ANKARA – Azerbaijan welcomes the talks between Türkiye and Armenia for the normalization of their ties, the country’s foreign minister has said. Jeyhun Bayramov’s remarks came in an exclusive interview in the Turkish capital Ankara, which he visited to attend the 30th Anniversary Reception of Diplomatic Relations with Friendly and ...
ISTANBUL – Brunei has appointed its first woman minister in a government reshuffle ordered by the country’s leader, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Hajah Romaizah, who was serving as the deputy education minister, was promoted to the post of education minister. Bolkiah made the changes in his Cabinet in a special address to the nation bro...
ANKARA – Turkish forces have “neutralized” another 18 PKK fighters in the northern regions of Iraq and Syria, according to the National Defense Ministry. Ten PKK members were targeted in northern Iraq in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the ministry said. It also claimed that the Turkish soldiers seized numerous arms, ammunition, caves, and...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned that anger has built across the occupied territories over Israeli escalation coupled with international silence over the violations. “Palestine deserves to be a recognized state by the international community, and the Palestinian people deserve to live in...
WASHINGTON – An American woman has pleaded guilty to forming and leading an all-female ISIS militant battalion to fight on the group’s behalf in Syria, the Justice Department has announced. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted to having provided material support or resources to a foreign militant organization, and is scheduled to be s...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human right defender held under Tel Aviv’s administrative detention policy for another three months. “The Israeli authorities must immediately release Salah Hammouri,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a st...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory and discrimination against Palestinians are the root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability, and protracted conflict in the region, a new UN report said Tuesday. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, includi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – At least 17 people were killed and several others injured after a passenger train derailed in east Iran early on Wednesday, local officials said. The train was heading from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to the central city of Yazd when it derailed from the track near Tabas, a city in eastern […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Germany and Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to work together to avert a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press conference in the capital Islamabad after a delegation level meeting, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari were of the view ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian judges continued their strike for the second day on Tuesday to protest President Kais Saied’s decision to sack dozens of their colleagues. In a statement, the Association of Judges said 99% of the judges and judicial staff suspended their work as part of the strike. Tunisian judges started a week-long [&hel...
