ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia- AFP The “heinous” killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into “wider conflict”, the chair of a Saudi-based Islamic bloc told a summit on Wednesday. The comments from Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara came as a senior Iranian official said during the sa...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Batoul and her family have been scrambling to secure housing outside Beirut’s southern suburbs where an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander last week, but spiking demand has sent prices soaring. Many in the southern suburbs — a packed residential area known as Dahiyeh which is also a Hezbo...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas will continue Gaza cease-fire negotiations after the selection of Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief, a group leader said on Wednesday. “The negotiations were managed by the leadership, and Sinwar was not far from the negotiation process. He was part of its details,” Osama Hamdan told Anadolu. Hamas named Sinwa...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that “no one should escalate” the conflict in the Middle East and Washington has communicated that message directly to Iran and Israel. “No one should escalate this conflict. We’ve been engaged in intense diplomacy with allies and partners, commun...
Annapolis, United States – AFP The United States will not tolerate attacks on American troops in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after rocket fire in Iraq wounded seven US personnel. The Monday attack was the third in just over three weeks on Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, which hosts American […]
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has sparked outrage by suggesting it might be “justified and moral” to let two million Palestinians in Gaza starve. He said it will bring pressure on Hamas to return Israeli prisoners. Smotrich’s comments at a conference hosted by right-wing news outlet Israel Hayom have been condemned as genocidal by ...
Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election, has praised Walz for his commitment to working families. The Trump campaign has called Walz a “dangerously liberal extremist.” Analysts say Walz’s progressive policies, such as providing free ...
