JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday the military operation in the Gaza Strip will continue “as long as necessary.” At least 31 Palestinians have been killed, including six children and four women, and over 250 others injured in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since Friday, according to the Health Ministry. The Israeli [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin Bet on Sunday recommended ending the military offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media. Israeli warplanes on Sunday continued airstrikes in the blockaded Palestinian territory for the third day, as death toll from the attacks soared to 31. More than 250 others were injure...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces detained 19 members of Islamic Jihad in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. A military statement said the arrests were part of operation “Breaking Dawn” against the Palestinian group in Gaza. The army said the detainees were taken into custody for interrogation. Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in the Gaza ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Ethiopia on Saturday said that Al-Shabaab fighters who crossed its borders from neighboring Somalia were routed and 800 of them were killed. In a Twitter post on Friday night, Mustefe M. Omer, president of Ethiopia’s Somali Region state, said that with 800 killed and 100 captured, Al-Shabab’s “misadventure in...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt said it is making contacts to restore calm to the Gaza Strip amid Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory. A statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Cairo was “conducting intensive communications” to “contain the situation in Gaza” and “preserve lives and property.” The statement did not provide any furthe...
Dakar, Senegal – (AFP): Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition has lost its absolute majority in parliament but finished first by a narrow margin in parliamentary polls, provisional results have shown. It is the first time since the West African country’s independence in 1960 that the ruling party’s camp has lost t...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Tens of thousands attended prayers on Friday in Baghdad’s Green Zone in a show of power by Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries agreed to back his call for early elections conditionally. Sadr, a longtime political and religious force in Iraq, has for months been in a political standoff with [&helli...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Several rallies and seminars were held across Pakistan on Friday to mark three years since New Delhi stripped Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status. Islamabad commemorated the day as “Youm-e-Istehsal,” or “Day of Exploitation,” to reiterate its condemnation of the move that resulted in the annexation of the ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two soldiers were killed and three wounded in a suicide attack on a military base in central Somalia on Friday. The attack took place in Kalabeyr, an area on the outskirts of Beledweyne, capital of the Hiran region. Soldiers managed to stop a truck rigged with explosives from entering […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Following rival Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s call, the Coordination Framework coalition has voiced support for any constitutional path to address Iraq’s political crisis, including early elections. However, the coalition wants a government to first be formed under Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, its nominee for the post of prime minis...
