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...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israeli police arrested more than 350 people after clashes erupted inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque early Wednesday when officers entered to dislodge worshippers in a move denounced by the Palestinian movement Hamas. Palestinian fighters responded with rocket fire into Israel from the Hamas-ruled G...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – On April 4, 2017, more than 100 Syrian civilians were killed in a chemical attack by the Syrian Assad regime forces on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the northwestern Idlib province. With Iranian and Russian support, the regime of Bashar al-Assad continued its air and ground assault until it seized […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – More than 15 million square meters are still contaminated with explosive ordnances across war-torn Libya, the United Nations has said. “The indiscriminate use of weapons in civilian areas during the recent conflicts means even urban areas are littered with explosive remnants of war,” the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMI...
ANKARA (AA) – Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has announced that oil exports through Türkiye’s Ceyhan pipeline would resume later in the day, following a pause of more than a week caused by a long-running international arbitration case between Iraq and Türkiye. Head of KRG Foreign Media Affairs, Lawk Ghafuri, said on...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Iraq held a meeting in the Gulf country of Oman, according to Iraqi Ambassador Qais Saad al-Amiri. The diplomats exchanged views about regional affairs during the meeting hosted by al-Amiri “in an atmosphere of optimism and familiarity among the attendees,” the Iraqi Embassy in [...
