TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s parliament said Tuesday the government it appointed under former Interior Ministry Fathi Bashagha has officially started working from the central city of Sirte. Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh said Bashagha’s government can’t enter the capital “as Tripoli is under the control of armed groups.” “The government offi...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli prime minister on Tuesday published documents allegedly testifying that Iran stole the UN atomic agency’s classified record and evaded probes by the watchdog. Naftali Bennett shared on Twitter a link to files he claimed to be stolen International Atomic Energy Agency documents, along with Persian-language ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, approaching famine-like conditions, the special presidential envoy for drought response has said. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame said 6.1 million Somalis are facing an extreme level of food insecurity while 330,000 children are facing severe acute malnutrition...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) will hold its annual meeting in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh from Wednesday. The four-day meeting will start under the main theme of “Beyond Recovery: Resilience and Sustainability” and will be attended by ministers from 57 member countries and representatives of Islam...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has discovered 250 mummies and 150 bronze statues dating back 2,500 years at the famed necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo. In a statement, Mostafa Waziri, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the find includes 150 bronze statues of different sizes of various ancient Egyptian deities such as Anubis, [&hellip...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Palestinians in Beirut on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of a deadly attack carried out by members of the Japanese Red Army at Israel’s Lod airport. Kozo Okamoto, the only surviving member of the three-man commando that killed 26 people on May 30, 1972, at the airport near Tel Aviv, made […]
DEIR EZ-ZOUR, Syria (AA) – Rockets were fired at the US-controlled Al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria early on Monday. The oil field in Deir ez-Zour province is Syria’s largest and has a presence of US personnel and the YPG/PKK group. The rockets, fired from regions where Iran-backed foreign terror groups are known to be […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese authorities have released dozens of political detainees one day after lifting a state of emergency in the country. “At least 33 political detainees have been released today after the lifting of the emergency,” said Samir Shaikh Aldin, a spokesman for the Emergency Lawyers advocacy group. He said 24 prisoners wer...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU has added a group and two people to its list of sanctions against the ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorist organizations. “The measures target Hurras al-Din, a Syria-based al-Qaeda affiliated group, its leader Faruq al-Suri, and its religious leader Sami al-Aridi,” read a statement from the European Council. The group has been [&he...
ANKARA – The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on the Muslim leaders to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli settlers’ incursions into the sacred precincts. In a statement issued late on Sunday, the IUMS Secretary-General Ali Al-Qaradaghi said the Muslim Scholars “strongly condemn these provocative attempt...
