Johannesburg, South Africa – AFP BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the “historic” admission of six new countries from next year as the club seeks to reshape the Western-led global order and expand its geopolitical influence. The BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — agreed at their annual summi...
ANKARA (AA) – US Central Forces Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla visited the al-Hol and al-Roj camps of displaced people in Syria, where the YPG/PKK group holds the families of ISIS members. CENTCOM said in a written statement that the visit took place on August 21. The visit involved “interactions with camp administrators as well […...
Kasur, Pakistan — AFP Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, emergency services have said. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. Emergency services have been working t...
Ain Shib, Syria – AFP At least two civilians were killed when Russian air strikes hit an abandoned water pumping station in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, rescuers said Wednesday, amid a recent uptick in attacks by Damascus ally Moscow. Two strikes late Tuesday near Ain Shib, west of the city of Idlib, hit the facility where [&helli...
Zababdeh, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Meanwhile, in the southern West Bank, troops made two arrests in the deadly Monday shooting of a settler near the city of Hebron. “Othman Mohammed Abu Khurog, 17, di...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Six Pakistani army troops and four suspected militants were killed in a clash in a northwestern region near the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, the army said. The clash took place in the restive South Waziristan tribal district, said a statement from the army’s mouthpiece, Inter Services Public Relations. Two...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani army airdropped food and water to the stranded students in a cable car dangling over a ravine in northwestern Pakistan as rescuers are struggling to rescue the trapped people. At least seven schoolchildren and an adult in northwestern Pakistan were stranded in the air at 8 a.m. local time […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP At least eight fighters were killed by Russian air strikes early Monday targeting a rebel base in Syria’s northwest, a war monitor said. “Russian warplanes carried out air strikes on the western outskirts of Idlib city, targeting a military base belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)… killing at l...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 77 healthcare workers were injured, and 30 ambulances got damaged in occupied Palestinian territories in the first seven months of 2023, a UN official said on Saturday. In a statement marking World Humanitarian Day, Lynn Hastings, humanitarian coordinator for occupied Palestinian territory, said thousands of R...
Niamey, Niger – AFP Niger’s new military ruler said Saturday a transition of power would not go beyond three years, and warned that any attack on the country would not be easy for those involved. “Our ambition is not to confiscate power,” General Abdourahamane Tiani said in a televised address. Any transition of power &...
