JERUSALEM (AA) – Outgoing Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Barlev has warned that extremist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir could spark a wide-scale confrontation with the Palestinians. Ben-Gvir, who heads the far-right Jewish Strength Party, is expected to become national security minister in the upcoming government headed by Benjamin N...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran on Thursday executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by the country, local media reported. The execution was ordered for Muhsin Shikari, who according to the Mizan News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, “threat...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations expressed concern Thursday that Israel’s refusal to grant entry visas to UN personnel could affect humanitarian work in Palestine. Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said it could have a significant long-term effect on the humanitarian community’s ability to support Palestinians in need. &...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Wednesday that security cooperation with Türkiye is of “paramount importance” after lawmakers dropped provisions from the annual defense spending bill that made sales of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara contingent on a series of conditions. Asked by reporters about the issue, State Department spokesman Ned Price ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The situation in Kosovo is so flammable and tense that one spark is enough to light it, and everything can go in an undesirable direction, Serbia’s defense minister said on Wednesday. Milos Vucevic was speaking to a local television channel, evaluating relations between his country and Kosovo. ”The atmospher...
Huwara, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Eye-witnesses have firmly disputed an Israeli officer’s self-defence claims after chilling footage showed him firing close-range fatal shots at a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank. Ammar Hadi Mufleh, 22, was killed Friday in Huwara, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, and video from the s...
Paris, France (AFP): Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president offered public support for the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Amini died after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for ...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli troops killed three Palestinians on Thursday in their latest deadly raid on the flashpoint city of Jenin, Palestinian health officials said, as violence surges in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have made near-daily raids across the territory in recent months, many of them deadly. The Palest...
Mosul, Iraq (AFP): Five years after it emerged from the control of ISIS, Iraq’s once thriving cultural centre of Mosul has regained a semblance of normalcy despite sluggish reconstruction efforts. However, like in much of oil-rich but war-ravaged Iraq, ramshackle public services and deep economic difficulties continue to hamper people...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right Zionist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the expulsion of all Al Jazeera journalists, accusing the television of spreading “false propaganda” against Israel. The call came shortly after the Doha-based network filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the point-blank killing of it...
