AMMAN, Jordan (AA): Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi arrived in Damascus on Monday, for the second such visit to Syria since February. Safadi will meet with head of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad during his visit, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The top Jordanian diplomat will also hold talks with his Syrian [&hel...
GENEVA, ANKARA (AA): The Swedish government said Sunday that it wants to stop those people “who seek to come to Sweden and commit crime” in the wake of the burning of the Quran in Stockholm last week. “In May this year, the government decided to reintroduce border controls. We were clear about the reasons for […]
ISLAMABAD (AA): More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 2,700 others wounded since the 2021 Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in improvised explosive devise (IED) blasts. The claim was made in a UN report released Tuesday. According to the latest report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), 3,774 civilian casualties ...
ANKARA (AA): Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on three people involved in the “downing” of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. In a statement, Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong said that her country is working closely with the Netherlands and European Union to coordinate sanctions on those who...
ISTANBUL (AA): A US army veteran has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of an Afghan refugee after he shouted Islamophobic slurs at the victim. After a three-day trial, Dustin Passarelli was convicted in the Midwestern US state of Indiana of the murder of Mustafa Ayoubi, 32, with additional time for […]
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistani authorities have collected the DNA samples of relatives to identify those who lost their lives in the tragic boat accident off the coast of Greece on June 14. The country observed a mourning day on Monday as hundreds of Pakistanis were reportedly among those who died or went missing in the tragedy. […]
ISTANBUL (AA): In a neighborhood in northern Khartoum, a group of soldiers broke into a house and raped a woman while they held her husband at gunpoint. They also raped other women in the house, all of them refugees from Eritrea. In another area of Khartoum, two women were violently dragged out of a bus […]
LONDON (AA): Britain on Friday called on Serbia to release three Kosovar police officers, also urging the two countries to show “maximum restraint” amid recent tensions. “We call for the immediate release of the three Kosovo policemen detained on 14 June,” said a Foreign Office statement, referring to the police officers taken into custody on ...
ANKARA (AA): Civil society groups in India have accused the ruling right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of divisive politics in the northeastern state of Manipur, where ethnic violence has claimed over 100 lives and forced thousands of people from their homes since early last month. “Manipur is burning today in very ...
ISTANBUL (AA): A court in Australia has dismissed a decorated soldier’s case against media organizations and three journalists over their coverage of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. The defamation case was dismissed after Judge Anthony Besanko found that the newspapers had “proven several of the key allegations” of war cri...
