LONDON (AA) – Health authorities in Argentina on Wednesday confirmed the country’s first case of the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.5. The ANLIS/Malbrán Institute detected the presence of the subvariant in a person who had returned from an international trip. According to local daily Infobae, the case was detected after the anal...
Idlib, Syria – (AFP) A US drone strike in northwestern Syria killed a Yemeni leader of a local extremist group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, the US military and a Syrian war monitor said. The strike, carried out on Monday just before midnight (2100 GMT) on the eastern edge of the city of Idlib, took out a […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq where the Turkish army launched Operation Claw-Lock to rid the area of terror elements, the National Defense Ministry has said. Abdullah Bayram was killed after PKK fighters opened fire in the operation zone, according to the ministry. The ministry expressed condolences to Bayra...
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...
