NEW DELHI (AA) – India and Bangladesh on Tuesday signed seven Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and launched work on five projects. MoUs on water sharing, railways, space, science, and judiciary were signed in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina in the capital New Delhi. In a stat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A senior Yemeni commander was killed in an attack by al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Tuesday, according to local authorities. The government-aligned Security Belt Forces (SBF) said al-Qaeda militants attacked a security checkpoint in Ahwar district in Abyan province. Yasser Shaye’, commander of the 1st Battalion, ...
ANKARA (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Cairo on Tuesday with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. They discussed the situation in the Palestinian territories and Israeli violations of Palestinians’ rights, the state news agency Wafa reported. The two leaders also discussed efforts aimed at reviving the ...
Najaf, Iraq (AFP): In a sunbaked cemetery in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, fresh are the graves of loyalists to Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr who were killed in clashes in Baghdad last week. So too is seething anger following the face-off between the cleric’s supporters, rival Iran-backed factions and the army that left more […]
LONDON (AA) – British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Monday resigned her post hours after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was elected by Conservative Party members their new leader. Truss will meet Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday where she will be formally named prime minister and asked to form a new government. She will then announce […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s political groups held a second round of national dialogue on Monday in an effort to resolve the country’s months-long political crisis. A statement by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office said participants agreed to form “a technical team” to bring viewpoints closer “with a view to holding early election...
LONDON (AA) – British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday was elected by Conservative Party members to lead her party and become the nation’s next prime minister. Truss, 46, got 81,326 votes to 60,399 votes for former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, 42. Turnout was 82.6%. Truss did not get the landslide many commentators […]...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad al-Halbousi on Sunday called for setting a date for early elections amid tension over failure to form a new government. The call came one day after Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi urged the country’s political parties to hold a new round of national dialogue on Monday to resolve Iraq’s [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Lawmakers affiliated with Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday filed a lawsuit challenging the acceptance of their resignation from Parliament. In June, 73 MPs from the Sadrist movement resigned amid a parliamentary standoff over the formation of a new government in Iraq. Parliament Speaker Mohammad al-Halbousi later issued a ...
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...
