ANKARA (AA) – A fire completely burnt down a mosque in northern France late Friday night, local media reported, with authorities suspecting an arson attack. The incident took place at the Rambouillet mosque in the Yvelines department of the Ile-de-France region, according to Le Parisien newspaper. An investigation has been launched to as...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday killed a Palestinian man for allegedly stabbing a soldier in southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. It said that the Israeli forces shot dead the man at the Beit Einoun junction, north of Hebron city. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter [&hellip...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has released a bombshell report about serious human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity. The long-awaited report detailed a string of rights violations against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian security forces killed three gunmen from Jund al-Khilafa (Caliphate Soldiers) in the Kasserine province, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. “Joint units of the army, the (gendarmerie) and the national security were able to eliminate three terrorists affiliated with the Jund al-Khilafa orga...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 18 people were killed, including a prominent pro-Taliban religious cleric, and 84 others were injured in a suicide bombing during weekly Friday prayers in Afghanistan’s northwestern Herat city. According to local media, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 18 people and injuring 84 more. Howe...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Lebanon’s state institutions have reached a state of disrepair that mirrors the country’s broader unravelling amid a political crisis and economic turmoil branded by the World Bank as one of the worst globally in modern times. Lebanon’s downward spiral has been met with inaction from authorities, who ha...
Four militants were killed after an ambush in the southern Iraqi city of Basra sparked clashes between rival Shiite factions, a security source said Thursday, days after deadly clashes in the capital. Two members of Saraya al-Salam — an armed faction linked to powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr — were killed when their vehicle cam...
Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (AFP): Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has said he plans to call a snap presidential election this autumn and will reduce the presidency to one seven-year term from the current two five-year terms. In an address to the Central Asian country’s parliament, Tokayev also proposed holding snap parliam...
ANKARA (AA) – Greece’s harassment of Turkish jets over the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Seas could have “dangerous consequences,” according to the spokesperson of Türkiye’s AK Party. “This is something that the world today never wants,” Omer Celik told reporters in the capital Ankara Thursday after...
LONDON (AA) – Shamima Begum, a schoolgirl who left the UK to join the ISIS, has said she was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian intelligence agent. Mohammed al-Rasheed posed as a human smuggler when he helped Begum and two other British girls travel to Syria in 2015. Begum was 15 years old at the […]
