JERICHO, PALESTINE (AA) – A young Palestinian man succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday after he was shot by Israeli forces in the eastern occupied West Bank district of Jericho. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Ahmad Ibrahim Oueidat, 20, was shot with a live bullet in the head during an Israeli military raid into […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed 10 PKK fighters in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. They were targeted in the areas of Operations Peace Spring, Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch, Turkiye’s cross-border offensives, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of operations...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to defend on Tuesday ongoing negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top diplomat emphasized that former US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” and decision to unilate...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq said Tuesday it had hosted a fifth round of tension-easing talks between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahaf described the talks between the two neighbors as “positive”. “The atmosphere of the negotiations was calm and there was a state of positivity and understanding,̶...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed as an explosion ripped through a van at a university in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Tuesday, police said. The explosion targeted the vehicle near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language learning cen...
BAGHDAD (AA) – An Iraqi soldier and two ISIS terrorists were killed in a security swoop north of the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the defense ministry. A ministry statement said security forces raided a hideout for ISIS terrorists in al-Boghbin, 50 km north of Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier and two terrorists, including a […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A businessman was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment on Monday for his involvement in the attempt to overthrow the Turkish government in 2016. The trial of 17 defendants including Turkish businessman Osman Kavala and nine fugitives over allegations regarding the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt in Turkiye a...
JERUSALEM, WEST BANK (AA): An Israeli court sent the file of the Palestinian family that has been fighting the eviction order from its house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem to the execution judge for the evaluation of the objections on Tuesday. An appeal hearing was held at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court […...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – India’s decision to effectively ban its citizens from studying in Pakistan has put in jeopardy the future of hundreds of Kashmiri students. Scores of students from Indian-administered Kashmir are currently enrolled in Pakistani medical and engineering colleges and universities, while a similar number have completed their...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have accused the UN refugee agency UNRWA of procrastinating the reconstruction of their homes destroyed during last year’s Israeli war. This came in a protest organized by Palestinian factions outside the UNRWA office in Gaza City. “I have the right to safe housing,” and &#...
