KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan and Iran have agreed to send back their ambassadors to their respective posts, reflecting a thaw in strained relations following an exchange of missile attacks on each other’s territories last week. “Following the telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed at least 190 people and injured 340 others in the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the territory said Monday. This pushed up the total Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly assault on the besieged enclave since Oct. 7 to 25,295. A ministry statement […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Ram temple built at the site of the demolished 16th-century Babri Mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya. Modi arrived in Ayodhya to participate in the consecration ceremony called “Pran Pratishtha,” also attended by 8,000 guests, including senior offic...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas published a 16-page report on Sunday highlighting the motives behind its Oct. 7 attack on Israel and its connection to the Palestinian cause while also countering Israeli allegations. The report, titled “Our Narrative…Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, said Operation Al-Aqsa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel unless the Palestinian issue is resolved, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told US news outlet CNN in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday. Responding to a question about whether there could be no normal ties without a path to a credible […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria, in what Iran called an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during Israel’s war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five member...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP The EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday insisted on a two-state solution as he told Israel it couldn’t build peace “only by military means” ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats. The bloc’s 27 foreign ministers were set to hold separate meetings with their counterp...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said Sunday that the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip will be a “suicidal step.” “Gaza must be ruled by Israel or by an international force for a year or two,” Chikli told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He argued that the Ramallah-based Palestinian […...
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed that an Israeli attack that killed five military advisers “will not go unanswered.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that five of its military advisers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. In a statement, Raisi’s office termed th...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 178 Palestinians were killed and 293 injured in 24 hours as Israeli forces continued their onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Sunday. “The Israeli occupation committed 15 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 178 martyrs and 293 injured during the past 24 [...
