WASHINGTON (AA) – An American citizen and a lawful permanent resident have been released “after being unjustly detained” in Afghanistan, the State Department announced on Friday. Safiullah Rauf and Anees Khalil are now in Qatar, and will travel back to the US from there, spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. “Unjustl...
KABUL (AA) – At least five people were killed in a bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Friday, said a local hospital. According to a statement by Herat Hospital, 25 people were injured in the attack that hit the Jibril area of Herat city. Some of them were in critical condition. Eyewitnesses claimed that 10 […]
ANKARA (AA) – Important steps are ongoing to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, Turkiye’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “We didn’t have a negative attitude towards Saudi Arabia in terms of normalizing relations, either commercially, economically, or politically,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told Turkish news broadca...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkiye will provide an additional $5 million in aid to Afghanistan, the Turkish deputy foreign minister announced Thursday, saying Ankara will continue to stand with the Afghan people. Speaking at a UN high-level pledging conference, Sedat Onal said it is in the common interest of all nations to stabilize Afghanistan, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Countries neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday urged the US to return its properties and help reconstruct and develop the war-torn country. “We urge the Western countries led by the United States to earnestly fulfill their primary responsibility for the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan, return the property of the Af...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – More than 30 lawmakers have been summoned by Tunisia’s anti-terrorism unit, the country’s parliament speaker said on Thursday. “This is a serious development,” Rached Ghannouchi told the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television, without giving any further details. There was no comment from the Tunisian presidency on Ghannouchi’s...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN secretary general on Thursday warned the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the past months and appealed for “unconditional” $4.4 billion in aid for the war-stricken country. “Together with our partners, we aim to reach 22 million people with food, water, healthcare, protectio...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Sudan’s de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday started his first official visit to Egypt since last year’s military coup. Burhan, greeted on arrival by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a ceremony broadcast live on state television, was accompanied by the head of general i...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Qatar on Wednesday opened one of the world’s biggest sports museums with artefacts from some of the most famous Olympic heroes. The 19,000 square metre 3-2-1 Museum Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, next to one of the stadiums to be used in this year’s World Cup, has taken more than 15 […]
Algiers, Algeria – AFP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having a “deadly” impact on the Arab world, particularly through spiralling wheat prices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Algiers Wednesday. He was speaking on the final leg of a trip that began with an unprecedented summit in an Israeli kibbutz, attend...
