ISTANBUL (AA) – Continuing with its “countermeasures” against the US House speaker’s trip to Taiwan earlier in the week, China has announced that it has decided to implement sanctions on Nancy Pelosi and her family. “Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi insisted on visiting China’s Taiwan region. This constitutes...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Israel and Morocco have agreed to enhance bilateral security cooperation. Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai met Morocco’s Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance Abdellatif El Hammouchi in the capital Rabat on Friday, and agreed to promote security cooperation to serve mutual intere...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Tens of thousands attended prayers on Friday in Baghdad’s Green Zone in a show of power by Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries agreed to back his call for early elections conditionally. Sadr, a longtime political and religious force in Iraq, has for months been in a political standoff with [&helli...
RAMALLAH (AA) – The Israeli army has arrested 23 Palestinians during a raid on a number of West Bank governorates. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said: “The detainees are from the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem (south), Tulkarm, and Jenin (north).” The club also added that among the detainees, eight were from the Al-Aj...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Following rival Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s call, the Coordination Framework coalition has voiced support for any constitutional path to address Iraq’s political crisis, including early elections. However, the coalition wants a government to first be formed under Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, its nominee for the post of prime minis...
BAGHDAD (AA) – UN special envoy for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert on Friday met prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to discuss the country’s political crisis, state media reported. According to the official Iraqi news agency, Plasschaert said her meeting with the leader of the Sadrist movement “went well.” Plasschaert ...
ANKARA (AA) – Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of violating the 2020 agreement which ended the 44-day Karabakh War is “nothing but mere hypocrisy,” Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Azerbaijan has repeatedly pointed to Armenia’s failure to meet the provisions of the Nov. 10, 2020 agreement signed by the two nat...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned on Thursday that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it could continue the war in neighboring countries. It is a “moral responsibility” to support Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion and also serves “our own interest that President (Vladimir) Putin does not succeed in his ambitions [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The Kremlin has said it is concerned about the situation in the Karabakh region and called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to exercise restraint and implement the tripartite agreements. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan may exchang...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO has urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to end hostilities as fighting flared up in the region of Karabakh. “NATO calls for an immediate end of hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces,” Javier Colomina, the NATO secretary-general’s special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia wrote on Twitter. He add...
