BEIRUT (AA) – Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port partially collapsed on Sunday, four days before the second anniversary of the massive 2020 explosion in the Lebanese capital. The northern part of the silos collapsed as a result of a weeks-long fire which has blown massive clouds of smoke across the port. After the collapse, [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that one of its members guarding an Israeli captive was killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip last year. Abu Ubaidah, a spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a brief statement that three other guards were injured in […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Fierce clashes erupted on Sunday between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces in the border region of Hirmand in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. Afghan media citing Taliban authorities said at least one Taliban soldier was killed and another wounded in the violence. While the Taliban authorities h...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabab publicly executed seven people, including a soldier, for alleged spying in southwestern Somalia, according to local media. The seven men were executed by firing squad in Buula Fulay in the Bay region, as witnessed by many bystanders, according to the terror group’s propaganda ...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has warned the interim Taliban government in Kabul that failure to resolve the protracted dispute over shared water resources could affect cooperation between the two neighbors. In a phone call with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called for an “expeditious and serio...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Shabaab militants launched a fresh attack on a Somali town located near the border with Ethiopia on Friday. The attacks took place in the town of Aato in Bokol region near Ethiopia’s Somali region, where Liyu police, a counterinsurgency force, operates. Al-Shabaab rebels later claimed responsibility for...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping has said that Beijing will strengthen cooperation with Iran. “China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Iran within Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and other frameworks,” Xi told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in a phone call. The phone call was held while the SCO is holding a s...
TEHRAN (AA) – The number of casualties from floods caused by heavy rains in villages around Iran’s capital Tehran has risen to 18, officials said Friday. Hasan Nami, head of the National Crisis Center, said: “One person died due to the flood in the village of Veskare, east of Tehran, and 14 vehicles were submerged.” […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported on Friday after a bomb blast targeted senior regional government officials in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa, officials said. A security official in Baidoa told Anadolu Agency that initial reports said Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, justice minister in the South West State, is among t...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a village near Ramallah, central occupied West Bank, on Friday. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the 16-year-old succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli forces’ firing in the village of Al-Mughayir. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israel...
