WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has transferred former Guantanamo Bay detainee Majid Khan to the small Central American nation of Belize, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Khan pleaded guilty in a military court in 2012 to terrorism offenses related to his role as an al-Qaeda courier and was sentenced to more than 10 years of confinement. [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives voted along party lines Thursday to remove one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from her seat on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The 218-211 vote saw all Democrats vote in opposition to removing Ilhan Omar from the panel. Nearly all of the chamber’s [&hel...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories (AFP): Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno opened his country’s first embassy in Israel on Thursday, four years after the countries renewed ties following a decades-long rupture, an Israeli statement said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office called the embassy’s inaugu...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – With the death toll from Monday’s bombing of a mosque in northwest Pakistan rising to 102, the police have claimed they are “closing in” on the terrorist network involved, revealing that the suspected bomber was in police uniform. Meanwhile, health officials confirmed that another injured victim had s...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli warplanes struck Gaza on Thursday, drawing retaliatory rocket fire from Palestinian resistance groups. Israel claimed the pre-dawn strikes were in “response to an earlier rocket launch.” Israel said it targeted military training camps used by Hamas. “(Hamas) will face the cons...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The US has begun mediation to stop the Israeli escalation in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian official. “The American mediation is working to identify the core issues related to unilateral Israeli measures,”Ahmed Majdalani, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executiv...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon’s central bank announced Wednesday that it has set a new exchange rate for the country’s currency — 15,000 lira against one US dollar — a massive devaluation from the old rate of 1,507 lira. According to the central bank, the new exchange rate is effective from Wednesday. However, ac...
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – Three suspected al-Qaeda members have been killed in a US drone strike in central Yemen’s Marib province, a local official said on Tuesday. A drone struck a vehicle carrying three people near a fuel station in Wadi Ubaidah district in Marib province, the official told Anadolu on condition of anonymity because […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from Monday’s suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 95, with police announcing the completion of an intense rescue operation. Moazzam Jah Ansari, the police chief of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capit...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday vowed to push for death penalty by the electric chair for Palestinians “involved in attacks against Israelis.” “Anyone who murders, harms and slaughters civilians should be sent to the electric chair,” Ben-Gvir said during a meeting of his fa...
