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...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Violence is escalating in the occupied West Bank in the wake of relentless Israeli raids, crackdowns and demolitions. A second attack by Palestinians in retaliation to Israeli assaults has left an Israeli soldier dead. The Israeli army said the soldier, identified as 21-year-old Ido Baroukh, was killed wh...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Iraqi Parliament is set to hold a session on Thursday to elect the country’s new president, Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi has announced in a statement. The statement said that Thursday’s session will have a “single item on the agenda — the election of the President of the Republic.” The move comes as […]...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the death in jail of Altaf Ahmed Shah, a prominent pro-freedom leader in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The demand was conveyed to the Indian charge d’affaires in Islamabad, who was summoned by the Foreign Ministry to protest Shah’s “inhumane custodial...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – President Joe Biden has congratulated the leaders of Israel and Lebanon for having reached a “historic” deal to establish a permanent maritime boundary, ending a long-running dispute between both countries. The agreement “will provide for the development of energy fields for the benefit of both countries, se...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Tuesday he asked French company TotalEnergies to search for gas in the country’s territorial waters. He made the statement as he received a copy of the final draft of a maritime border demarcation deal with Israel during his meeting with Parliament Deputy Speaker...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited a school in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, stressing the need for improvement in the quality of education, particularly for girls. Yousafzai, who is also the “UN Messenger of Peace” with a special focus on girls’ education, is visiting Pakistan to assess...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian protesters remain defiant with students staging sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite restrictions by the government. Videos posted on social media indicated that protests flared at various points in the capital and other cities over recent days, with women burning headscarves and shouting slo...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – After some days of calm, a heavy gun battle between the Myanmar army and the country’s rebel force “Arakan Army” has again started along the border with neighboring Bangladesh. “There was heavy firing throughout the night and we could not sleep at all in fear,” Mohammad Azizul Haq Rana, a ...
