Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Hundreds of Tunisians on Saturday marched after opponents of President Kais Saied called for protests over a worsening economic crisis. “The people want what you don’t want. Down with Saied,” chanted the activists, including supporters of the progressive Islamic Ennahdha party which leads the opposition....
BEIRUT (AA) – The Iranian foreign minister has said his country and Saudi Arabia had agreed in December to hold bilateral talks that would lead to normalization of their ties. Hossein Abdollahian’s remarks came during a joint news conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib in Lebanon’s capital Beirut. He sai...
NEW YORK (AA) – The US State Department has sent to the Congress its decision on the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye for tiered review. The notification on the sale of new F-16 jets and modernization kits has been conveyed to the chairmen and ranking members of relevant committees in the House […]
ANKARA (AA) – A soldier died of wounds he sustained in an attack by Kurdish militants in northern Syria near the border, said the Turkish defence ministry. Selcuk Kurt was injured after PKK assailants opened fire on the Operation Euphrates Shield area. The soldier succumbed to his injuries at hospital. The Turkish Ministry of Defence […...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called Iran’s execution of a British-Iranian national a “cowardly act.” The premier denounced the killing, terming it an act committed by “a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people.” Earlier, the Iranian judiciary had announced t...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran on Saturday to protest the UK’s “unconventional interventions” in the country’s national security. It came hours after a dual Iranian-Britain national was executed on charges of espionage for the British intelligence agency MI6. Alireza Akbari, a former deputy...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians lost their lives to Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said two young men were killed in an Israeli attack in the town of Jaba’, south of Jenin city. The state news agency Wafa said Israeli forces […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Afghan Taliban have welcomed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) recent declaration on Afghanistan but asked the international community not to “interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.” In a statement, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the group which seized power in the war-torn countr...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least three policemen, including a senior officer, were killed in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan, the police said on Saturday. The brazen attack, which is the latest in a slew of similar incidents in recent months, took place in Peshawar, the provincial capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [&helli...
Damascus, Syria — AFP Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has said that a Moscow-brokered rapprochement with Turkiye should aim for “the end of occupation” by Ankara of parts of Syria. The comment, in a statement from his office, was Assad’s first on meetings between ministers from Ankara and Damascus after more tha...
