JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith, his office said. “The governor was detained by the occupation intelligence [service] from his home,” in the town of Silwan in East Jerusalem, the governor’s office said in a statement. The Israeli police did not explain the reasons for the arrest. ...
ANKARA – Ukraine has said that some 18,300 Russian soldiers have been killed in the country as the war enters its 40th day. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has said the Russian army lost 147 aircraft, 134 helicopters and 647 tanks. At least 1,844 Russian armored vehicles, 330 artillery systems, 107 rocket […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish military killed four PKK members in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday. Turkish fire support units targeted the “terrorists after they opened harassing fire” on the Operation Peace Spring zone, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of operations across ...
BAGHDAD (AA) – A mass grave believed to be of opponents of the Saddam Hussein regime was found in Iraq’s southern Najaf province, local authorities said on Monday. “The grave was discovered near one of the complexes under construction in Najaf,” the Najaf governor’s office said in a statement. It added that the grave is […]
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Three children were killed on Monday in an attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Iran-affiliated terror groups, in violation of a truce in Syria’s northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone, according to civil defense forces. Regime forces and allied Iranian militias shelled the village of Maarat Naasan in northwestern Idlib ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – One person was killed and 24 others were injured in an explosion at an entertainment venue in Baku, Azerbaijan Health Ministry said Saturday. The explosion and resulting fire broke out in a nightclub on Terlan Aliyarbeyov Street in central Baku at about 3 a.m. local time, said the ministry. It noted […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 14 people were killed in a rockslide in the northwest of Oman, the country’s civil defense authority said on Sunday. The Civil Defense and Ambulance Authority (CDAA) said in a statement five workers trapped in the quarry were rescued. The CDAA, however, did not give details about the nationalities of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. A ministry statement said the two youths aged 17 and 23 were gunned down when Israeli forces raided the city. Fifteen other Palestinians were injured, including three seriously, [&...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – At least eight Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush in the Bandiagara region, the country’s military announced on Wednesday. The Malian army said in a statement that the soldiers patrolling between the Songoiba and Yaokanda districts in the Bandiagara region were ambushed by unidentified persons. Mali has been b...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
