ANKARA (AA) – Fifty Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in recent days in provocations by Armenia, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “A total of 50 military personnel of the Armed Forces, including 42 military personnel from the Azerbaijan Army and 8 military personnel from the State Border Organization, were mart...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The 2016 Brussels terror attacks trial has started amid controversy over glass boxes built for the defendants. With a preliminary hearing, the largest trial in Belgium’s history kicked off with over 960 plaintiffs represented against nine alleged members of ISIS. The perpetrators are accused of carrying out terror attacks in Pa...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Women in Afghanistan are facing “gender apartheid” one year after the Taliban takeover of the country, a former Afghan parliamentarian has alleged. “Time clearly proves that the erosion of women’s rights has been one of the most notable aspects of the Taliban administration to date, and that ...
BAKU (AA) – Azerbaijan said early Tuesday that intense clashes broke out on its border with Armenia between troops of the two countries. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said the Armenian army carried out extensive provocations in the evening hours on the border in the direction of Dashkesan, Kalbajar and Lachin. The ministry said sabotage gro...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The newly elected Muslim cleric (mufti) of the Turkish minority in the Xanthi region of Western Thrace in Greece said Monday that discriminatory practices are being carried out against the Turkish minority in the region. Mustafa Trampa, who was elected as the new cleric on Sept. 9, told Anadolu Agency that the […]
GENEVA (AA) – Afghanistan is facing a deepening human rights crisis under Taliban rule leading to authoritarianism, a UN report claims. In his first report to the Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett catalogs human rights abuses under the Taliban since it seized control of the country in [&...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – The Iraqi Shiite Coordination Framework alliance has said it will stick to the nomination of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for prime minister. In a statement, the framework, a coalition of groups close to Iran, confirmed that it had not discussed the nomination of another candidate. It added that it had reached “adva...
GENEVA (AA) – The acting UN Human Rights chief has said that she is “alarmed” by the targeting of rights defenders by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. Nada Al-Nashi opened the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council, which runs from September 12 to October 7. “I am alarmed by the targeting of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were injured in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, triggering protests, to which the Israeli army responded by live fire. Three Palestinians, including a woman, were injured by Israeli fire during the...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The makeup of Spain’s natural gas suppliers has radically shifted over the last year, according to data released by the operator of the country’s national gas grid. The most striking difference has been the US rising to become Spain’s top natural gas supplier. Its liquified natural gas (LNG), shipped to Spain […]...
