ISLAMABAD (AA) – A court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a news channel executive facing sedition charges. Ammad Yousaf, head of news for local broadcaster ARY News, was arrested in the southern port city of Karachi a day earlier. The charges he faced were in connection with comments made by Shahbaz Gill, an […]
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Israel has released the body of a Palestinian female detainee who had died in prison last month. The body of Saadia Farajallah, 68, was handed over to the Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron through the Tarqumiya terminal for preparation for her funeral proceedings. On July 2, Farajallah, a mother of eight, died […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Talks between Lebanon and Israel to demarcate their maritime border have stalled over Tel Aviv’s latest barrage of attacks on the Gaza Strip, a Lebanese lawmaker has said. “The attack on the Gaza Strip delayed the demarcation of the maritime borders between Lebanon and Israel,” deputy parliament speaker El...
Bazarak, Afghanistan (AFP): A year since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are a stronger military force than ever, but threats to their rule do exist. To tighten their grip, the Taliban have poured thousands of fighters into the Panshjir Valley, home to the only conventional military threat the Islamists have faced since their [&...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Ukraine’s special envoy for the Middle East on Thursday accused Moscow of preventing Ukrainian wheat deliveries to the region, addressing the Arab League just weeks after the group hosted Russia’s foreign minister. “Ukraine today has 20 million tonnes of grain ready to be exported, principally to Arab and ...
Ouled Essi Masseoud, Morocco (AFP): Morocco has been hit with a drought. No longer having access to potable running water, the villagers of Ouled Essi Masseoud rely solely on sporadic supplies in public fountains and from private wells. The situation is critical, given the village’s position in the agricultural province of Settat, near t...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Pristina authorities on Thursday of preparing the liquidation of Serbs in northern Kosovo “under the guise of the fight against crime.” He also denied that Serbia wants to attack Kosovo and rejected claims that shots were recently fired at Kosovo police in central S...
ANKARA (AA) – With Sweden and Finland agreeing to cooperate on Türkiye’s fight against terrorism, the three countries are set to convene on Aug. 26 for the first meeting of the joint mechanism committed under the trilateral memorandum, the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday. Addressing reporters on the last day of the 13th Ambassa...
ANKARA (AA) – A deputy speaker of Greece’s parliament has advocated “the necessity of spying on” the country’s Turkish Muslim deputies. Charalambos Athanasiou, who is also a former justice minister and currently a deputy from the ruling conservative Nea Dimokratia (ND) party, was referring to the three Muslim Turkish deputies, who all hail fro...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A recent decision by Israeli authorities to demolish a school in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah amounts to “war on Palestinian identity,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Thursday. “We reject the (Israeli) occupation’s decision to demolish the Ein Samia schoo...
