Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Usama Adawi, 18, was killed “by occupation live fire to the stomach in the Al-Aroub camp”, in the southern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli military...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 18 Assad regime soldiers were killed in a blast on Thursday that targeted their military bus in rural Damascus. The state-run SANA news agency said 27 others sustained wounds from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident. Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early […]
ANKARA (AA) – Ankara will continue to support Kazakhstan’s territorial integrity, stability and peace, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. “We will continue to support the stability, peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity of brotherly Kazakhstan, which has a deep historical background and state experience,&...
ANKARA (AA) – A vehicle of the Azerbaijani Embassy came under fire in Washington, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has claimed. The attack took place in the early hours of October 11, according to the ministry. The ministry said it summoned the US charge d’affaires in Azerbaijan and expressed “serious concern and dissatisfaction over the incid...
ANKARA (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan met on Wednesday in the Kazakh capital Astana. Their meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the Ministerial Council meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), focused on the implementation of trilateral agreements involv...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Facing a backlash from the US, Saudi Arabia has denied accusations that political motives were behind the decision by oil producer group OPEC+ to cut production by 2 million barrels a day. “Saudi Arabia does not politicize oil. We don’t see oil as a weapon. We see oil as our commodity. Our […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A major electricity outage struck several parts of southern Pakistan, including the financial capital Karachi on Thursday, after power was disrupted due to an “accidental fault” in the transmission system. “Due to an accidental fault in the country’s southern transmission system, several southern power ...
Paris, France – (AFP): Rights groups have voiced alarm over the extent of an Iranian crackdown on a Kurdish-populated city that has become a hub for protests. Oil refinery workers in the Kurdish town took industrial action in a new tactic. Iran has been shaken by over three weeks of protests that erupted after the […]
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Israeli authorities on Wednesday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. “Israel shut the mosque to Muslim worshippers for two days due to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot,” Nidal al-Jabari, the director of the Waqf Department in Hebron, said. He […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said in a statement that 776 settlers had stormed the Islamic holy site since morning. Accor...
