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...
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...
