, including radio messages in which Russian soldiers and mercenaries talked about murd...
ANKARA – Australian authorities have released more asylum seekers from detention centers after nine years, a local human rights body said. The authorities released around 20 refugees from immigration Transit Accommodation across the country, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), a rights organization, said in a statement, adding these refu...
MOSCOW – Four large fuel bases were destroyed in Ukraine with high-precision weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “High-precision air- and sea-based missiles hit four fuel bases in area of the settlements of Mykolaiv, Zaporozhizhia, Kharkiv and Chuhuiv, from which fuel was supplied to the Ukrainian troops near Kharkiv, Mykol...
ISTANBUL – Afghanistan has finally received $32 million in humanitarian cash assistance. The 21st cash consignment of international humanitarian aid arrived in Kabul today and was transferred to the Afghanistan International Bank. Welcoming the assistance from the international community, the bank reiterated that the “provision of humanitarian...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday met with the newly-formed Yemen’s Presidential Council headed by Rashad al-Alimi. According to the Saudi official news agency SPA, bin Salman voiced hope that the new council will move Yemen from the state of war to the state of pea...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A new Museum of Islamic Civilizations is set to be inaugurated on Friday in Turkiye’s largest mosque by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nation’s president. The museum, located in Istanbul’s Grand Camlica Mosque Complex and constructed in a closed area of 10,000 square meters (107,639 square feet), was prepared with works selected fro...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye killed three PKK members in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkish forces targeted two PKK members when they allegedly attempted to attack the Operation Peace Spring zone, and another one who opened harassing fire on the Operation Olive Branch area, the ministry said on Twitter. “We ...
RIYADH (AA) – Arab countries have welcomed the formation of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, headed by Rashad al-Alimi, as well as the urgent financial support provided by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Yemeni economy. Early on Thursday, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi delegated his powers to the n...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Calling NATO a “product of the Cold War,” China on Thursday urged non-NATO countries to practice caution in their attempts to develop relations with the military alliance. “NATO is a product of the Cold War and should have become history long ago,” said Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Zhao […]...
