TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – European Union’s coordinator for Iran nuclear talks held wide-ranging discussions with Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday in a bid to close remaining gaps on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. Enrique Mora met with Ali Bagheri Kani, who has been leading Iran’s team of negotiators in Vienna since November, after ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijani forces thwarted a provocation attempt by Armenian forces in the recently liberated Nagorno-Karabakh region, the country’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday. The ministry said that illegal Armenian forces in the region – which was liberated in fall 2020 from decades of Armenian occupation – took advan...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US confirmed on Friday that it has canceled talks with the Taliban over the hardline groups’ decision to cancel secondary education for Afghan girls. State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter told reporters that the Taliban’s decision is a “potential turning point in our engagement” with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers. Th...
RIYADH – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has said that an Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah was attacked by Houthis. A coalition statement said that Saudi Aramco’s Bulk Plant in Jeddah was targeted with an “act of aggression” by Iran-backed Houthi militia. The statement added that following the attack, a fire erupted in...
KARACHI, Pakistan – A crucial session of Pakistan’s lower house, the National Assembly, summoned to table a no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan has been adjourned until next week. Speaker Asad Qaisar adjourned the session until March 28 after making prayers for some deceased former members of the House. Opposition par...
ANKARA – The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have endorsed the appointment of a special envoy for Africa. Meeting on March 22-23 in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers passed a resolution endorsing the bloc’s appointing Nassirou Bako Arifari as special envoy, the 57-nation Musli...
ANKARA – Turkish forces “neutralized” two YPG/PKK fighters in Syria and Iraq, the National Defense Ministry announced. One fighter was ‘neutralized’ during an attempt to infiltrate the Operation Euphrates Shield zone in northern Syria, while the other was targeted in the Operation Pence-Yildirim area in northern Iraq, the ministry ...
On Thursday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry called for launching intra-Yemeni dialogue “away from foreign interference” to settle that nation’s crisis. Yemen is facing “the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the century,” a ministry statement said. This was on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition’s war and blockade....
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for military cooperation with Morocco. The MoU was signed during a visit by an Israeli military delegation to the North African nation. According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli army delegation was headed by Tal Kelman, the military [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Women foreign ministers from 18 countries on Friday expressed their concern over the suspension of schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade in Afghanistan. “As women and as foreign ministers, we are deeply disappointed and concerned that girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary schools this spring,” for...
