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 […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Australia has revealed the question to voters for a national referendum scheduled later this year to decide whether to recognize Indigenous people. Australians are to vote, “yes” or “no” on whether they approve a proposed law to “alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by...
LONDON (AA) – A suspect has been charged with attempted murder following two separate attacks on two men who were set alight outside mosques in Birmingham and London. “A man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder following incidents in Birmingham and London in the last month. Mohammed Abubkr, aged 28, was remanded [&h...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The African Union (AU) has appealed for nearly $90 million in funding for its peacekeeping mission in Somalia. In a statement, Bankole Adeoye, the AU commissioner for political affairs and peace who made the funding request, said the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) is providing crucial support to the Somal...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least four Israeli protesters were arrested on Thursday as thousands rallied against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan, local media reported. Israel has seen mass protests over the past 12 weeks against the government’s judicial reform plan, seen by the opposition as an attempt to redu...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has rejected a US report on the country’s human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, and democracy, calling it one-sided and questioning American police’s excessive use of force and killings of ordinary citizens. Talking to reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday, Bangladesh Information and Broadcastin...
