KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 15 people, including 13 soldiers, were killed in an attack on a military vehicle in eastern Burkina Faso, the army said on Sunday. The attack attributed to armed terrorists occurred on Saturday in the rural commune of Kikideni, in the Gourma province. A unit of the military detachment of […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah has denied making security guarantees to Israel as part of a maritime border deal with Israel. “Lebanon didn’t provide any security guarantees […] the Israeli enemy acknowledged the deterrence balance with the resistance,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a t...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A general strike paralyzed the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday amid Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian property. All shops closed doors on Sunday in response to a call by the Palestinian Fatah group to stage a strike in the city, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter. Manal Daana, an […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has said two soldiers were killed in clashes with Houthi rebels in the southwestern Lahij province. The fatalities occurred in artillery shelling on STC positions by Houthi rebels north of Lahij, the STC said in a statement. The statement said STC-affiliated forces resp...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Sunday signed a decree accepting the resignation of the country’s caretaker government, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor. “This morning, I sent a letter to the House of Representatives in accordance with my constitutional powers and signed the governm...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Tension has flared between Algeria and Morocco after an Algerian state channel published a map of the Arab region seen by Rabat as “wrong.” The uproar came as Arab foreign ministers held a meeting in Algeria to prepare for the annual Arab summit, due to open on Tuesday in the capital […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – After nearly three-month-long unrest along the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, the forces of the two on Sunday held a commander-level meeting to resolve the issue. A seven-member team of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) attended the flag meeting held in Bangladesh’s southern border town of Tekhnaf while an ei...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 100 people were killed in explosions in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, media reports said Sunday. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said more than 300 were injured in the terrorist attacks, according to Somali National News Agency (SONNA). He pointed out that fatalities could rise. “We will defeat and we alr...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement that flared over Mahsa Amini’s death entered a seventh week. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died in custody after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of Iran’...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, who was the oldest prisoner at the notorious US detention center Guantanamo Bay, returned to Pakistan on Saturday after more than 18 years, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. In 2003, US intelligence operatives arrested Paracha, now 73, in Thailand on charges of having links to ...
