TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian aviation authorities on Monday ordered a Dubai-bound flight to land and forced off the family of a former footballer who has been supportive of protests in the country. Mahan Air Flight W563, which took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and was destined for Dubai, had among its passengers [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s military intelligence does not consider Iran the number one threat to the country anymore, media reports said. Global challenges are the most important threats the country will face in 2023, according to the Hayom newspaper that said Iran is regarded as the second most serious threat. Iran is not the focal...
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq, near the Turkish border, authorities said on Monday. Huseyin Korkmaz was killed when “terrorists” opened harassing fire in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said in a statement. The ministry extended its condolences to Korkmaz’s fam...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university — instead, she will watch achingly as her brother goes without her. Women have been “temporarily” banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban cite the lack of pr...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Three foreign aid groups have announced that they are suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop female staff from working. Their announcement prompted warnings from a top UN official in Afghanistan and from NGOs that humanitarian aid would be hard hit....
ISTANBUL (AA) – South Korea’s military fired warning shots after drones from North Korea crossed the border on Monday. An official with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said its forces “detected multiple unidentified objects, presumed to be unmanned aerial vehicles, in border areas of Gyeonggi province from 10:25 a.m,” according to a ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish security forces have launched yet another operation in the country’s southeast, the Interior Ministry has said. The operation, called the “Eren Abluka Autumn Winter-19 (Sirnak-Bestler Dereler) Martyr Gendarmerie Master Sergeant Serkan Unsal-1,” started in the Sirnak province with 470 security per...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had dismantled an “organized network” with links to the British intelligence agency, arresting seven people, including dual nationals. In a statement, the IRGC’s public relations division in the southeastern province of Kerman said the seven people we...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank early Monday, according to a local official. Ghassan Douglas, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlement building in the northern West Bank, said settlers carried out attacks in the towns of Urif and Burin, south of Nablus. “Settle...
Hasakeh, Syria (AFP): Hundreds of Syrian Kurds staged a protest in northern Syria on Sunday in response to a deadly attack targeting members of the ethnic community in Paris this week. A gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three Kurds. The suspected gunman, a […]