Ramallah, Palestinian Territories — AFP A Saudi envoy on a rare visit to the Israeli occupied West Bank has pledged that the Palestinian cause will be “a cornerstone” of any normalisation deal the oil-rich kingdom may strike with Israel. The delegation headed by Nayef al-Sudairi was Saudi Arabia’s first in three decades...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo police on Monday seized a huge quantity of heavy weapons and ammunition from a village in the country’s north, which had seen clashes between law enforcement and armed ethnic Serbs since Sunday. The police later displayed heavy weapons, vehicles, and ammunition seized during the day-long clashes with the armed Se...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Three of the armed ethnic Serbs who attacked police in northern Kosovo on Sunday morning have been killed and several others injured have been detained, Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Sunday. “What we have learned so far, as we thought before, is that it is a professional terrorist/criminal structure [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 70 al-Shabaab men were killed Sunday in a military operation conducted by the Somali National Army backed by local militias in north-central Mudug province. The joint force raided al-Shabaab hideouts and gathering places in the town of Aad. Ringleaders of the group were among those were killed in the [&...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least 10 people were killed in an attack carried out by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria, a report said Sunday. Members of the terrorist organization attacked workers in fields in the Mafa local government area of Borno state, said the Punch newspaper. Nine other people were abducted. Boko Haram, […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Iran on Friday announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Djibouti after a seven-year hiatus caused by the East African country’s backing for Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric in 2016. Iran and Djibouti agreed to restore diplomatic ties late Thursday during a meeting between Ir...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The Libyan unity government announced on Friday that search and rescue teams recovered 245 bodies in a single day from the flood-affected city of Derna. Speaking to Anadolu, Malik Marseet, a spokesman for the Emergency Medicine and Support Center, said that the bodies were discovered at various coastal locations in ...
Derna, Libya – AFP Libya’s flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from the coastal city after the Mediterranean Storm Daniel lashed the ar...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The main accused in an attack on a popular shrine in southern Iran’s Shiraz city has been sentenced to death while two others have been handed a five-year jail term each. Judiciary-affiliated Mizan News cited the chief justice of southern Fars province as saying that the main accused Rahman Ela Norozaf, […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistan Army on Thursday killed eight militants in two separate operations in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Five terrorists and their “facilitators” were also arrested during the operations, the military said in a statement. In the first operation in the Bannu district, six terrorists w...
