ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye will continue to stand by the Palestinian people for independent and sovereign Palestine, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye will pursue normalized ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban interim government on Tuesday signed a deal to hand over the country’s four key airports to a state-run United Arab Emirates company. Under the deal, the control and management of four international airports – Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif – will be handed over to the UAE aviation company,...
ANKARA (AA) – Three Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK fighters in northern Iraq, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry alleged on Tuesday. The soldiers were killed while performing their duties as Turkiye launched its latest operation dubbed Claw-Lock in northern Iraq. Four other soldiers were also injured in the attack. Turkiye al...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces on Tuesday demolished a mosque in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities. Israeli forces cited lack of construction permit for razing the mosque in al-Ramadin community near Qalqilya city, the Waqf Ministry said in a statement. Palestinian Waqf Minister Hatem al-Bakri termed ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Two pilots were killed when an F-7 fighter jet crashed near Isfahan province in central Iran on Tuesday, according to state media. The incident took place at around 8:10 a.m. local time (0340GMT) when the aircraft, which had taken off from Shahid Babaei Airbase in Isfahan, crashed in Anarak, nearly 200 […]
Baghdad, Iraq – AFP Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm — the ninth since mid-April — hit the country, authorities said. The capital Baghdad was enveloped in a giant dust cloud that left usually traffic-choked streets largely deserted. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi ordere...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday dispersed Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron who were protesting against the violation of the sanctity of the Ibrahimi Mosque by the occupation authorities. Eyewitnesses said dozens of Palestinians tried to reach the mosque but Israeli forces closed the iron gates leading to...
BAGHDAD (AA) – At least six people were killed in an attack carried out by Daesh/ISIS in northern Iraq, officials said late Monday. The terrorist group targeted residents of Taza Khurmatu district south of the city of Kirkuk, where the majority of Turkmen live, the government-affiliated Security Media Network said in a statement. An operation ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Monday that Baku agreed with Armenia on the opening of the Zangezur corridor, including the construction of both railways and highways. In a statement, Azerbaijan’s Presidency said Aliyev spoke over the phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and updated him on a trilat...
