GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. Zakaria Baker of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAEC) in Gaza said the three fishermen were taken into custody while fishing off the coast of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. […]
BURSA, Turkiye – A trainer plane crashed in a residential area in Turkiye’s northwestern Bursa province on Monday April 25. The flight instructor and trainee pilot were killed in the accident. The single-engine aircraft came down in an area with multiple residential buildings, but there were no reports of any casualties on the ground. Firefigh...
ANKARA – At least three PKK fighters were ‘neutralized’ in Turkiye’s southeastern Sirnak region as part of the country’s Eren Abluka-5 (Blockade) operation, according to the Turkish interior minister. Suleyman Soylu said in a tweet the operation to ‘neutralize’ the terrorists was carried out jointly by...
ANKARA – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha has slammed Israeli violations in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, saying the site is only for Muslims. The Al-Aqsa Mosque “is a place of worship purely for Muslims alone,” Taha said during an OIC extraordinary meeting in Je...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Monday it had arrested a Palestinian armed cell, including a mother of four, in the West Bank city of Jenin. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, said the Shin Bet internal security agency arrested seven Palestinians affiliated with the Islamic Jihad group in Jenin. He said [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish military forces in an operation in northern Syria on Monday killed at least 13 PKK fighters who were allegedly preparing to strike regions that were cleared of terrorism through Turkiye’s counter-terrorism campaigns. The National Defense Ministry said in a tweet that the “terrorists” were preparing to ta...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday criticized US President Joe Biden’s recent statements on the events of 1915, calling them ahistorical and based on misinformation. “The US president should learn and know history very well,” Erdogan told reporters in the capital Ankara after a Cabinet meeting. “We canno...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that they were targeting a location inside Lebanon with artillery shells in retaliation for rocket fire. “In response to the projectile launched from Lebanon into northern Israel earlier tonight, IDF Artillery forces are currently targeting the source of the launch in Leb...
For the 3rd year in a row, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF has asked the US government to designate India as a “country of particular concern” of CPC. The CPC designation is used for nations that engage in egregious violations of religious freedom. This year, USCIRF also called for it […]...
On Thursday, the Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan banned TikTok as part of a drive to block “immoral” content. Inamullah Samangani, deputy spokesperson of the interim administration said on Twitter the social media app “misleads the younger generation,” The popular South Korean PUBG PUB JEE battle game has also been blocked, he sa...
