TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has announced the launch of a satellite into the highest orbit yet amid escalating tension with the West over its ballistic missile program. In a statement published by state media, the aerospace unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it launched into orbit the Sorayya satellite with an indigenous [&helli...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least two people were killed on Saturday as an Israeli drone targeted a car in southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle near Tyre City on a road between Bazouriye and Borj el-Shamali towns, resulting in two deaths, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. Another attack targeted [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 280 injured in Gaza in 24 hours, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 280 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. “Many people [&helli...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call Friday that he still backs future statehood for the Palestinians, the White House said, amid tensions between the two leaders over the issue. “The president still believes in the promise and the possibility of a two-state...
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said Friday it was “seriously concerned” about reports that a Palestinian teenager with dual US citizenship had been killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. “We’re seriously concerned about these reports. The information is scant at this time, we don’...
Damascus, Syria – AFP An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Isra...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP Houthis claimed another attack on a US ship early Friday, after the United States launched fresh strikes in Yemen. While the Houthis said they had struck the commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the US military later said the group’s missiles had missed their mark. The Houthis said in a […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani and Iranian foreign ministers on Friday spoke over the phone and discussed the latest situation after the two neighbors launched airstrikes against “terrorists” in each other’s territory. According to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, Jalil Abbas Jilani told his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahi...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has climbed to 24,762, the Health Ministry in the territory said Friday. In a statement, the ministry added that 62,108 other people had been injured in the offensive. “The Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres of families in […]
TEL AVIV – AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed American calls for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel must retain “security control over all the territory west of the Jordan River”...
