RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said a 21-year-old man was shot in the shoulder by Israeli forces and admitted to a hospital in the city of Qalqilya. The statement said the […]
ANKARA (AA): The Turkish armed forces killed 11 PKK fighters in northern Syria who were preparing to attack areas cleared of “terrorists” following Turkiye’s military operations, the National Defense Ministry said on Saturday. “Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) continue to destroy terror nests in northern Syria,” th...
Elad, Israel (AFP): Israel conducted a large-scale manhunt on Friday for a pair of Palestinians accused of killing three Israelis in an axe attack that came as the Jewish state marked its founding. The attack on the night of 5th May in Elad, a central city mainly populated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, was the sixth in […]
ANKARA (AA): Charter flights carrying the presidents of Turkiye and Azerbaijan will land at Turkiye’s Rize-Artvin Airport this month — marking the first landing at the facility. The airport will be inaugurated on May 14 in the presence of Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The air...
NEW YORK (AA): US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield will visit Turkiye’s southern border with Syria this weekend, through which much-needed humanitarian aid is carried to millions of Syrians in the war-torn country. The visit to the Cilvegozu Border Crossing, located in Hatay province, which lies opposite the Bab al-Hawa Borde...
BEIRUT (AA): Lebanon’s parliamentary elections for expats kicked off on Friday. The voting has opened in 10 countries in the first phase: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan and Iran. The second phase for the voting abroad, scheduled on Sunday, will take place in 48 other countries. Lebanese Foreign Min...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Saudi-led Arab coalition said on Friday that a plane carrying Houthi prisoners took off from Saudi Arabia to Yemen. The Saudi Press Agency quoted the coalition’s statement as saying “the first plane transporting Houthi prisoners to Yemen has left the Kingdom as part of the Saudi humanitarian initiative...
ANKARA (AA) – Bangladesh police detained at least 450 Rohingya refugees celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr on a beach in the town of Cox’s Bazar, police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Rafiqul Islam told media that the refugees were detained as part of “security measures” in the country’s largest resort district. ...
ANKARA / PARIS (AA): A mosque affiliated with Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in France’s northeastern province of Metz was attacked on Thursday night. The mosque was damaged in a fire that broke out after unknown persons lobbed three Molotov cocktails on the walls of the mosque. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Ali Durak, presi...
DUHOK, Iraq (AA): A Danish cyclist died from his injuries Thursday after his bike hit a landmine in Duhok province in northern Iraq. The landmine in Kani Masi village in Amedi district detonated when two Danish cyclists were passing through the region, local media reported. One of the cyclists succumbed to his injuries, according to […]
