KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s army said Friday it had given civilians two weeks to evacuate areas in the northern and southeastern regions ahead of a military offensive against terrorists blamed for recent deadly attacks. “A delay of 14 days will be accorded to residents to relocate to safer zones,” army spokesperson Yves Di...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish forces claim to have “neutralized” three more PKK fighters in the northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday. Two militants were targeted in Metina area and one more in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the ministry said on Twitter. Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply the targeted individua...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has reiterated its rejection of the mounting evidence that points to its involvement in the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. In a statement, the Israeli army accused the UN probe of being “biased”, citing Palestinians’ refusal to hand the bullet that killed Abu Akleh to Israel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Newly elected Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud disclosed on Friday that he had tested positive for coronavirus. He added that so far he was asymptomatic. “My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19,” Mohamud, who took office in May after winning the...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 131 Palestinians were injured on Friday by the Israeli army in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli forces fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas at Palestinians staging rallies across the West Bank, including in the northern town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya, and the town of Beita, south [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Friday repatriated a Guantanamo Bay prisoner to Afghanistan after a federal court ruled the US “no longer has a legal basis to detain him.” The Pentagon announced the transfer of Asadullah Haroon al-Afghani from Guantanamo Bay prison after the US District Court of Columbia’s ruling that there was n...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Five irregular migrants died on Friday in an attempt to storm the iron fence surrounding Melilla, a Spanish-administered city in North Africa. The incident took place “as a result of a stampede of migrants and some of them fell from the top of the fence,” Moroccan authorities of the country’s north...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Friday headed to Egypt for a working visit for the first time since 2015. According to a statement by the emir’s office, Amiri Diwan, Al Thani left Rwanda, which he was visiting, for Cairo upon an invitation from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah […]
Sharan, Afghanistan – (AFP) Desperate rescuers battled against the clock and heavy rain Thursday to reach cut-off areas in eastern Afghanistan to find the survivors of the earthquake that struck on Wednesday. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, downing mobile phone towers and power lines while triggering rock and m...
Rahat, Israeli occupied Palestinian territories – (AFP) Archaeologists have unveiled a mosque in Israel’s south that they say sheds light on the region’s transition from Christianity to Islam. The remains of the mosque, believed to be more than 1,200 years old, were discovered during works to build a new neighbourhood in the ...
