Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Saudi Arabia, home of the holiest shrines in Islam, has announced that the fasting month of Ramadan will start on Thursday. The kingdom’s supreme court ruled on Tuesday evening that the Islamic calendar month of Shaban, which precedes Ramadan, ends on Wednesday, meaning Ramadan will begin the following day, th...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli warplanes early Wednesday launched an airstrike on Aleppo airport in northwestern Syria, the Syrian regime’s news agency SANA said. Citing an unnamed military source, the news agency said missiles targeted Aleppo International Airport, causing “material damages.” “The Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression wit...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): At least 12 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared Wednesday to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.5 quake was centred near J...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Iraq on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to combat all forms of terrorism. It is clear that terror groups “such as the PKK, Daesh/ISIS, and FETO pose a threat to both countries,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a joint news conference with Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in [&hell...
Jindayris, Syria (AFP): Thousands of angry Kurds rallied in rebel-held northern Syria on Tuesday after pro-Turkish fighters killed four fellow Kurds who were celebrating their Nowruz new year festival. “They killed my children for no reason,” Kuli Maho, 70, cried as she wept for her three sons and a grandson. Some people waved Kurd...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – An independent report into the Metropolitan Police (the Met) commissioned after Sarah Everard’s murder has concluded that Britain’s largest law-enforcement force is “broken” and should be abolished if it cannot change. The Met is “institutionally racist and misogynistic”, the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that attempts by Western countries to isolate Iran have backfired. Iran marked the beginning of the New Year on Tuesday with nationwide events. Khamenei’s speech at Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad came after three years of the pandemic. In [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia announced Tuesday that it summoned Canada’s charge d’affaires for comments made by the Canadian foreign minister. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Brian Ebel was summoned Monday and was told that the comments were “unacceptable and ran counter to the obligations of Canada as a state party to the Vienna Convention ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the head of the Tripoli-based government, on Tuesday discussed the latest political developments in Libya with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf. The discussions also dwelt on the importance of rallying local and international efforts for holding the country’s stall...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — A man in Birmingham has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an 82-year-old Muslim worshipper was set on fire as he walked home from the Dudley Road Mosque. The West Midlands police said the attacker spoke to the victim briefly before spraying him with an unknown substance and before […]
