ISTANBUL – Officials from Afghanistan, Qatar and the US held a meeting on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) that started on Friday. Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani and Tom West, US special representative for...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks with top Iraqi officials on ways to form a government and end a crippling political crisis in the country. He held phone calls with Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, Nouri al-Maliki, leader of the State of Law Coalition,...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan on Friday inducted Chinese-built J-10C fighter jets to its fleet to counter India’s induction of French Rafale jets. The induction ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Chinese envoy in Islamabad, and the services chiefs of Pakistan’s armed forces. “I am fully confident that now no ...
NEW YORK (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a political solution to the civil war in Syria that began 11 years ago. The civil war began when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds of thousands of people have since been killed and millions more displaced, according to [...
ANKARA (AA) – The ISIS on Thursday confirmed that its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in Syria and named his successor. In an audio message, posted on Telegram channels linked to the terror group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi has been named the new leader of the terrorist group. On Feb. 3, US President [&hell...
ANKARA – Turkiye has rejected the “unfounded allegations” levelled by Arab League against Ankara. “We totally reject the unfounded allegations towards Turkiye contained in some of the resolutions and the communique adopted at the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of the Arab League held on 9 March 2022,” a Foreign Ministry statement s...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that Tehran will not give up its regional presence and nuclear program. Speaking at a meeting of the Assembly of Experts, a powerful 88-member body of top clerics that monitors the lawmakers, Khamenei said it is vital for any country to have […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel President Isaac Herzog on Thursday concluded his visit to Turkiye after meeting Jewish community representatives in Istanbul. Herzog arrived in Ankara on Wednesday on a state visit, the first by an Israeli head of state in 14 years. Ahead of bilateral talks with Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Herzog ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani police claimed Wednesday it killed three militants involved in last week’s attack on a Shia mosque in Peshawar that killed 62. Peshawar Police Chief Ijaz Khan told reporters that the suspects, including the “main handler,” were killed in a security operation near Khyber tribal district...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described the visit of President Isaac Herzog to Turkey on Wednesday as an “exciting moment.” Bennett shared a video on Twitter of the official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara and said: “A warm welcome to the President of Israel Isaac Herzo...
