ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun on Friday slammed a US senator for “one-sided” claims on Türkiye’s policies. “It is sad to see U.S. Congress members and Administration officials perpetuate one-sided views of Türkiye’s policies. Skewed and deeply flawed descriptions of our gove...
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AA) – Turkmen voters will go to the polls on Sunday to elect deputies for the country’s national assembly, or Mejlis, as well as members of the national and local people’s councils and local government bodies. There are 3.49 million voters eligible to cast their ballots in the parliamentary elections. During the electio...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A weeklong meeting between a 22-member high-level delegation from Myanmar and the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s camps concluded with no significant progress, according to Rohingya leaders and Bangladeshi authorities. The representatives came to Bangladesh on March 15 and stayed for a week near the Rohingya ca...
BEIRUT (AA) – Angry protesters on Friday lit empty car tires in front of the Central Bank of Lebanon, while others tried to storm banks in the capital Beirut, amid a decision regarding deposits withdrawal. Hundreds of Lebanese staged a protest called for by the Cry of Depositors association in front of the central bank […]
ANKARA (AA) – At least 82 people were injured as a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan on Friday, local authorities said. In a press statement, Amir Abbas Jafari, the director general of crisis management in West Azerbaijan province, said several buildings were damaged in the earthquake in the cities...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Four soldiers and 10 volunteers with the military were killed in northern Burkina Faso, a security source said Thursday. The attack on Wednesday in Zorkoum targeted a unit of soldiers and members of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), the source said. “We have sadly lost four soldiers ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – ISIS has a stronger presence in Afghanistan than the previous year following the withdrawal of US troops in August 2021, the top US general for the Middle East said Thursday. Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), said, “ISI...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US conducted airstrikes Thursday against Iran-backed groups in eastern Syria in response to a drone attack that killed a US contractor and injured five service members, said the Pentagon. In a statement, the Pentagon said a “one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has said that a US warship “trespassed” into Chinese territorial waters near the Xisha Islands on Thursday. The warship was expelled from the waters, said Air Force Senior Colonel Tian Junli, a spokesperson for the PLA Southern Theater Command, in a statement. The Xi...
ADIYAMAN, Türkiye (AA) – Container homes from Qatar are being set up in Türkiye’s Adiyaman province that was hit hard by the February 6 twin earthquakes. According to sources, officials in Adiyaman have been handed over 1,000 living containers, and as many as 600 of them have so far been placed near the city’s main […]...
