RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The Moroccan army on Monday confirmed participation in an international military conference in Israel this week. A military statement said a delegation led by Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Belkhir El-Farouk, is taking part in the conference in Tel Aviv which will run from Sept. 12-15. “Partic...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Three members of the government-affiliated Security Belt Forces (SBF) were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Yemen on Monday, according to a local military source. The fatalities occurred when a device exploded in Mudiyah district during an operation to hunt down al-Qaeda militants in Abyan province, the source said on...
Mehar, Pakistan (AFP): Beyond a hastily erected embankment protecting Mehar city, hundreds of villages and swathes of farmland are lost beneath the water — destroyed by floods that have affected nearly a third of Pakistan. “Nobody knows where their village is anymore, the common man can no longer recognise his own home,” Ayaz...
Hatra, Iraq (AFP): Strolling along the ancient ruins of Hatra in Iraq’s north, dozens of visitors admired the site, where local initiatives seek to turn over a new leaf after a brief reign of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Designated an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO, Hatra dates back to the 2nd […]
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is in Germany in his latest diplomatic effort to persuade Western powers to ditch their tattered nuclear deal with the Jewish state’s arch nemesis Iran. Israel has long opposed a revival of the 2015 accord, which has been moribund since then US president Donald Trump unilaterally ...
ANKARA (AA) – Four Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Iraq while conducting an operation to clear the area of “terror elements”, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Infantry Specialist Sgt. Harun Yildirim and Infantry Specialist Sgt. Savas Borlu were killed during clashes with “terrorists” in the O...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Southern Transitional Council (STC) said Sunday its forces captured sites held by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen’s southern Abyan province. The move came days after the STC said it had launched a military operation in Abyan to cleanse it from terrorist organizations. A military spokesman, Mohamed al-Naqeb, said STC f...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of panicked citizens have left a densely-populated district in southern Pakistan, following a fresh spell of floods, adding to the growing number of displaced people, officials and local media have reported. The Dadu district of southern Sindh province has been surrounded by floodwaters, leaving only one pass...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Muslims continue to be the target of hate, bullying and discrimination as a result of the stereotypes that were perpetuated by Islamophobes and the media in the years following the 9/11 attacks, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (C...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth succumbed to injuries on Sunday, which he had sustained from Israeli army fire in the West Bank city of Jenin earlier this week, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said Hamad Mustafa Abu Jelda, 24, had been seriously injured in an Israeli military raid in the […]
