WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration has granted a waiver to release $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds in exchange for the release of five American detainees, according to reports published Monday. NBC News reported that Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently issued a waiver enabling international banks to transfer funds f...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s legal team has challenged the two crucial legislations regarding changes to laws on military and intelligence agencies in the country’s top court. “The Official Secrets Act, the Army Amendment Act have been challenged in the Supreme Court by Imran Khan. He has req...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US State Department on Friday described the act of desecrating religious texts as “abhorrent” when asked about the desecration of the Quran outside the Turkish Center in New York. “We are not tracking the details on this specific incident and cannot comment on the particulars,” a State Department spokesperson said in [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – There are no terms ready for a possible normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the UN national security adviser has said. “Many of the elements of a pathway to normalization are now on the table,” Jake Sullivan told journalists in a press briefing. He said that no terms are ready to […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The US and its allies are pressuring South Asian countries in the name of a so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy to promote their own interests in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. Lavrov was speaking at a joint press briefing with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen in the capital [&h...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned a high-ranking leader and a regional commander within Sudan’s Rapid Security Forces (RSF). Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, the senior RSF official, is being sanctioned for the RSF’s “acts of violence and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US said on Tuesday that the enrichment of uranium up to 60% in Iran “has no credible peaceful purpose.” “No other country in the world today utilizes uranium enriched to 60% for the purposes of its claims,” US State Department’s spokesman Vedant Patel said at a press briefing. Patel further said […]
Near Deir Ezzor, Syria – AFP Kurdish-led forces were sending reinforcements to eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province on Monday amid days of clashes with Arab fighters loyal to a detained local official, an AFP correspondent said. Fighting erupted after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained Ahmad al-Khabil, head of the...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq has denied that a mobilization of US forces within its borders has anything to do with the country itself, saying it is solely about Syria. Khaled al-Yaqoubi, the security adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, spoke exclusively about the stepped up presence of American troops in Iraq in recent […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has discovered and disrupted a human smuggling network that set off alarm bells in law enforcement after it was determined that the effort was led by an individual with connection to ISIS, the White House confirmed Tuesday. “Intelligence alerted us of this human smuggling network,” spokesperson Karine...
