Tehran, Iran (AFP) – Tehran on Monday questioned Washington’s will in reaching an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, with key sticking points unresolved after talks halted last month. Iran has been engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indire...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP UN special envoy Hans Grundberg started his first visit to Yemen’s rebel-held capital Monday, following an April 2 ceasefire. The Swedish diplomat is scheduled to meet Huthi rebel officials during his first Sanaa visit since taking office in September. “He is looking forward to engaging with Ansar Allah (Hu...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel rounded up 21 Palestinians in raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Asra Media Office said the arrests took place in the cities of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said [&hell...
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian teen died Monday of his wounds he sustained from Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to a medical source. Mohammad Zakarneh, 17, was injured in clashes during an Israeli raid into Jenin city on Sunday. The medical source said that Zakarneh underwent several […]
BAGHDAD – The United Nations has called for solving the crisis of the Al-Hol refugee camp in eastern Syria. “There must be a comprehensive and decisive action in the file of the Al-Hol camp, as there are 30,000 Iraqis who have ties to Daesh/ISIS and some of their victims are in Al-Hol camp and their […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen off Gaza’s southern coast. The two fishermen were fishing off the shores of the city of Rafah south of Gaza when they were arrested aboard their boat, Nizar Ayyash, the head of the Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate said, adding that the fishermen did not excee...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A visa exemption agreement between Israel and Morocco has entered into force, according to an Israeli diplomat on Saturday. “I am pleased to inform you that an agreement has been signed between the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco regarding visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and official passports,&#...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi President Barham Salih on Saturday called on the country’s political forces to reach an agreement to end the crisis of government formation. In a statement, Salih said Iraq is going through a “sensitive situation amid political impasse” casting the country into a “dangerous maze.” Iraq has been unable to form a […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the Israeli escalation in the West Bank city of Jenin. A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli forces early Saturday in Jenin during a raid. Islamic Jihad movement said the young man was a member of its military wing, the Saraya al-Quds Brigades. […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Four American soldiers were injured in a missile attack targeting a US base east of Syria on Saturday, according to the US-led international coalition fighting ISIS. “Coalition forces at Green Village in Eastern Syria received two rounds of indirect fire that struck two support buildings,” the coalition said in a statement. It [&...
