SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Mushtaq Ahmad, 55, in the Indian occupied Kashmir was struck with tragedy last year when his younger son died of a drug overdose at the age of 17. “We found him locked inside a washroom and when we opened the door, he was lying lifeless near the toilet,” Ahmad […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian minor died Saturday of injuries he sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to local media. Mohamed Abdullah al-Saher, 16, was shot and injured before being detained by Israeli forces in Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, Friday evening. Al-Saher was transferr...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 rocked Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday, with no immediate reports of casualties or major infrastructural damage. According to Tehran University’s seismology department, the earthquake struck at around 8:07 am local time at a depth of 22 km. The epicenter of the e...
Wuchkai, Afghanistan – (AFP) A ruined village in eastern Afghanistan, just 10 kilometres (six miles) from the epicentre of this week’s deadly earthquake, is struggling back to life as aid trickles into the isolated region. Wuchkai, three hours away from the nearest town of any substance, can only be reached by a narrow, rutted dirt...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP) An Afghan freed after 15 years of detention in the United States’ notorious Guantanamo Bay prison arrived home Saturday to a hero’s welcome. Asadullah Haroon had languished without charge for years at the US detention centre in Cuba after being arrested in 2006 while working as a honey trader travel...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II has said he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle East region. “The kingdom works actively with NATO and sees itself as a partner of the alliance, having fought shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO troops for decades,” he said in an interview with CNBC network. […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The European Commission has released €2 million ($2.11 million) for emergency relief assistance to those affected by the current floods in Bangladesh and India. The support will benefit the affected and displaced people in the worst-hit regions of the two neighboring countries and be channeled through the EU’s hu...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen warned Saturday that its wheat stock is about to run out. “The global food crisis and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have their impact on wheat imports to Yemen,” Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Waed Badhib, said in statements cited by the state news agency Saba. He said around 46% of […]...
Cairo, Egypt – (AFP/AA) Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday hailed Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani’s visit to Egypt as an “important step” for developing ties between Cairo and Doha. Al-Sisi and Tamim held talks in Cairo on Saturday where they discussed bilateral relations and regional developments, t...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP) As a seven-year-old boy in Baghdad, Mohamed Ali had dreams of becoming a goalkeeper — until a car bomb in the central Tahrir Square ripped away his left arm. Today, at age 22, Ali is a member of an all-amputee football team, made up entirely of players who lost arms or […]