TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has asked for clarifications about the questioning of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi by Tunisian authorities, a former parliamentarian said on Saturday. Maher Madhioub said in a Facebook post that the IPU’s Human Rights Committee requested clarifications from Tunisian authoritie...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said they will reject any extension of UN-brokered truce with the Yemeni government. In a statement, the group’s Supreme Political Council dismissed reports about “renewing the ongoing truce in the country,” the Houthi-run Saba news agency reported. “The truce in which the aggressor failed t...
ANKARA (AA) – The foreign ministers of Türkiye and Iran on Saturday discussed preparations for a high-level meeting, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Mevlut Cavusoglu and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held the discussion after the Iranian foreign minister paid an official visit to Türkiye on June 27. The presidents of the thr...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Arabia has said it will continue to bolster its partnerships with both the United States and China. “We build bridges with people; we don’t see one as exclusive of the other,” Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, said in an interview with CNBC network on Saturday. “China [&h...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Saturday that the US would not leave any vacuum in the Middle East region to Russia, China, or Iran. “We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia, or Iran,” Biden said at an Arab-American summit in the Saudi […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed by Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military said on Saturday in a statement. The fatalities occurred in attacks by Houthi rebels over the past two days despite a UN-brokered truce between the warring rivals. According to the statement, nine soldiers were also injured. The statement docume...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi security forces captured 26 suspected members of the ISIS in security swoops across Iraq, authorities said on Sunday. Seven suspected ISIS members were arrested in an ambush in the northern Kirkuk province on Saturday, the Iraqi National Security Service said in a statement. Security forces also nabbed 12 suspects in the [...
JEDDAH CITY, Saudi Arabia (AA) – President Joe Biden pledged on Saturday to provide Jordan with $1.45 billion in assistance every year. The pledge was made in a joint statement issued following a meeting between Biden and Jordanian King Abdullah II on the sideline of a US-Arab summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan said Saturday that 31 people were killed in tribal clashes in the Blue Nile state near the border with Ethiopia. The clashes between Hausa and Birta tribes erupted in the town of Damazin on Friday and spread to other areas in the state on Saturday. The violence was triggered by […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Türkiye was “an attack on democracy, and an attack on a NATO ally,” a former US ambassador in Türkiye and Iraq said on Friday, calling the perpetrator of the putsch a “terrorist organization.” Speaking at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC as it marked [&he...
