ANKARA (AA): A blast inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern province killed at least 15 people and injured 50 others on Thursday. The blast occurred at a mosque in Faizabad, the capital city of Badakhshan province, where Taliban officials had gathered for condolence prayers for a slain deputy governor, who was killed in a blast [&hell...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): The speaker of Israel’s Knesset (parliament), Amir Ohana, said Thursday he is confident Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region. “The Sahara is Moroccan. I am happy. Today is a great day, and King Mohammed VI is a great man,” Ohana said...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): The United States pledged $148 million on Thursday for stabilisation efforts in Iraq and Syria as it joined Saudi Arabia in urging Western states to repatriate foreign Islamic State group fighters and their relatives. The announcement was made at a ministerial meeting of the international coalition against IS in Riy...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Sudanese army soldiers and paramilitaries fought for control of a military facility Thursday in Khartoum where a fire raged at an oil and gas facility, witnesses said. The battles came a day after the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced in a statement they had wrestled “full control” of...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): The United States remains committed to its Gulf Arab partners, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Gulf diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, at a time of rapidly shifting regional alliances. Blinken spoke during a Gulf Cooperation Council ministerial meeting in the capital Riyadh following talks with Saudi ...
TORONTO (AA): US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met Wednesday with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh where they discussed a range of bilateral, regional and global issues, according to the State Department “Secretary Blinken and the Foreign Minister resolved to continue to work together to counter terrorism, to suppo...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled an intermediate range ballistic missile Tuesday capable of travelling at hypersonic speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound, state television reported. President Ebrahim Raisi hailed the new missile’s hypersonic capability, saying it would boost Iran’s “power ...
Faizabad, Afghanistan (AFP): The acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Security has improved dramatically since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, ousting the US-...
MOSCOW (AA): Explosions at the Kakhovka dam near Kherson, southern Ukraine, unleashed floodwaters on Tuesday, as both Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of destruction. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Twitter said the destruction of the dam “confirms for the whole world that they (Russian forces) must be expelled from every co...
Washington, United States (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel was in Washington’s security interests. “The United States has a real national security interest in promoting normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. We believe we can and indee...
