BAGHDAD (AA) – UN special envoy for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert on Friday met prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to discuss the country’s political crisis, state media reported. According to the official Iraqi news agency, Plasschaert said her meeting with the leader of the Sadrist movement “went well.” Plasschaert ...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Hashd al-Shaabi, who is backed by Iran, has rejected the call of Moqtada al-Sadr to dissolve Iraq parliament and hold early elections. Falih al-Fayyad, in a statement to Al-Jazeera, said “the proposal of Al-Sadr to resolve the crisis can be discussed to reach a consensus, however, dissolving the parliament is a big [...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistan government has announced that it is moving the country’s top court to seek the disqualification of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for receiving prohibited funds through foreign sources. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said at a news conference in capital Islamabad that the Law Ministr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of people supporting Bangladesh’s main opposition political party on Thursday held a massive rally in the capital Dhaka to protest the killing of two party members in an earlier demonstration on Sunday. According to sources, the supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed with pol...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria on Wednesday justified the purchase and donation of $3.5 million in vehicles to neighboring Niger Republic. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said the president has the right to approve the purchase after assessing the security situation in such a friendly country. “Nigerians have the right to question. Pr...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr has called for dissolving Iraq’s Parliament and holding early elections. “There will be no place for old faces anymore through a peaceful, revolutionary and democratic process and [holding] early democratic polls after dissolving the current Parliament,” al-Sadr said in a televis...
ANKARA (AA) – Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a UN-mediated truce for an additional two months, the UN envoy’s office announced late Tuesday. A press statement by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg hailed the achievement and urged all parties to strive for lasting peace in the war-torn country. “In the com...
LONDON (AA) – Rishi Sunak, one of the main contenders to become the British prime minister, has been criticized over his proposals to strengthen the government’s anti-terror strategy. Sunak’s plans, which include expanding the definition of extremism and vilifying individuals who are critical of the UK foreign policy, has been described by a f...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s main opposition coalition has called for “new constitutional arrangements” to resolve the months-long political crisis in the country. “A full democratic civilian authority must be established to run transition under new transitional arrangements,” the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said in a statem...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and spokesman for the Al-Shabaab group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday. The announcement marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Muktar Robow, who has spent the last four years under house arrest after a falling-out with ex-president Moham...
