ANKARA, TURKIYE (AA): Türkiye and Iran support Syria’s territorial integrity and its political unity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu on Tuesday while addressing a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian. Cavusoglu stressed that Ankara and Tehran would closely cooperate in this regard. Pointin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police prevented Jordan’s ambassador from entering Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported. Officers held up Ghassan Majali and Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, the director-general of the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem, at the Lion’s Gate entrance and asked them ...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – At least 43 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to local medics. The violence erupted after Israeli forces stormed Nablus city to secure settlers’ access to Joseph’s tomb, eyewitnesses said. The Palestine Red Crescent Society ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Bangladesh’s police of abusing the Rohingya refugees in the congested camps in the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar. In a report published on Tuesday, HRW said: “APBn (Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrest, and harass...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Libya’s Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh has said the country’s stalled elections will be held before November after an agreement between the rival legislative chambers. On January 5, Saleh met in Egypt with Khaled al-Mishri, chairman of the Tripoli-based High Council of State (HCS), which acts as a senate, where they agreed to ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A young man was shot dead by Israeli forces at the entrance of Nabi Yunis town north of Hebron on Tuesday, Palestine TV reported. Palestinian activists and local media circulated a video showing a young man lying on the ground while Israeli soldiers surrounded him. “The Israeli forces prevented the medics...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians are rushing to pick up their voting cards for next month’s presidential election, where three major candidates are vying to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Nearly 10 million new voters have been registered for the February 25 ballot, of whom 84 percent are young people aged under 34. For the first time...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is working relentlessly “to limit the presence of Iranian forces in Syria”, said its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Accusing Iran of being “responsible for 90% of the Middle East’s problems”, he said Israel would thwart Tehran’s “attempts to transfer weapons to Syria and Lebanon. Speaking at a ceremo...
Dheisheh, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy Monday near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Omar Khmour, 14, was shot in the head early Monday in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank and “succumbed to his wounds”, the ministry said. The Israe...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday urged Bosnia and Herzegovina to “refrain from divisive rhetoric”. Stoltenberg’s remarks came after he met a Bosnian member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, Denis Becirovic, in Brussels. “The Secretary-General urged all political lead...
