WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Tuesday that it is unclear whether Iran will ever agree to a nuclear deal, but if it is willing to make “difficult decisions,” one could be reached “very soon.” “We are still working through a number of difficult issues. As I said before, the onus is on Tehran to […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly was inaugurated Tuesday, with academic Aboubacar Toguyeni elected as its head. Toguyeni received 59 votes out of 70 in a secret ballot in the nation’s capital, Ouagadougou, beating two challengers. The 58-year old teacher-researcher succeeds Bala Alassane Sakande, whose man...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sanctioned Sudan’s Central Reserve Police (CRP) on Monday due to alleged “serious human rights abuses” it carried out against anti-coup protesters. In announcing the penalties, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US was acting to “hold to account those perpetrating abuses and to det...
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired drones and missiles at Saudi water and energy desalination facilities causing no causalities, but a temporary drop in output at a refinery. The drone strikes and ballistic and cruise missiles used by Houthis hit Yanbu’s gas plant, the Yasref refinery in the Yanbu Industrial City on the Red [&he...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced that it has thwarted a booby-trapped boat attack south of the Red Sea. A coalition statement said the boat was destroyed in al-Hudaydah in western Yemen. The statement said the attack targeted navigation south of the Red Sea, without giving further details. According to the [&helli...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on Sunday announced the formation of a committee to hold dialogue on drafting an election law. Dbeibeh told a ministerial meeting that the committee will include independent figures representing the country’s different regions, the state news agency reported. He added that t...
KHARTOUM, Sudan –At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the violence between March 5 and 12 in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ibrahim Adam Osman, a member of the local Doctors Committee, said hundreds were admitted into Elgenena hospital since the violence started. “What we saw is a massacre with brutal attacks against [&hel...
GENEVA (AA) – Syrians will be confronting additional hardship as a result of the Ukraine crisis, Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs the International Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, has said. “Inflation is already skyrocketing. The government has begun rationing essential commodities, including ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye killed three PKK fighters near the country’s border in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkish forces targeted three PKK “terrorists” who attempted to attack the zone of Operation Euphrates Shield, an anti-terrorist military operation, the ministry said. Since 2016, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Arab Council on Thursday reiterated full support for the right of the Syrian people to determine their future. The human rights body made the commitment on the 11th anniversary of the Syrian uprising, which began in March 2011 with popular protests demanding the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. The anniversary comes ...
