BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon will lodge an official complaint with the UN Security Council over the deliberate Israeli aggression that took place early Friday, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The ministry said Israel had violated Lebanon’s sovereignty by bombing areas in southern Lebanon. “Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov has said that the West “is not hiding” that China is the “next target” after Russia, as well as any country that “dares to act independently.” “They do not hide that when Russia, as they put it, is ‘defeated,’ China will be the next ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim world should be united against Israel’s attacks in Palestine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart on Friday. Erdogan and Ebrahim Raisi spoke over phone and discussed Türkiye-Iran relations and regional issues, including Israeli attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mo...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Several houses as well as health and educational facilities were damaged on Friday in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian residents and officials. The Israeli bombing also caused damage to a number of agricultural lands and vehicles, according to reporters on the scene. The Israeli ra...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has called on the UN Security Council to hold an “urgent” discussion about Israel’s latest attacks on Palestinian worshippers and subsequent developments. This demand was made by Zhai Jun, China’s special envoy to the Middle East, when he met with ambassadors from Arab states in Beijing on Friday, Foreign Ministry s...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Saudi Arabia has signed a $240 million loan agreement with Pakistan to support the Mohmand Dam project in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The agreement was signed at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad and attended by Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki and senior officials from the Ministry of Econo...
GAZA – ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas discussed Friday the latest Israeli aggression against Palestinians and Lebanon with a senior Russian official. The head of the movement’s international relations office, Moussa Abu Marzouk, talked with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov about “the Zionist aggression against the Gaza...
WASHINGTON (AA) – CIA Director Bill Burns paid an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia, expressing frustration about Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran, according to a report. Burns told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the US felt “blindsided” by Riyadh’s rapprochement with Iran and Syria — Washington’s gl...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest Friday outside the Israeli Embassy in London against attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem. The emergency protest was called for by various NGOs and Palestinian solidarity campaign groups, including Friends of Al Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Stop the Wa...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Palestinians were injured Friday when Israeli soldiers opened fire during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, said officials. The Palestinians were shot with live rounds in the raid in Burkin, according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They were taken to the Jenin State Hospital […]
