ISTANBUL (AA) – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) will hold its annual meeting in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh from Wednesday. The four-day meeting will start under the main theme of “Beyond Recovery: Resilience and Sustainability” and will be attended by ministers from 57 member countries and representatives of Islam...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has discovered 250 mummies and 150 bronze statues dating back 2,500 years at the famed necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo. In a statement, Mostafa Waziri, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the find includes 150 bronze statues of different sizes of various ancient Egyptian deities such as Anubis, [&hellip...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Palestinians in Beirut on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of a deadly attack carried out by members of the Japanese Red Army at Israel’s Lod airport. Kozo Okamoto, the only surviving member of the three-man commando that killed 26 people on May 30, 1972, at the airport near Tel Aviv, made […]
DEIR EZ-ZOUR, Syria (AA) – Rockets were fired at the US-controlled Al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria early on Monday. The oil field in Deir ez-Zour province is Syria’s largest and has a presence of US personnel and the YPG/PKK group. The rockets, fired from regions where Iran-backed foreign terror groups are known to be […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese authorities have released dozens of political detainees one day after lifting a state of emergency in the country. “At least 33 political detainees have been released today after the lifting of the emergency,” said Samir Shaikh Aldin, a spokesman for the Emergency Lawyers advocacy group. He said 24 prisoners wer...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU has added a group and two people to its list of sanctions against the ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorist organizations. “The measures target Hurras al-Din, a Syria-based al-Qaeda affiliated group, its leader Faruq al-Suri, and its religious leader Sami al-Aridi,” read a statement from the European Council. The group has been [&he...
ANKARA – The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on the Muslim leaders to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli settlers’ incursions into the sacred precincts. In a statement issued late on Sunday, the IUMS Secretary-General Ali Al-Qaradaghi said the Muslim Scholars “strongly condemn these provocative attempt...
GENEVA – A new round of meetings involving the Syrian Constitutional Committee seeking a solution to the ongoing war in Syria has started in Geneva. Members of the “Small Group” responsible for writing the constitution, consisting of 15 representatives from the Bashar Assad regime, non-governmental organizations, and the Syri...
ISTANBUL – Karanfil Grup, a Turkish company conducting cruises between Istanbul and Libya’s seaport Misrata, has created an important touristic and business link between Turkiye and Libya. Murtaza Karanfil, chairman of the board of Karanfil Group, stressed that the cruises are one of the biggest indicators that the relations betwee...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Around 100 people were killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in northern Chad last week, the government announced Monday. The violence broke out on May 23 and 24 at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, some 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) northeast of the capital N’Djamena ...
