JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s parliament has approved the preliminary reading of a bill that would prohibit the return of the bodies of Palestinians killed while allegedly carrying out attacks against Israelis to their families. The bill mandates their burial in Israel’s “Cemetery for the Enemy’s Victims” or the “Cemetery o...
ANKARA (AA) – Following the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, families who identified their loved ones in photographs taken by a whistleblower codenamed “Caesar” showing victims tortured to death by the regime hope that legal proceedings will ensure justice for the perpetrators. With the collapse of the tyrannical Ba’ath regi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Fadl Abdulghani, the director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), says the organization has documented over 6,000 regime officers involved in war crimes under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. In an interview, Abdulghani called for the prosecution of all those involved, urging Syria’s new government to swiftly establis...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency David Barnea held talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha to discuss a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, Israeli media reported. Israeli news portal Walla said Barnea’s visit to Qatar was part of efforts to reach a deal with […]...
The White House has reaffirmed its commitment to locating American journalist Austin Tice. He has been missing in Syria since 2012. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized that finding Tice is a “top priority” for the Biden administration. The U.S. is collaborating with Türkiye and other nations, though specifics re...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The family of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israel in the West Bank, will meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, a family spokesperson confirmed to Anadolu on Wednesday. Family members, including her father Mehmet Suat Eygi, sister Ozden Bennett, and husband Hamid Ali, will als...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A pair of lawmakers in the House of Representatives urged the Biden administration Wednesday to implement a “deliberate and phased” lifting of sweeping sanctions on Syria after the end of Assad family rule. Reps. Joe Wilson and Brendan Boyle said in a letter to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that th...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken was confronted by a Democratic lawmaker Wednesday while testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the continued flow of weapons to Israel, despite its war crimes in Gaza. Joaquin Castro, a representative from Texas, sharply criticized the “inhumane” actions by...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of Palestine supporters repeatedly disrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony Wednesday before a House of Representatives panel on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan. One protester shouted: “Bloody Blinken” and “Butcher of Gaza” as Blinken began his remarks. A second demonstrator, hold...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army Thursday morning killed at least 37 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes that targeted guards escorting aid trucks as well as homes sheltering displaced people across the war-torn Gaza Strip. A medical source told Anadolu that 15 Palestinians were killed and 30 others injured in two Israeli ...
