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ISTANBUL (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani has called for reviewing his country’s relationship with the US-led coalition against the ISIS. In an article in Le Monde newspaper, al-Sudani said Baghdad needs the foreign forces in an advisory capacity, not in a combat role. “The Iraqi government is currently more convinced ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army tore down eight Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to local residents. Israeli forces raided the town of al-Diyouk al-Tahta, west of Jericho city in the southern West Bank, and demolished six Palestinian-owned homes, residents said. The Israeli army cited “...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): The judge leading the investigation into Beirut’s deadly 2020 port blast refused Wednesday to step down from the probe, rejecting charges brought against him by Lebanon’s top prosecutor in the politically charged case. Investigative judge Tarek Bitar defied Lebanon’s entrenched ruling elite this week by...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (AFP): Mauritania’s ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went on trial on Wednesday, accused of amassing an illicit personal fortune from his 11-year stay in power. Aziz, a 66-year-old former general, appeared in a court in Nouakchott among 10 defendants, including former prime ministers, ministers and businessmen,...
NICE, France (AA) – Academics and activists have said that the incidents of Quran desecration remind them of Europe’s dark past of religious persecution. Rasmus Paludan, an extremist Islamophobic Swedish-Danish politician, staged an incident desecrating a copy of the Muslim holy book on Saturday outside the Turkish Embassy in Stock...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has called for a boycott of Dutch and Swedish products amid anger over the desecration of the Quran in the two European countries. On Sunday, Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, carried out a despicable act of desecration and filmed it for [...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has cleared the Zap region in northern Iraq of Kurdish fighters, according to the Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. A total of 506 Kurdish militants have been “neutralized” since Türkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock, a cross-border anti-terrorism offensive last April, Akar told the media. “Operati...
ANKARA (AA) – In a Twitter survey conducted by Turkish news agency Anadolu, 92.5% of respondents said ‘no’ to Türkiye approving Sweden’s bid to join NATO. A total of 50,155 people responded to the 24-hour survey asking: “Do you think Türkiye should support Sweden’s bid to join NATO?” and many also shared the...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The speaker of Pakistan’s lower house accepted the resignations of another 43 lawmakers from the key opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday. Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had accepted the resignations of 69 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from the National Assembly in two stages la...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Islamophobic extremist Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), not only set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book under police “protection,” but had earlier made the Swedish security forces release a member of his team of Islamophobes in order to start his provocative act, a [&hel...
