TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has dismissed an agreement between Gulf neighbors Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to develop an offshore gas field as “illegal”, saying it must be included as one of the parties. Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the Durra/Arash gas field — located in the interlocking marine region between Kuwait and Ira...
SANAA, Yemen – Around 190,000 migrants in war-torn Yemen are in “dire” need of assistance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned. “More than 4 million people who have fled their homes in search of safety, and some 190,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa, are in dire need of assistance” IOM said in […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set to participate in a six-party summit in Israel, Israeli media reported on Saturday. The KAN news channel said Shoukry, who will arrive in Israel on Sunday, will join his counterparts from the US, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Israel in the summit. […]...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – West African leaders met Friday to examine the political situation in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, issuing warnings for failure to restore constitutional order following recent coups in the three countries. At an extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional b...
ANKARA – The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have endorsed the appointment of a special envoy for Africa. Meeting on March 22-23 in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers passed a resolution endorsing the bloc’s appointing Nassirou Bako Arifari as special envoy, the 57-nation Musli...
ANKARA – Turkish forces “neutralized” two YPG/PKK fighters in Syria and Iraq, the National Defense Ministry announced. One fighter was ‘neutralized’ during an attempt to infiltrate the Operation Euphrates Shield zone in northern Syria, while the other was targeted in the Operation Pence-Yildirim area in northern Iraq, the ministry ...
WASHINGTON – The UN General Assembly has once again voted to denounce its war on Ukraine and called for an immediate end. A total of 140 nations voted to censure Russia after one day of debate, with one less nation voting to do so compared to an earlier vote on March 2. As with the […]
WASHINGTON – North Korea’s launch of an apparent long-range ballistic missile risks “significant escalation of tensions in the region,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. The UN chief strongly condemned the launch. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement “another breach of the DPRK’s announ...
BERLIN – The G7 group of the world’s major economic powers has warned Russia against the use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine. “We warn against any threat of the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons or related materials,” the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US said [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Two al Shabaab fighters were killed and at least three police officers wounded in an al-Shabaab attack on the international airport in the capital Mogadishu. The attackers used small weapons and hand grenades as they tried to infiltrate the Aden Adde International Airport. “They tried to force their way into the airp...
