ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli air raid on Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least three soldiers, Syrian state media reported Thursday. The missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and struck military installations, said the Syrian News Agency (SANA). Seven troops were also wounded and the attacked facilities suffered ...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): An angry and grieving Iraq on Thursday buried nine holidaymakers — including a newlywed — killed in the artillery bombardment of a Kurdish hill village. The government has blamed neighboring Turkey, which denied its troops were responsible and instead accused rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Par...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye did not carry out any attack against civilians in northern Iraq’s Duhok province, the country’s foreign minister has stated. “According to information we received from the Turkish Armed Forces, we did not carry out any attack on civilians,” Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. Cavusoglu’s remarks came ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Wednesday said the US exhibited “bandit behavior” by what Beijing called “stealing” oil from Syria. According to the Chinese daily Global Times, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was responding to reports about Washington transferring “stolen oil” to northern Iraq from “occupied Syrian oilfields.” “Bandit ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia and Egypt have expressed a desire to develop bilateral military cooperation. Addressing a joint press conference in Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed to further enhance ties between the two countries. “I think we can cooperate with Egypt mi...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – The first batch of 41 families who were forced to flee their homes in 1993 when Armenian soldiers occupied their village in Zengilan, Azerbaijan’s southwest region, have begun to return home. A group of 60 people, or 10 families, returned their homes in the Agali village, which is located on the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a senior Hamas leader in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, according to his son. No reason was provided for Al-Rajoub’s detention. The Hamas leader was released by Israeli forces in January after eight months in administrative detention. The policy of administrative det...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Since US-led foreign forces completely withdrew from Afghanistan last August, around 700 people have been killed and over 1,400 injured, most of them by a local branch of the ISIS, according to a UN report released Wednesday. The deaths and injuries were predominantly caused by IED attacks attributed to ISIS-Khorasan Province (...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi judiciary has launched an investigation into leaked audios attributed to former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he attacked Iraqi politicians. Iraqi journalist Ali Fadel earlier published audios allegedly attributed to al-Maliki during a meeting in which he termed Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as “murderer” and “...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s public prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into the recent arrest at the country’s main international airport of 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast. Mali’s military government said last week that it had arrested the soldiers upon their arrival in the capital Bamako after they were f...
