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...
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...
