ISTANBUL – The death toll from a building collapse in southwestern Iran has risen to 11, with officials fearing more people could still be trapped under the rubble. Mohammad-Hassan Nami, chairperson of the Crisis Management Organization, said 11 bodies have been recovered so far while the number of injured people increased to 32. Efforts are [...
BELGRADE, Serbia – There is more Islamophobia in Bosnia and Herzegovina than there is in the rest of Europe, the head of a Muslim organization in the country has said. “Unfortunately, Islamophobia exists in our society. We may suffer it from Bosnians, Croats or Serbs. Islamophobia- we can say- is more common in Bosnia and […...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye will continue to stand by the Palestinian people for independent and sovereign Palestine, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye will pursue normalized ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban interim government on Tuesday signed a deal to hand over the country’s four key airports to a state-run United Arab Emirates company. Under the deal, the control and management of four international airports – Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif – will be handed over to the UAE aviation company,...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco and Israel on Tuesday signed 13 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the field of innovation and high-tech industry. The deals are the latest in efforts of Rabat and Tel Aviv to boost their relations since the normalization of their ties in late 2020. The MoUs were signed during a 3-day […]
ANKARA (AA) – Three Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK fighters in northern Iraq, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry alleged on Tuesday. The soldiers were killed while performing their duties as Turkiye launched its latest operation dubbed Claw-Lock in northern Iraq. Four other soldiers were also injured in the attack. Turkiye al...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces on Tuesday demolished a mosque in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities. Israeli forces cited lack of construction permit for razing the mosque in al-Ramadin community near Qalqilya city, the Waqf Ministry said in a statement. Palestinian Waqf Minister Hatem al-Bakri termed ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Two pilots were killed when an F-7 fighter jet crashed near Isfahan province in central Iran on Tuesday, according to state media. The incident took place at around 8:10 a.m. local time (0340GMT) when the aircraft, which had taken off from Shahid Babaei Airbase in Isfahan, crashed in Anarak, nearly 200 […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A European delegation responsible for the European Union (EU)’s relations with Palestinians has cancelled their scheduled visit to the Palestinian territories after Israel had blocked their visit. Manu Pineda, head of the EU delegation, said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not approve their visit. “I regret the deci...
