Kano, Nigeria — AFP A bombing at a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria killed 19 people and wounded two dozen more, in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said. The blast in Kawuri village in Borno State was one of the deadliest in recent years in northeast Nigeria, where […]
NICE, France (AA) – The arrest in France of political scientist Francois Burgat who has advocated for Palestine has sparked a strong backlash in the country. Burgat, a renowned political scientist who supports the cause of besieged Gaza, was placed in custody over alleged “advocacy of terrorism,” his lawyer said. The European Jewish Organizati...
CAIRO (AA) – The Arab League’s assistant secretary-general has announced that the league has ceased referring to Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization.” In a televised statement on the Egyptian Al-Qahera News Channel the day after he concluded his visit to Beirut, Hossam Zaki said: “In previous Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The language and narrative used in the Western media’s coverage of Palestine over the years has been an effort to legitimize Israel’s crimes, says Ali Abunimah, a renowned Palestinian-American journalist. The founder of the Electronic Intifada website, Abunimah said that the mainstream media’s use of passive language conceals I...
Berlin, Germany — AFP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that serious criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan, after an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a police officer to death. He also said that glorifying or celebrating acts of violence was “against all our values”, and could in...
MOSCOW (AA) – Islam Khalilov, a 15-year-old Muslim boy who saved over a hundred people during Friday’s violent attack on the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow region, says the attack “was a harrowing experience, especially amid a panicked crowd, and gunfire.” Recounting the events in an interview, the teenager described ...
ANKARA (AA) – New Zealand has joined the US and the UK in enforcing sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank amid escalating violence against Palestinians. In a statement, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced travel bans on a number of Israeli settlers who have committ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish security forces have detained six suspects for allegedly passing information to Chinese intelligence about ethnic Uyghur Muslim individuals and groups in Türkiye. Judicial sources said the operation in Istanbul was part of a ‘terrorism’ and organized crime investigation which determined that seven susp...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least six Filipino soldiers were killed during an encounter with militants, believed to be behind last year’s bombing at Mindanao State University, the Philippines army has said. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr, the chief of the army, said the soldiers were killed in an operation against the so-called “terrorist” Dawlah Islamiya...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least four police officers have been killed by ISIS in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a police station, according to media reports. Members of the militant group attacked the station in the Nganzai region in the Borno state where in addition to the slain […]
