DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Eleven soldiers were killed and 20 injured in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, the army announced Thursday. The military headquarters in the Madjoari department of Kompienga province in eastern Burkina Faso was directly targeted by artillery and gunfire, according to the army statement. Following the attack, 15 te...
WASHINGTON – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed a range of issues on Thursday with his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz, including Iran, the war in Ukraine and tensions between Israel and Palestine. “The Secretary reiterated the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security and to maintaining Israel’s qualitative ...
ANKARA – The US Treasury Department has announced that it imposed sanctions on six individuals and eight companies that have ties with Hezbollah. The Treasury said its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated sanctions against Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah_ a Lebanese businessman and Hezbollah financial facilitator_ as well as five...
ISTANBUL – A member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) has announced her withdrawal from the ruling coalition government. Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi – an Arab lawmaker from the leftist Meretz Party – said that she will not “support a coalition that is disgracefully harassing the society I come from.” Zoabi cited the governme...
Kfeir, Lebanon – AFP: Firas Hamdan, activist-turned-lawmaker- is one of 13 independent politicians who emerged from a mass anti-government protest movement in 2019, and made it to parliament on a reformist platform in the recent elections. The 35-year-old lawyer and another independent- Elias Jarade- both won seats from allies of the pow...
KAZAN, Russia (AA) – Gathering Russian and Islamic world economy professionals, the Kazan Summit 2022 kicked off on Thursday in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan. The 13th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Summit 2022, began with the opening ceremony of the “Russia Halal Expo 2022&#...
Beirut – AFP The head of Lebanon’s powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah called Wednesday on parliamentary factions to cooperate, following elections that saw no bloc achieve a majority and the representation of independent lawmakers rise. Nobody “can claim that the majority belongs to this or that group,” said Hassan Nasr...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s government asked the US on Wednesday to pressure the Houthi rebel group to break its seven-year siege on the southwestern Taiz province. The request was conveyed during a meeting between Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington DC, according to...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish forces killed 19 PKK fighters in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The PKK men attempted to attack the Operation Peace Spring, Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield zones, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of operations across its border in northern Syria: [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cargo ship came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah port, a monitoring group run by the British navy said on Thursday. In a statement, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations group (UKMTO) said the attack on the vessel happened 34 nautical miles off the coast […]
