WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the international community’s special political mission in Yemen. The authorization was set to expire July 15 but the vote extends the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) for one year. The vote was conducted in an exceptionally rare fashion w...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US congressman Jamaal Bowman has added an amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which seeks to prevent US military presence in Syria without congressional approval. “None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense may b...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – A labor court in Germany’s Bonn has ruled against Deutsche Welle (DW) on the dismissal of Palestinian journalist Maram Salim over ‘anti Semitism’ allegations. The Bonn Labor Court on July 6 ruled that her termination of employment at Deutsche Welle was invalid and unlawful as her Facebook posts w...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN Security Council’s extension of the use of Bab al-Hawa as a crossing point from Türkiye to Syria for humanitarian deliveries is an important outcome, the European Union has said. On Tuesday, the UNSC had agreed to extend its mandate for badly needed cross-border aid deliveries from Türkiye’s Cilvegozu border cr...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said US President Joe Biden’s Middle East tour aims to serve Israeli interests. Biden is undertaking a tour of Israel, West Bank, and Saudi Arabia. “Biden’s visit will only serve the Israeli interests in the region at the expense of the Palestinian cause,” Hamas spo...
Washington, United States – (AFP): A research institution has downplayed the killing of Maher al-Agal in Syria, saying the ISIS in the country is “barely a shadow” of what it used to be. “It is important to remember that each time an Islamic State head is killed, they are replaced immediately,” Damien Ferre, found...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Iran’s capital Tehran on July 19 to take part in a trilateral meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a Kremlin spokesman. Putin will also hold a separate bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Dmitry Peskov told a p...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has agreed to extend its mandate for badly-needed cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for six months. The 12-0 vote came after Russia vetoed a UN resolution on Friday that would have extended cross-border deliveries from Türkiye for one year. The Council’s mandate expired Sunday. The res...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
ANKARA (AA) – Delegations from Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will gather at an investment workshop in Istanbul on Wednesday. Three ministers from the UAE, as well as senior officials of investment funds and companies will meet with public and private sector organizations, and business world representatives at the event. According ...
