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 [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – More than 1,200 Somali civilians were killed or injured due to explosive ordnance, including landmines, and improvised explosive devices in 2022, according to latest UN figures. “Whether measured in the number of casualties or the scope of economic impediment, the toll being paid by ordinary Somalis because of t...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday overturned the country’s electoral authority’s decision to postpone elections in a key province. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial had reserved the judgment on Monday after over a week-long hearing. It ordered t...
TORONTO, Canada (AA) – ISIS senior leader Khalid Ayyd Ahmad al-Jabouri was killed in an airstrike in Syria, US Central Command said Tuesday. CENTCOM said the ISIS leader was killed in northwestern Syria early Tuesday. There were no civilian casualties in the attack, it said. Al-Jabouri was responsible for attacks that ISIS carried out in...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): Finland became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of “countermeasures” from the Kremlin. Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe’s security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbour Sweden — to drop decades...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied appeared in a video posted Monday on his official Facebook page, dismissing “mad” reports over his health following almost two weeks with no public engagements. The North African country’s main opposition coalition had pressed the government earlier to explain Saied’s ...
