GENEVA – A new round of meetings involving the Syrian Constitutional Committee seeking a solution to the ongoing war in Syria has started in Geneva. Members of the “Small Group” responsible for writing the constitution, consisting of 15 representatives from the Bashar Assad regime, non-governmental organizations, and the Syri...
ISTANBUL – Karanfil Grup, a Turkish company conducting cruises between Istanbul and Libya’s seaport Misrata, has created an important touristic and business link between Turkiye and Libya. Murtaza Karanfil, chairman of the board of Karanfil Group, stressed that the cruises are one of the biggest indicators that the relations betwee...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Around 100 people were killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in northern Chad last week, the government announced Monday. The violence broke out on May 23 and 24 at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, some 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) northeast of the capital N’Djamena ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and four others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Monday. The target of the blast in Afgoye, located some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, was Hussein Jibril, the town’s former deputy mayor, a police officer told […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Nine civilians were killed in landmine explosions in war-torn Yemen over the last three days, a local NGO said on Monday. In a statement, Yemeni Landmine Records said a woman and two children were among the victims. Eight other civilians were injured by the explosions, which took place in al-Hudaydah and […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed six PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Monday. The PKK “terrorists” were killed in the Operation Claw-Lock region, the ministry said on Twitter. Turkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock last month to target PKK hideouts in northern Iraq’s Met...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egypt and the European Union (EU) in the coming weeks to export natural gas to EU countries, the country’s energy minister said on Monday. Karine Elharrar told the Israeli Army Radio that Israeli and European teams are working on setting cooperation between them [&helli...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s best-known peace activist Abdullahi Mohamed Shirwa died in the country’s capital Mogadishu early on Sunday, officials said. He was 72. Tributes pour in the wake of Shirwa’s death after illness as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble were amon...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The head of Sudan’s ruling military council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, on Sunday lifted a nationwide state of emergency that was imposed after the military seized power in a coup in October last year. In a statement, the ruling Sovereign Council said the order was lifted “to prepare the atmosphere for a [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A total of 372 civilians were killed and 754 others injured in the last three years due to mines planted by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, according to a local NGO. The Houthis have placed thousands of anti-personnel and land mines as well as explosives of various sizes in many parts of the […]
