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...
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and injured 16 more people in a massive military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the deceased as Mohammad Musa Saabaneh, 29, according to the official Wafa news agency. The Israeli military [&hell...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. “Two young men were killed. Samer Khaled, 25, was killed by a bullet in the neck, and Yazan Afana, 26, was shot in the heart,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. It […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnians gathered Sunday to commemorate the 27th anniversary of a massacre that claimed 43 lives and injured nearly 84 in Sarajevo. The 1995 Markale marketplace shelling was one of the biggest massacres committed during the siege of Sarajevo from April 1992 to December 1995. It was the second mortar attack that [&hellip...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has voiced concern about Israel’s closure of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations in the occupied West Bank. “We are concerned about the Israeli security forces’ closure of the six offices of the Palestinian NGOs in and around Ramallah today,” State Department spokesman Ned P...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The government of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has sacked two university professors and two officials, accusing them of their involvement in “secessionist” activities against the Indian occupation. A government statement said activities of the sacked persons “had come to the adver...
ANKARA (AA) – The US National Security Adviser has said that the attack on author Salman Rushdie is “appalling”. “We’re all praying for his speedy recovery,” Jake Sullivan wrote on Twitter. “And we’re thankful to good citizens and first responders for helping him so swiftly.” Rushdie’s agent told the N...
Erie, United States (AFP): The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges on Saturday, as the severely injured author appeared to show signs of improvement in hospital. Hadi Matar, 24, was arraigned in court in New York state, with prosecutors outlining how Rushdie had been [&helli...
