KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese protesters staged fresh rallies in the capital Khartoum on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Demonstrators in Khartoum and the cities of Bahri and Omdurman waved banners demanding civilian rule amid chants against the military, according to reporters. Protesters...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities are struggling to bring fires that ravaged remote mountain forests under control. “The flames have damaged around 4,600 hectares of forests,” Fouad Assali, head of the National Center for Climate and Forest Risk Management, told the local media. He said firefighters were struggling for a fifth d...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has asked for clarifications about the questioning of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi by Tunisian authorities, a former parliamentarian said on Saturday. Maher Madhioub said in a Facebook post that the IPU’s Human Rights Committee requested clarifications from Tunisian authoritie...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Saturday that the US would not leave any vacuum in the Middle East region to Russia, China, or Iran. “We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia, or Iran,” Biden said at an Arab-American summit in the Saudi […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed by Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military said on Saturday in a statement. The fatalities occurred in attacks by Houthi rebels over the past two days despite a UN-brokered truce between the warring rivals. According to the statement, nine soldiers were also injured. The statement docume...
JEDDAH CITY, Saudi Arabia (AA) – President Joe Biden pledged on Saturday to provide Jordan with $1.45 billion in assistance every year. The pledge was made in a joint statement issued following a meeting between Biden and Jordanian King Abdullah II on the sideline of a US-Arab summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has accused the United States of stoking tension in the Middle East region by resorting to “Iranophobia” following President Joe Biden’s regional tour. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani dismissed accusations against Iran made during Biden’s maiden regional tr...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported in southern Somalia on Sunday as a powerful explosion struck a popular hotel frequented by regional authorities, officials said. The blast was the result of a car bomb that targeted Nur Dob hotel in the town of Jowhar, wounding several people including local authorities, among t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Türkiye was “an attack on democracy, and an attack on a NATO ally,” a former US ambassador in Türkiye and Iraq said on Friday, calling the perpetrator of the putsch a “terrorist organization.” Speaking at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC as it marked [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Belgium on Friday appointed a seasoned journalist as its next foreign minister, local media reported. Hadja Lahbib, the former news anchor of Belgium’s public broadcaster RTBF, was chosen to succeed Sophie Wilmes after she formally resigned, according to the country’s Flemish-language broadcaster VRT. The develo...
