WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, D.C., faced protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy. With just one week until the presidential election on Nov. 5, Harris held a rally at the Ellipse in the capital, the same site where form...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Representative Pramila Jayapal sharply criticized the Biden administration Tuesday for the lack of movement toward an independent investigation into the killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi last month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. “It has been 53 days since Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was ki...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) faces allegations of hypocrisy for delaying the arrest warrant requests for Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who spearheads the genocidal war on Gaza and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have not had arrest warrants issued for over five months, while the warr...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Major technology companies, defense contractors, and retail chains are under increasing scrutiny and facing boycott campaigns for their direct and indirect support of Israel’s war on Gaza, amid escalating concerns regarding corporate complicity in genocide. As part of Anadolu Ajansi’s series ‘Silent Supporters of Israeli...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that more than 14 million people, including those internally displaced and those who crossed borders, are on the move in conflict-torn Sudan. Eleven million are internally displaced within the country, while 3.1 million are those who have crossed borders, Director-Gene...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli has been killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon following an escalation of cross-border fire from Israel into Lebanon. Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said an Israeli man died from rocket fire in Ma’alot Tarshiha Jewish settlement in the Galilee region in northern Israel. Israeli public broadcaster...
BERLIN (AA) — Germany has recalled its ambassador to Tehran and summoned the Iranian chargé d’affaires in Berlin following the execution of German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd. “We have expressed our strong protest against the actions of the Iranian regime and reserve the right to take further action,” the German Foreign Ministry s...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that it has elected Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem as its new leader. “Hezbollah’s Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of the group,” it said in a statement. Qassem, 71, succeeds Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed i...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 93 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to local authorities. Israeli fighter jets hit a 5-story building in the city as more than 200 people were inside, Gaza’s government […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Monday executed Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German citizen accused of leading a US-based anti-government organization and carrying out terrorist attacks in the country, Iranian state media reported. The death sentence for Sharmahd — who was convicted in February 2023 by a court for conducting terror operation...
