JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Monday for yet another official visit. Herzog was welcomed at the airport by Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. On Sunday, the Israeli president had visited Bahrain — his first state visit to ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – An Israeli court on Sunday rejected a petition to release Nael al-Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the Ofer Military Court decided to maintain a life sentence against the Palestinian detainee citing a...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Bahrain on Sunday — his first state visit to the Gulf nation since establishing diplomatic relations in 2020. Herzog was welcomed upon arrival at the airport by Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani. Shortly after arrival, the Israeli president held talks with Bah...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Four Iranians accused of intelligence cooperation with Israel were executed on Sunday, less than a week after Iran’s apex court upheld their death penalty. Mizan News, affiliated with the country’s judiciary, announced that the sentences were carried out in the wee hours of the morning. The individuals wer...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese civilian and military rivals will sign a political framework agreement Monday, the Sudanese Sovereign Council said Friday. The agreement will include the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the Popular Congress Party (PCP), Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the rebel coalition of the Sudanese Revolution...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – A desecrated Quran was left Friday near the entrance to a mosque in Stockholm in an Islamophobic attack. Images shared by the Stockholm Mosque show the damaged holy book of the Muslims chained up and hanging from an iron railing outside the mosque. The mosque said in a statement that it and […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires to Afghanistan Ubaid Ur Rehman Nizamani survived an attack on the country’s embassy in Kabul on Friday, officials said. “The compound of the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul came under attack today targeting Head of Mission, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani. By the grace of Allah Almigh...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The US has designated four senior members of al-Qaeda in South Asia and Afghanistan, as well as the Pakistani Taliban, as “global terrorists.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday Washington is committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by “terrorist grou...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye gets support when there is an operation against ISIS but not in operations against the PKK, the spokesman for the Justice and Development (AK) Party said Thursday. Omer Celik emphasized during a televised interview that if counter-terrorism operations were not carried out on Türkiye’s border, terrorist struc...
Salé, Morocco (AFP): Ecstatic Moroccans celebrated on Thursday after their team qualified for the knockout stages of the World Cup for the first time since 1986. “We’ve waited 36 years,” one fan cried after the Atlas Lions beat Canada 2-1 to storm into the round of 16 as winners of their group. In 1986, the […]
