ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday said that at least 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army said its Iron Dome air defense system intercepted 15 of the rockets fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel. The army added that it has closed its airspace to civilian flights in nort...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli settlers on Thursday forced their way into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. According to eyewitnesses, police were deployed in the courtyards of the compound to secure the settlers. Israeli authorities began restricting Palestinians under 40 years old from entering the site before the Musli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Top diplomats of Saudi Arabia and Iran met in China on Thursday, their first meeting in over seven years, said an official statement. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the capital Beijing on Thursday, a joint statement released by the two sides [&hell...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Scores of Israeli settlers on Wednesday forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Jerusalem Islamic Endowment Department said 165 Israeli settlers broke into the flashpoint site. According to eyewitnesses, the settlers mo...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israeli police arrested more than 350 people after clashes erupted inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque early Wednesday when officers entered to dislodge worshippers in a move denounced by the Palestinian movement Hamas. Palestinian fighters responded with rocket fire into Israel from the Hamas-ruled G...
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. Since 2015, Beijing has poured billions of dollars into Pakistan under an investment scheme known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Private firms h...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the B...
Damascus, Syria (AFP): Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike Tuesday, state media reported, the fourth such attack on government-held areas of the war-torn country in less than a week. “At 00:15 (2115 GMT Monday) the Israeli enemy carried out an air strike… and the attack resulted in the death of two […]
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): A Swedish court Tuesday overturned a police move to ban two Quran burning protests, as five suspects were arrested for plotting a “terrorist act” over a similar demonstration. The burning of Islam’s holy book outside Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm in January angered the Muslim world, sparking wee...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians Monday in a morning raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. “Two martyrs shot by the occupation (Israel) in Nablus,” the ministry confirmed in a brief statement, without elaborating on their identities. The Israeli army sa...
