ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will pay a visit to Türkiye on Thursday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. Bilateral relations and regional issues will be discussed during the visit, the ministry said in a statement. Earlier on Sunday in a phone call, Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked his Turkish ...
NUR SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan will not recognize the self-proclaimed independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has said. “If the right to self-determination is put into practice all over the world, then there will be over 600 countries instead of the 193 states that are current...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani army on Sunday claimed to have killed at least six suspected militants in a security operation in the southwestern Balochistan province. The suspected terrorists, who were killed in the mountainous Parom area of the Panjgur district, located 557 kilometers (346 miles) from the provincial capital Que...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pre-monsoon rains killed at least seven people, flooding large parts of Pakistan in the past 24 hours, officials and local media said on Sunday. Flashfloods washed away several bridges and roads, submerged farmlands, and knocked out power in many parts of the southwestern Balochistan province. Torrential downpour...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Türkiye on June 22, the Turkish president announced on Friday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after Friday prayer in Istanbul, told reporters that during the Saudi crown prince’s official visit to the capital Ankara on June 22, they will discuss ways to take bilateral relations...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said on Friday he has no plans to sit down with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader as he prepares to visit the Kingdom next month. Asked if he would meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden said, “I’m not going to meet with” him. “I’m going […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An Israeli observation balloon went down in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the military. A military statement said the incident was being investigated by the army. No reason was provided for the crash. Palestinian activists shared a video and photos on social media showing the fallen Israeli [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s northeastern border district of Sylhet has been inundated by massive floods in less than one month, marooning more than 1 million people and causing property damage, according to officials. All 13 sub-districts of the tourist-hub region, famous for tea gardening, have been flooded from days-long heav...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s former top military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed to stop a plot against 500 Americans, according to former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “General Soleimani was engaged in a plot to kill another 500 Americans. We had the opportunity to take down that plot, and we did,” Pompeo said in [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed nine PKK fighters near the Turkish border in northern Iraq, authorities said on Saturday. The fighters were targeted in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Twitter. Türkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock in April to target the PKK’s hideouts in Iraq’...
