ISTANBUL (AA) – Qatar has denied media reports claiming it has withdrawn from mediation efforts to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, saying the efforts are stalled temporarily. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari said “the media reports about the State of Qatar’s withdrawal from mediation r...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 27 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said an Israeli strike in the eastern town of Aalamat in Jbeil district killed 20 people, including three children. It added that six more were injured in the attack, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The US has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, Israeli reported said on Sunday. According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Defense Ministry signed a major contract to purchase around 130 D9 bulldozers from US machinery maker Caterpillar. The newspaper, citing I...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Red Crescent Society has sent its third relief plane carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Khaled Al-Maghames, said: “The situation in Lebanon faces significant challenges that require increased support an...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has demanded that the next week’s joint Arab-Islamic follow-up summit take responsibility for the occupied city of Jerusalem, which is undergoing a “systematic Israeli Judaization campaign.” “It is time for the Islamic nations to fulfill their religious and political du...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The WHO chief has warned about the escalating crisis in northern Gaza, noting that a famine is imminent there. “Deeply alarming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, referring to new findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The data, he noted, indicates that “ther...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically dismissed allegations of involvement in a plot to assassinate former and current US officials, including President-elect Donald Trump, calling the claims “completely unfounded.” In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei rejected accusations made by the US D...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 17 more Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted a school and a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported that they received the bodies of nine people killed in an Israeli attack […...
ISLAMABAD / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have died and 46 others are injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a [&he...
CAIRO (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed increasing efforts to establish a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call on Saturday. Al Nahyan and Blinken exchanged views on the recent developments in the Middle East, particularly the humanitarian situation in Gaz...
