TEHRAN (AA) – Iran on Monday said it is seriously pushing for an end to sanctions in the Vienna talks, urging the Biden administration to abandon the previous government’s “maximum pressure” policy toward Tehran. At a weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Biden’s team must do away with [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An international economic summit to encourage cooperation between Russia and the Islamic world will be held in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, from May 19-21. The 13th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World: KazanSummit 2022, aims to foster cooperation in trade, economy, science and t...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Sardar Tanveer Ilyas of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was elected as the new prime minister of Azad Kashmir on Monday. Ilyas, a businessman and close friend of Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, was elected unopposed, state-run Pakistan Television reported. The opposition alliance led by the Pakis...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish army killed 13 PKK men in northern Syria, near Turkiye’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said on Twitter that the “terrorists” attempted to attack an area falling under Turkiye’s Operation Peace Spring zone. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s military will release political detainees to create a favorable atmosphere for dialogue in the country, according to the army chief. “We have started procedures to release political detainees within two or three days,” Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a statement. He said the move aims to “set the atmosphere ...
TAL ABYAD, Syria – The Assad regime and the YPG/PKK group are mutually easing the blockades they imposed on each other in northeastern Syria’s Al-Hasakah and Aleppo provinces with the mediation of Russia. The Assad regime and YPG/PKK representatives have met in the Qamishli district of Al-Hasakah via Russia. The parties decided to loosen...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has decried plans by lawmakers to form a “national salvation” government overseas as a “coup attempt”. “Those behind this attempt have not been arrested, and we have not demanded that,” Saied said in a video clip shared by the presidency during his Saturday meeting with Justice Mi...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Opposing legislators wrestled with fists and roughed each other up on Saturday in a provincial assembly in Pakistan just moments before the election of a new chief minister. The provincial assembly was convened on the orders of a high court in Lahore, Punjab’s capital, to elect the province’s new chief minister, ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven Pakistani troops were killed in an ambush by suspected militants near the Afghan border, according to a military statement on Friday. The incident, which ranks as one of the deadliest attacks in recent months, took place in the Isham area of the restless North Waziristan district when a […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – About 60,000 Palestinians performed the second Friday prayers of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem. Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, director general of the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem, told Anadolu Agency that the number, though big, is still less than the usual number at this time of the Musli...
