BAGHDAD (AA) – Protesters set fire to a government building on Monday in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, according to security sources. A group of masked men took to the streets of the city center of Nasiriyah to stage demonstrations, the sources said. The demonstrators then set fire to the governor’s office with Molotov cocktails, they [&hel...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US forces carried out an airstrike targeting and killing a leader within the al-Shabab militant group, US Africa Command announced on Monday. The strike targeted an “al-Shabaab militant network” about 370 kilometers (230 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, the command said in a statement. The military said its &#...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s top negotiator for maritime border demarcation with Lebanon, Udi Adiri, has resigned from his post amid progress in US-mediated efforts to reach a possible deal with Beirut. The resignation came as US mediator Amos Hochstein presented his final proposal to settle a maritime border dispute between Tel Aviv and Beirut. Acc...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Multiple bombings hit the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Monday, killing several people, the state-run news agency reported. Four people, including Dr. Zakariye Mohamed Ahmed Hurre, the health minister for Hirshabelle state, were killed in the explosions, according to the Somali National News Agency (SONNA). Acc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN mission in Afghanistan has said the number of deaths from Friday’s suicide bombing in Kabul has climbed to 43. “Human toll from Friday’s college bombing in Hazara neighborhood of Afghan capital continues to rise,” United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a brief statement. It added that 43 [&helli...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): The African Union has condemned the “unconstitutional change of government” in Burkina Faso, days after the second coup this year in the impoverished restive West African country. Junior officers toppled a junta leader on September 30, saying he had failed to fight violent groups in the country. Mor...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni government has accused the Iran-backed Houthi group of dealing with the truce as an “opportunity to blackmail and put Iran’s interests ahead of the interests of the Yemeni people.” “The Houthis treated the truce as an opportunity for blackmail, and putting Iran’s interests ahea...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran confirmed Monday it is exchanging messages with the United States through the European Union and some regional countries to narrow the gaps in reaching a nuclear agreement. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a weekly news conference in Tehran that the exchange of messages was underway through EU coordina...
Paris, France (AFP): Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of fomenting the wave of nationwide unrest sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini. “I say clearly that these riots and the insecurity were engineered by America and the occupying, false Zionist regime...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The death toll in the protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody has surged to 92, according to a Norway-based human rights group. In a statement, Iran Human Rights (IHR), a non-profit NGO founded by Iranian expats, said 41 protesters were killed in the southeastern […]
