The Taliban-led Afghanistan administration has started giving land to Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran. This initiative involves distributing agricultural and residential plots as part of a broader scheme to help these repatriates reintegrate. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s representative, said the program aims to provid...
Israel’s military has launched 34 airstrikes in the last 24 hours, killing at least 71 Palestinians including children and a journalist in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian Government Media Office condemned these as “horrific crimes.” At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since Friday dawn. The assaults have intensifi...
TEHRAN (AA) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Tehran in order to protest the execution of six Iranian nationals convicted of drug trafficking in the kingdom. Iran delivered a formal protest note to the Saudi ambassador to Tehran, Abdullah bin Saud Al-Anzi, expressing its strong opposition to the execut...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s foreign ministry has said that it has summoned Iran’s ambassador in Rome and requested the immediate release of journalist Cecilia Sala. Sala was arrested on December 19, while in Tehran for carrying out reporting under a regular press visa, according to the ministry. Her arrest was unveiled more than a week […...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) — Tunisian authorities retrieved the bodies of 27 irregular migrants after their boat capsized off the country’s eastern coast, a health official says. Hatem Al-Sharif, regional health director of Sfax province, said 25 other migrants were rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Kerkennah Islands on Wednesday. He sai...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza police chief and his deputy have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement said Mahmoud Salah and his deputy Hussam Shahwan were killed in a dawn strike by the Israeli army. Several people were reportedly […]
As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives gears up for its 119th session, a significant controversy has emerged within its ranks. Thomas Massie publicly criticized a component of the proposed rules package designed to protect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution. This reaction follo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Several Arab countries have condemned the car-ramming attack that killed and injured dozens in New Orleans on Wednesday. A white F-150 pickup truck plowed through the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 30 others. The FBI identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A ministerial committee of the Palestinian Authority has suspended all operations of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank. The committee, made up of officials from the ministries of culture, interior and communications, also temporarily halted the work of Al Jazeera’s journalists, staff, teams and affiliated channel...
DAMASCUS (AA) – Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh late Wednesday in his first overseas visit since the removal of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The trip was organized at the invitation of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, citing an...
