MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb targeted security personnel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Salaad Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency that a soldier and a civilian were killed when a landmine explosion hit a military [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar discussed on Wednesday regional defense and security issues with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammed Asif, who is accompanying Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on a three-day official visit to Türkiye. Akar welcomed Asif with military honors at the National Defense Ministry ...
PARIS – A harmless desire to swim in the public pools with a full-body costume by a group of Muslim women in the southeastern Grenoble city of France has triggered a national outrage this summer. A French court on Wednesday May 25 suspended the decision by the Grenoble municipal council to authorize the long costume […]
WASHINGTON – The prospects for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that world powers struck with Iran are exceedingly dim, President Joe Biden’s chief envoy for the talks has said amid an ongoing diplomatic impasse. “Of course, as I speak to you, we do not have a deal and prospects for reaching one are tenuous, at […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Wednesday with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, on the sidelines of the inaugural US-OIC Strategic Dialogue, according to the State Department. “Secretary Blinken thanked Secretary General Taha for the OIC’s sustai...
BELGRADE, Serbia – There is more Islamophobia in Bosnia and Herzegovina than there is in the rest of Europe, the head of a Muslim organization in the country has said. “Unfortunately, Islamophobia exists in our society. We may suffer it from Bosnians, Croats or Serbs. Islamophobia- we can say- is more common in Bosnia and […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained seven Palestinian students Tuesday who are studying at Birzeit University in the central occupied West Bank. The Asra Media Office, a Palestinian NGO that documents Israeli arrests, said the students are activists and heads of the Islamic Bloc, the Hamas group’s students’ w...
PARIS – The decision by another French city to allow women to wear head-to-toe swimwear at public pools – dubbed ‘burkinis’ – has once again reignited the contentious debate over religious clothing in France. Grenoble in southeastern France became the second city in the country to allow the wearing of burkinis – worn by some ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has issued a general license to exempt northern Syrian territories, including those controlled by the PKK’s regional branch, from American sanctions. The Treasury Department’s action lifts prohibitions on business activities in 12 different economic sectors in northern Syria, including agriculture, te...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has condemned calls by Israeli settlers to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, terming it “dangerous escalation.” “The calls to storm Al-Aqsa, on the anniversary of the Nakba, are a dangerous escalation, and a provocation to the sentiments of our peo...