ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s military conducted airstrikes in Zamfara state, “neutralizing” dozens of gang members, the Defense Ministry said late Thursday. Bernard Onyeuko, the deputy spokesman for the ministry, said aerial raids dubbed “Operation Hadin Kai” targeted gang elements in the Bakura region and 82 armed gang members were killed....
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine has cut off diplomatic relations with Syria as the latter recognized the self-proclaimed independence of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “There is no doubt that the Syrian regime is trying to give pseudo-subjectivity to the Russian occupying administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk at the behest of its Kremlin ...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Sweden fully supports the NATO accession agreement reached with Türkiye, the country’s prime minister has said. “We are 100% behind the agreement,” Magdalena Andersson told reporters. Sweden and Finland had formally applied to join the alliance last month- a decision spurred by Russia’s war on Ukraine. However, Türkiye voiced ...
MADRID (AA) – Washington “should sell” F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, adding that he is confident that the needed congressional approval will be obtained. “We should sell the F-16 to Turkey. I said that in December and my position hasn’t changed since then. It’s not in our interests […...
PARIS (AA) – The Brussels Criminal Court delivered a three-year suspended prison sentence on Thursday to Abid Aberkane, the last “landlord” of the now-convicted Salah Abdeslam, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris, according to French newspaper Le Monde. Aberkane hosted Abdeslam in Brussels in the spring of 2016, as he fle...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigerian state government in Jigawa confirmed Thursday that a citizen duped villages into demolishing mosques after assuring them his “foreign non-profit organization NGO” would build newer, larger structures. Abba Haruna, 21, allegedly sold items he received from the mosques in the rural state in northern Nigeri...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed in protests Thursday demanding the reversal of the military takeover in Sudan, according to a local medical group. The fatalities occurred as security forces used violence against protesters in Omdurman, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Doctors said in a statement. It said dozens of dem...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – UN special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has said she will recommend alternative ways to move stalled talks in light of continued differences between rivals. In a statement following a meeting in Geneva between the presidents of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh and High Council of State, Khaled al-...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Indirect talks between Iran and the US to revive the 2015 nuclear deal ended in the Qatari capital Doha without a result, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News reported. Tasnim, citing sources, said the talks mediated by the EU ended, for now, blaming the cessation of the talks on the US insistence on […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has agreed to allow an Israeli national to enter the Gaza Strip, in a bid to bring back communications regarding a prisoner swap deal with Israel, Israeli media said on Wednesday. According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Gazan activist Sami Obeid and Yoel Marshak, head of the ...
