WASHINGTON (AA) – The Supreme Court rejected Thursday a plea from a Guantanamo Bay detainee to learn more about his torture through two former CIA contractors. In a 6-3 vote, the top court upheld the federal government’s claim of “state secrets” privilege in Abu Zubaydah’s case, allowing the secrecy claim even tho...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Hundreds of doctors and health workers in Khartoum protested against violence by Sudanese security forces at healthcare facilities. The protest was organized by the Sudanese Doctors Syndicate near the government-run Khartoum ENT Hospital. The participants held banners urging authorities to respect the sanctity of hospit...
ANKARA (AA) – Greece’s discriminatory policy towards its Muslim Turkish minority violates its obligations under European Union law, a European political party said Wednesday. In a letter to the European Commission, the president of the European Free Alliance (EFA), Lorena Lopez de Lacalle, asked about the steps they would take to ensure ...
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan claimed on Thursday that its security forces had foiled an Indian submarine’s attempt to enter its waters on March 1. A spokesperson for the Pakistan Army accused India of deploying a submarine with ‘ulterior motives’ against Pakistan. According to Major General Babar Iftikhar, given the prevailing security env...
More detais are emerging in the killing of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Neighbors say they had no idea that he was the head of the terrorist group. When U.S. forces flew over the Syrian town of Atme, wherel-Qurashi was hiding, resident Mahmoud Shehadeh mistook the sound of helicopters for a storm. In the […]
Rohingya Muslims living in refugee settlements in Bangladesh say the Feb. 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar is a barrier to sustainable repatriation. Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung Suu-Kyi was ousted and jailed in the coup, along with many of her party’s leaders. Refugee Mayyu Khan said escalating tensions have made re...
Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, the senior-most cleric in Iran, served in key constitutional bodies. TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Top Iranian clerk Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, regarded as the senior-most jurist in the Shia-majority country, passed away early Tuesday at the age of 103. Golpaygani, a formidable figure in Iran’s religious seminary of Qom,...
There are around 4,650 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, according to Palestinian NGOs. RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces rounded up 27 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian NGO on Monday. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said in a statement that two yo...
A military source says Syrian air defence intercepted the missiles and downed some of them. ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli warplanes carried out a missile attack early Monday near the Syrian capital Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported. “The Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of Riya...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Braving harsh winters, Syrian fathers stay awake at night to make sure their children do not to freeze to death in opposition-held Idlib. Hundreds of tents in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Idlib along the border between Turkey and Syria were destroyed recently by heavy snowfall and downpour. The [&he...
