KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, who was the oldest prisoner at the notorious US detention center Guantanamo Bay, returned to Pakistan on Saturday after more than 18 years, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. In 2003, US intelligence operatives arrested Paracha, now 73, in Thailand on charges of having links to ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least two Pakistan Army troops were killed in a clash with suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the military said. The gun battle took place on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has long been a hotbed of militanc...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported after two bomb blasts shook Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday. One of the blasts targeted the Somali Education Ministry at the busy Zoobe intersection, said a police officer who spoke to Anadolu Agency over phone on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talki...
Malika MacDonald, a domestic violence survivor, overcame several abusers over the course of her life. MacDonald had been on her own since she was 15. She married her abuser when she was only 18. Her then-husband, who was addicted to crack cocaine, threatened to kill her and their two young children. She fled her home […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army arrested 30 Palestinians on Thursday during raids in several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Club, a non-governmental organization, stated that the Israeli army “carried out a campaign of arrests that targeted 30 Palestinians from several governorates...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari, a religious leader and former chairman of Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of Kashmiri parties, passed away on Tuesday. The 86-year-old leader passed away at his residence in Srinagar. He had been ill for several years and was hospitalized for a few days recently. Hurriyat Confe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which underscores the need to combat Islamophobia and hatred against Islam in all its manifestations, has called for “utilizing new and emerging platforms and technological innovations to present truth” about Islam effectively. A declaration adopted at the end of the two-day 12th Co...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq has summoned the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad to lodge protest against drone and artillery strikes in the country’s northern Kurdish region. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahhaf said the envoy was handed a strongly-worded note of protest against the ongoing attacks in the Kurdish region. Earlier, on Wednesday, the mi...
DOHA, Qatar/ ANKARA (AA) – Influential Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died on Monday at age 97, according to his official Twitter account. The Doha-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) also confirmed the scholar’s death in a statement on its website. Qaradawi, an Egypt-born cleric who was based in Qatar, was the ...
NEW YORK (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met the president of the World Jewish Congress in New York on Monday. The meeting with Ronald Lauder took place at the Turkevi Center in Manhattan. It was closed to the media. Earlier, Erdogan met with representatives of various Jewish organizations, including the Conference of Presi...
