ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Iran need to continue to fight terrorist groups in solidarity, as they stir up trouble for both countries, the Turkish president said in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday. “The PJAK, PKK, PYD, YPG, and FETO terrorist organizations are troublemakers for both Türkiye and Iran. We need to continue the [&h...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Fakhri al-Barghouthi spent 33 years in Israeli prisons for his role in the struggle against the Israeli occupation. Inspired by freedom movements all over the world and believing in the ability to liberate Palestine from Israeli rule, he along with many other Palestinians joined the resistance more than 40 year...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have staged rallies to demand legal protection to detainees held by Israel. “Freedom to Detainees” and “No to Administrative Detention” were among banners waved by protesters during the rally held outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City. “The [&h...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has called on the US administration to step up pressure on Israel to halt plans for new settlement building in the occupied West Bank. The US President concluded a maiden visit to the Middle East region last week that included Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia. “As soon as […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has extended sanctions against Kurdish nationalist groups PKK and TAK, as well as Marxist revolutionary group DHKP/C for another 6 months as it updated its list of ‘terrorist’ entities. The EU’s terrorist list has been renewed and upheld for a further six months,the Council of the European Union a...
ANKARA (AA) – An Australian teenager detained at a prison in Syria’s northeastern city of Al-Hasakah has died, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said over the weekend. In a statement, HRW said Yusuf Zahab’s family reported that he was forced as a child to live under Daesh/ISIS before he was detained. The family was informed by […]
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): Thousands of Sudan’s Hawsa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country’s south. Violence in Blue Nile state, bordering Ethiopia, has killed 60 people and wounded 163 others, including 13 in se...
Sadiqabad, Pakistan – (AFP): At least 18 women drowned and dozens more people are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying a Pakistan wedding party capsized on Monday, officials said. The boat was ferrying about 100 members of one family across the Indus river in a marriage procession between the villages of Machka and Kharor in [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Two earthquakes rattled Afghanistan’s Paktika and Badakhan provinces on Monday, injuring at least 10 people, according to authorities. The eastern Paktika province’s Gayan district, which was severely devastated by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on June 22, was struck again by a quake, injuring at least 10 people. The pro...
PARIS (AA) – France signed a strategic energy cooperation agreement Monday with the United Arab Emirates to secure fuel and gas supplies as it moves to attain energy independence from Russia. Paris sealed the crucial energy deal on the first overseas state visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who arrived in [&hellip...
