ANTALYA, Turkiye – Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister has said that he expects an agreement with Turkiye and Qatar on operating the Kabul airport. Amir Khan Muttaqi said that agreement had been secured on “a number of issues regarding the Kabul Airport.” However, a few outstanding issues still had to be resolved. Spe...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – The death toll from tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur region has risen to 35, the Committee of Doctors in West Darfur said. In a statement, it said it had counted 19 new fatalities from the violence in the Jebel Moon Mountains of West Darfur, taking the tally to 35 since last […]
PARIS (AA) – French security services saw a surge in the number of racist, xenophobic, and anti-religious offenses, the Interior Ministry has admitted. The analysis of the racist offenses was prepared by the ministry’s statistical service for internal security and released ahead of March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racia...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine’s president demanded the release Saturday of the mayor of Melitopol, calling his kidnapping a “crime against democracy.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Ivan Federov as “a mayor who bravely defends Ukraine and the members of his community” in a Telegram video. “This is obviously a sign of w...
NEW YORK (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a political solution to the civil war in Syria that began 11 years ago. The civil war began when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds of thousands of people have since been killed and millions more displaced, according to [...
ANKARA (AA) – The ISIS on Thursday confirmed that its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in Syria and named his successor. In an audio message, posted on Telegram channels linked to the terror group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi has been named the new leader of the terrorist group. On Feb. 3, US President [&hell...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed victory in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous province. The victory is significant for the ultranationalist Hindu party because UP has 20 percent Muslim population, more than the other provinces of the country. The party also retained power in the stat...
LONDON (AA) – The British army has confirmed that a number of its active soldiers have gone to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces. An unnamed spokesperson was quoted by Sky News as saying that they were “aware of a small number of individual soldiers who have disobeyed orders and gone absent without leave and […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – While denying possessing chemical or biological weapons “anywhere”, the US has warned Russia could use such weapons in Ukraine. In a series of tweets, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia falsely claimed that the US has biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development facilities in Ukraine, ...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has said that her country is not considering NATO membership for now. “The basis of the European security system is formed by the fact that each country implements its own security policy. So we created our own security system,” she added. Meanwhile, Finnish Prime Minister...
