ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended a dinner reception in his honor Tuesday hosted by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkey (TOBB) in the Turkish capital Ankara. Sharif arrived in Türkey on a three-day official visit on Tuesday. M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu, the head of the TOBB, welcomed Sharif and [&...
BEIRUT – Veteran politician Nabih Berri has been re-elected Lebanon’s parliament speaker for the seventh time in a row, holding onto his record as the longest-serving head of a legislative assembly in the Arab world. Berri has maintained the position thanks to the 1989 Taif Agreement, which established a power-sharing deal among the country’s ...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AA): The Turkish national defense minister Hulusi Akar met his UAE counterpart Mohammed Bin Ahmad Al Bowardi in Abu Dhabi and discussed bilateral and regional issues, as well as cooperation in military training and the defense industry. Akar’s visit is the first from a Turkish defense minister to the UAE [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday refused to commit to calm amid Israeli escalation in the occupied East Jerusalem. “Mediators are seeking to get pledges from Hamas on avoiding escalation, but this is rejected,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency. “We can’t speak about calm at a...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli prime minister on Tuesday published documents allegedly testifying that Iran stole the UN atomic agency’s classified record and evaded probes by the watchdog. Naftali Bennett shared on Twitter a link to files he claimed to be stolen International Atomic Energy Agency documents, along with Persian-language ...
DUHOK, Iraq (AA) – Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city dating back to the Mittani Empire around 3,400 years ago in the Tigris River in Duhok province, Iraq. “We found a 3,400-year-old ancient city in Semel district of Duhok dating back to the Mittani period,” Bekes Birifkani, director of historical artifacts and culture i...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Palestinians in Beirut on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of a deadly attack carried out by members of the Japanese Red Army at Israel’s Lod airport. Kozo Okamoto, the only surviving member of the three-man commando that killed 26 people on May 30, 1972, at the airport near Tel Aviv, made […]
ANKARA – The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on the Muslim leaders to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli settlers’ incursions into the sacred precincts. In a statement issued late on Sunday, the IUMS Secretary-General Ali Al-Qaradaghi said the Muslim Scholars “strongly condemn these provocative attempt...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Nine civilians were killed in landmine explosions in war-torn Yemen over the last three days, a local NGO said on Monday. In a statement, Yemeni Landmine Records said a woman and two children were among the victims. Eight other civilians were injured by the explosions, which took place in al-Hudaydah and […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed six PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Monday. The PKK “terrorists” were killed in the Operation Claw-Lock region, the ministry said on Twitter. Turkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock last month to target PKK hideouts in northern Iraq’s Met...
