JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a threatening letter Tuesday containing a bullet, local media reported. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that police have launched an investigation into the letter, which was sent to Bennett’s home in the city of Ra’anana in central Israel. Israel’...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, according to the state news agency SANA. Citing a military source, SANA said the Israeli military targeted several positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces in Damascus’ vic...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
DOHA, Qatar – Qatar has called for providing protection to the Palestinian people and their holy sites amid Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem. Qatar “calls on the international community, especially the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities to protect the Palestinian people and their religious sanctities and to sto...
JERICHO, PALESTINE (AA) – A young Palestinian man succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday after he was shot by Israeli forces in the eastern occupied West Bank district of Jericho. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Ahmad Ibrahim Oueidat, 20, was shot with a live bullet in the head during an Israeli military raid into […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to defend on Tuesday ongoing negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top diplomat emphasized that former US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” and decision to unilate...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq said Tuesday it had hosted a fifth round of tension-easing talks between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahaf described the talks between the two neighbors as “positive”. “The atmosphere of the negotiations was calm and there was a state of positivity and understanding,̶...
BAGHDAD (AA) – An Iraqi soldier and two ISIS terrorists were killed in a security swoop north of the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the defense ministry. A ministry statement said security forces raided a hideout for ISIS terrorists in al-Boghbin, 50 km north of Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier and two terrorists, including a […]
JERUSALEM, WEST BANK (AA): An Israeli court sent the file of the Palestinian family that has been fighting the eviction order from its house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem to the execution judge for the evaluation of the objections on Tuesday. An appeal hearing was held at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court […...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have accused the UN refugee agency UNRWA of procrastinating the reconstruction of their homes destroyed during last year’s Israeli war. This came in a protest organized by Palestinian factions outside the UNRWA office in Gaza City. “I have the right to safe housing,” and &#...
