JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days to “further enhance” the alliance between the two countries. “In recent days, I have spoken three times with US President-elect Donald Trump. These were very good and impo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call not to escalate the situation in Ukraine, a report said Sunday. The call took place Thursday, The Washington Post reported, adding that Trump reminded Putin of the considerable US military presence in Europe. The call, if confirmed, would mark th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Qatar has denied media reports claiming it has withdrawn from mediation efforts to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, saying the efforts are stalled temporarily. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari said “the media reports about the State of Qatar’s withdrawal from mediation r...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 27 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said an Israeli strike in the eastern town of Aalamat in Jbeil district killed 20 people, including three children. It added that six more were injured in the attack, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The US has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, Israeli reported said on Sunday. According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Defense Ministry signed a major contract to purchase around 130 D9 bulldozers from US machinery maker Caterpillar. The newspaper, citing I...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Red Crescent Society has sent its third relief plane carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Khaled Al-Maghames, said: “The situation in Lebanon faces significant challenges that require increased support an...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The WHO chief has warned about the escalating crisis in northern Gaza, noting that a famine is imminent there. “Deeply alarming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, referring to new findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The data, he noted, indicates that “ther...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 17 more Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted a school and a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported that they received the bodies of nine people killed in an Israeli attack […...
CAIRO (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed increasing efforts to establish a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call on Saturday. Al Nahyan and Blinken exchanged views on the recent developments in the Middle East, particularly the humanitarian situation in Gaz...
WASHINGTON (AA) – American Muslim leaders who refrained from backing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris say their decision was based on the current administration’s support for the “genocide” taking place in Gaza. Following Republican nominee Donald Trump’s victory in the Nov. 5 election, representatives from sev...
