SANAA, Yemen (AA) – United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg has said he is seeking a truce in Yemen during the fasting month of Ramadan, due to start early next month. Grundberg met Saturday with Houthi chief negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam and Omani officials “to discuss ongoing UN consultations and efforts to address the dire humani...
WASHINGTON – The US has denied a report that said three American troops were killed in eastern Ukraine. “There is wide reporting that there were three U.S. soldiers who were killed in Donbas, which is patently false and a deliberate fabrication. There are no US soldiers in Ukraine,” State Department principal deputy spokeswom...
KHARTOUM, Sudan –At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the violence between March 5 and 12 in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ibrahim Adam Osman, a member of the local Doctors Committee, said hundreds were admitted into Elgenena hospital since the violence started. “What we saw is a massacre with brutal attacks against [&hel...
WASHINGTON – According to a statement issued by the White House, US President Joe Biden laid out to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the consequences Beijing will face if it “materially supports” Russia’s war in Ukraine. According to the statement, Biden outlined “our efforts to prevent and then respond to the...
Demonstrators gather outside the BBC Broadcasting House ahead of a march to oppose racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and fascism, and to express support for refugees as part of United Nations Anti-Racism Day in London, United Kingdom on March 19, 2022. The campaigners call for action to eradicate institutional racism in response to police str...
ANKARA (AA) – A violent attack took place in a local mosque in one of Canada’s populated cities, Mississauga, during early Saturday. Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Imam Ibrahim Hindy said the worshipers heard a noise of a man emptying pepper spray all over them as they were praying the dawn prayer. “They turned aroun...
WASHINGTON – According to US Democrats, elevated gas prices are the result of the war imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the senior-most Democrat in the House of Representatives, said the party is doing “everything” it can to “minimize the Putin price hike at home.” Earlier, the Bid...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Another American has died as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday. Blinken did not identify the victim, nor did he provide any circumstances that led to the death. That comes after journalist Brent Renaud was killed on Sunday. At least two other American [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye killed three PKK fighters near the country’s border in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkish forces targeted three PKK “terrorists” who attempted to attack the zone of Operation Euphrates Shield, an anti-terrorist military operation, the ministry said. Since 2016, ...
81 mass graves of Yazidis found in Iraq’s Sinjar since 2014: Official ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – A total of 81 mass graves of Yazidis have been found in Sinjar district in northern Iraq since 2014, said a Kurdish official on Thursday. Baravan Hamdi, Deputy Minister of the Martyrs in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), said […]
