ANKARA (AA) – France’s foreign minister on Monday called for a permanent cease-fire in the Middle East. “For four months now, Gazans have been under bombs and living under an almost total siege. They are deprived of minimal aid that would let them cure their wounds, protect themselves from epidemics, and feed themselves. They cannot [&he...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been handed over to the Taliban administration, local media reported Sunday. Afghan envoy Ahmed Khalid Alemi, who was appointed during the period under the leadership of Ashraf Ghani, handed over his duties to Charge d’Affaires Maghfrullah Shahab, wh...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in attacks by Israel. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Blinken is expected to […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the Deir al-Balah region of central Gaza in 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged enclave, local officials said Sunday. The Israeli army carried out air attacks on the homes of civilians in Deir al-Balah and bombed a mosque in the same […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said Sunday that two of its fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with southern Lebanon. Hezbollah did not provide any details about the circumstances leading to their death, saying they were killed “on the road to Jerusalem”, a phrase used by the group...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Another Israeli soldier has died in the Gaza Strip, according to the country’s army on Sunday. Shimon Yehoshua Asulin, 24, from the 924th engineering battalion of the Southern Command’s Harel Brigade, died in the south of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said in a statement. With the latest death, the number [&helli...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinians, including a child, were injured on Sunday by Israeli army gunfire in the city of Nablus and the Shuafat refugee camp, east of Jerusalem, according to Palestinian health authorities. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its ambulance crews treated an 18-year-old youth ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Scores of Palestinians were reported killed in overnight strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after Hamas said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory. Gaza’s health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had be...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since its war on Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday. “Since the beginning of the war, we have attacked, from the ground and air, more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah spread […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran has condemned the US military attacks in Iraq and Syria. In a statement, Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said the strikes were in “violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Iraq and Syria as well as international law, and a blatant breach of the UN Charter.” […...
