ERBIL, Iraq – Six rockets have hit the Khabat district of Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). The KRG’s anti-terror unit confirmed the incident in a statement and said there were no casualties or damage. The rockets were fired from the Bartella town in the Al-Hamdaniya district of Mosul.
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Many people were feared to be trapped under the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed in Nigeria’s Lagos state on Sunday night. The incident occurred on Ibadan Street in the Ebute Metta neighborhood of Lagos. Casualty figures are unknown as search and rescue operations are ongoing. Personnel of the Lagos Sta...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council on Thursday urged the government to probe attacks against Muslims in the northern city of Gondar. The call for an immediate investigation into the deadly attacks came at a news conference by Hajji Mufti Omer Idriss, president of the Ethiopian Islamic body, amid uproar [...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish armed forces killed a dozen PKK fighters in northern Syria as they were preparing to attack areas cleared by Turkiye’s military operations, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. “Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) continue to destroy terror nests in northern Syria,” the ministry said in a statement, [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Lawmakers in Somalia’s lower house of parliament chose Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as its new speaker early Thursday after a much anticipated election held inside the heavily protected Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu. Over 250 parliamentarians took part in the election following severa...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria threatened Wednesday to cut off gas supplies to Spain if any of the gas winds up in a location other than specified by the contract. Spain’s Energy Ministry earlier confirmed that it planned to ship gas to Morocco but noted that none of that gas would be of Algerian origin. […]
PARIS (AA) – Dozens of irregular migrants, including families with children, who sought a better life by embarking on a perilous journey and crossing multiple countries to reach France, have been living in deplorable conditions in a parking lot in a Paris suburb for months. Nearly 200 irregular migrants from Iran, Morocco, and notably Afghanis...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Mali’s public prosecutor has announced the launch of an investigation into a mass grave discovered near the camp formerly occupied by French forces in Gossi, north of Mali. On Wednesday April 27, the Malian army claimed to have discovered a mass grave near a military base left by the French army in […]
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 40 German diplomats persona non grata in a retaliatory move amid continued diplomatic fallout from the two-month-old war in Ukraine. “On April 25, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Geza Andreas von Geyr was summoned to the Russian F...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that they were targeting a location inside Lebanon with artillery shells in retaliation for rocket fire. “In response to the projectile launched from Lebanon into northern Israel earlier tonight, IDF Artillery forces are currently targeting the source of the launch in Leb...
