MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Militants belonging to the al-Shabaab group stormed several towns in southwestern Somalia along the border with Ethiopia. Heavy losses are feared in the ensuing clashes with security forces from both sides. Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militants attacked the towns of Aato, Yeed, and Washaqo in the province of ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Syrian regime on Wednesday severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry. “The Syrian Arab Republic has decided to break diplomatic relations with Ukraine in conformity with the principle of reciprocity and in response to the decision of the Ukrainian government,” a foreign ministry of...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s public prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into the recent arrest at the country’s main international airport of 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast. Mali’s military government said last week that it had arrested the soldiers upon their arrival in the capital Bamako after they were f...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military government has announced the expulsion of a UN peacekeeping mission spokesman for posts he made on Twitter following a diplomatic incident with the Ivory Coast. Olivier Salgado, from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Foreign Minis...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s Tehran Stock Exchange on Tuesday launched trading in Iranian rial/Russian ruble. Some 2 million rubles traded in the Iranian stock market on Tuesday – with a ratio of 5,390 rials per ruble, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported. The rial/ruble transactions began in the wake of Russian President Vladimir ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Tuesday to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO memberships, setting up a vote in the wider chamber. The passage of what are known as the Nordic countries’ ascension protocols was met without opposition during a voice vote. The only vote not in approval came fro...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Syria has rejected a request to supply Jordan with 30 million cubic meters of water, said a Jordanian minister on Tuesday. The request was turned down “due to the water situation in Syria,” Minister of Water and Irrigation Muhammad Al-Najjar said in statements cited by the state-run Al-Mamlaka TV. Jordan seeks […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran and Türkiye on Tuesday agreed to extend their gas supply contract for another 25 years and set an ambitious trade target of $30 billion. The agreements came during a meeting between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran. In his remarks at a joint […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Iran need to continue to fight terrorist groups in solidarity, as they stir up trouble for both countries, the Turkish president said in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday. “The PJAK, PKK, PYD, YPG, and FETO terrorist organizations are troublemakers for both Türkiye and Iran. We need to continue the [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – All parties must “seriously learn from the hard lessons of the Ukraine crisis,” according to China’s top diplomat. “Apart from seriously impacting Europe, the Ukraine crisis has produced a negative spillover effect spreading around the world,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a Sunday night phone call with his Hungarian counter...
