ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday said that at least 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army said its Iron Dome air defense system intercepted 15 of the rockets fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel. The army added that it has closed its airspace to civilian flights in nort...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli settlers on Thursday forced their way into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. According to eyewitnesses, police were deployed in the courtyards of the compound to secure the settlers. Israeli authorities began restricting Palestinians under 40 years old from entering the site before the Musli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Top diplomats of Saudi Arabia and Iran met in China on Thursday, their first meeting in over seven years, said an official statement. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the capital Beijing on Thursday, a joint statement released by the two sides [&hell...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran is probing reports about an overnight attack on a defense facility in the central city of Isfahan that was reportedly thwarted. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a weekly cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said he could not confirm the attack and that it […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye has announced that its airspace was closed to flights to and from Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah airport from April 3 because of “PKK’s hostile activities in the region.” Turkish airspace has been closed to the use of aircraft using Sulaymaniyah International Airport for landing and take-off as of Apr...
KARACHI, Pakistan/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan and Indonesia have strongly condemned an Israeli police raid on Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a statement blamed “impunity granted to Israel,” which has “emboldened Tel Aviv to violate basic human rights with abando...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has criticized British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s controversial remarks accusing British-Pakistani men of being involved in sexual exploitation of women and children, calling them “discriminatory and xenophobic.” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at a weekly press briefi...
ANKARA (AA) — Following the latest Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Türkiye’s presidential spokesman called on the international community to put pressure on Tel Aviv over the incident. In an exclusive interview, Ibrahim Kalin condemned the “reckless attack” by Israeli forces in the stron...
ANKARA (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has called for a dialogue to resolve the longstanding dispute over the South China Sea, saying that the problem is not “insurmountable.” There is no easy solution to the overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, nor is the problem insurmountable as long as there is [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Scores of Israeli settlers on Wednesday forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Jerusalem Islamic Endowment Department said 165 Israeli settlers broke into the flashpoint site. According to eyewitnesses, the settlers mo...
