Amman, Jordan (AFP): Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular in Jordan where his image can still be seen across the country. The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in neighbouring Jordan, despite symbols and imag...
ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has voiced concern over the current tense situation in Sudan following a delay in the signing of a final agreement to resolve the country’s months-long political crisis. In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Sudan’s rivals to work to overcome obstacles to civilian […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel on Sunday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers for two days due to Jewish holidays, according to the mosque director. “Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque and prevented the entry of Muslim worshipers, while Israeli settlers were allowed,” Ghassan Al-Rajabi told...
ANKARA (AA) – Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Sunday non-Lebanese elements were behind rocket fire into Israel. On Thursday, some 37 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel after Israeli police raids into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. There was no claim of responsibility for the rocket ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Forty-four civilians have been killed by armed groups in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday. The provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in northeast Burkina Faso ov...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan late Saturday warned of “catastrophic” consequences of Israel’s violation of the status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Recent Israeli acts violate the sanctity of the holy places and the right of Muslims to perform their religious rituals during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Jordanian For...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – In a fresh incident of poisoning in Iran, more than a dozen schoolgirls were transferred to a hospital on the outskirts of Tehran on Saturday, according to reports. Local media cited officials in Pardis, a suburb located 17 kilometers (105 miles) northeast of Tehran, as saying that students at Khayyam Girls […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army targeted various locations in Syria claiming that rockets had been fired from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early Sunday. The army said: “We are bombing Syria now in retribution.” Three rockets were launched at Natur and Avnei Eitan in southern Golan Heights, according to Isra...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right Jewish settlers early Sunday stormed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli police guarded the Jewish settlers during the raid. The police began to be deployed around the Qibla Masjid and did not allow the Palestinians inside to go outside. They later started to take the Jewish settlers [...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, has condemned the latest attacks by Israel. Cavusoglu conveyed Ankara’s condemnation of provocations by Israeli security forces against the sanctity and status of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israeli air strikes on Gaz...
