KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Gunmen killed at least four miners and injured three others in southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials and local media reported. The attack, the latest in a series of similar ambushes, occurred in the remote Harnai district of southwestern Balochistan province, a hub of coalmines located some 169 kilometers (105 miles)...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) – An Arab parliamentary delegation visited the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Sunday to show solidarity with the victims of the Feb. 6 earthquakes that killed thousands in Syria and Türkiye. The visit was the first since 2011 when Syria’s membership in the Cairo-based Arab League was suspended amid a deadly regime crackdown ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israelis were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the military. A military statement said an Israeli vehicle came under fire in the town of Huwara in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces sealed off the area and launched a hunt for the attacker, the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran will be supplying defense, radar and electronic warfare equipment to Syria, including the indigenously built 15-Khordad missile system, state media said Friday. A video broadcast on state TV revealed some parts of the agreement reached between the defense officials of the two countries in Tehran earlier this week. A de...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Thursday that it has transferred two detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to Pakistan. “The Department of Defense announced today the repatriations of Abdul Rabbani and Mohammed Rabbani from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Pakistan,” it said in a statement. The two men are bro...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Thursday that the Omani authorities had agreed to allow Israeli civil flights to use the Gulf country’s airspace. A Foreign Ministry statement said the move came after months of talks with Oman as flying through the Omani airspace will shorten the duration of the Israeli flights to Asian destinations by […]...
ISTANBUL (AA/AFP) – Israel on Thursday launched airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired from the territory into Israel, according to local media based on Israeli statements. Citing the army Spokesperson Unit, the Jerusalem Post daily reported that the Israeli army hit a facility for weapons manufacturing belonging to P...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A general strike on Thursday paralyzed all aspects of life in the West Bank to mourn the killing of 11 Palestinians in an Israeli military operation on Wednesday, in Nablus. “The comprehensive strike is spreading across all governorates of the West Bank, and it is a form of resistance in the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh urged the European Union on Wednesday to end its policy that encourages Israel to continue its attacks. Shtayyeh received the Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Palestine, Margrete Auken, at his office in Ramallah, according to a statement by the Prim...
BEIJING (AA) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 jolted the China-Tajikistan border early Thursday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). CENC said the quake occurred near the border between the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China and the mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in easter...
