JARABLUS, Syria (AA) – At least five civilians were injured in two separate car bomb blasts in the Jarablus district of northern Syria on Monday. According to preliminary information, terrorists detonated two vehicles filled with explosives simultaneously in Tal Ali and Salja villages in the district, which was liberated from ISIS/Daesh terror...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven suspected militants and two Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday amid a clash in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, the country’s military said. The clashes, the latest in a recent string of similar incidents, took place in the Ghulam Khan area located near the Afghan border, the...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian minor died Saturday of injuries he sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to local media. Mohamed Abdullah al-Saher, 16, was shot and injured before being detained by Israeli forces in Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, Friday evening. Al-Saher was transferr...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 rocked Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday, with no immediate reports of casualties or major infrastructural damage. According to Tehran University’s seismology department, the earthquake struck at around 8:07 am local time at a depth of 22 km. The epicenter of the e...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The death toll of migrants who died trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla rose to 27 on Saturday, according to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). Around 2,000 migrants, many from Sudan, tried to cross the militarized border fence on Friday. At first, five people […]
ANKARA (AA) – There must be unity, harmony and solidarity among NATO allies against common security and terrorist threats, Türkiye’s Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said in a phone call with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday. Along with bilateral political and economic ties, the officials held discussions on ...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP) Lebanon’s lawmakers designated incumbent Prime Minister Najib Mikati to form a new government Thursday, more than a month after parliamentary elections that yielded no clear majority. The 66-year-old billionaire, who had been widely expected to keep his job, secured 54 votes during parliamentary consultation...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – China has approved a $2.3 billion loan to prop up Pakistan’s depleting foreign reserves with cash inflow expected within a couple of days. The loan facility agreement was inked between Islamabad and a consortium of Chinese banks, Pakistan’s Finance Miftah Ismail said on Twitter on Wednesday. “The Chin...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s Victoria state has banned the display of the Nazi swastika. Anyone displaying it in public will face monetary penalty or jail, or both. The Parliament of Victoria passed the Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Symbol Prohibition) Bill 2022 on Tuesday, which “makes it a criminal offense for a person to intenti...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Nine Yemeni soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in war-torn Yemen, according to the military on Wednesday. Unidentified gunmen attacked a military vehicle east of Zinjibar, the provincial capital of the southern Abyan province, killing three soldiers, the army-run Presidential Protection Brigades said in a statemen...
