RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new secretary for the executive committee of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Hussein al-Sheikh was named Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee. Al-Sheikh, who is also a member of the PLO’s Central Committee and Fatah group, was born in the West B...
WASHINGTON – The prospects for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that world powers struck with Iran are exceedingly dim, President Joe Biden’s chief envoy for the talks has said amid an ongoing diplomatic impasse. “Of course, as I speak to you, we do not have a deal and prospects for reaching one are tenuous, at […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israel reportedly told the US that it was behind the killing of an officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran this week, according to The New York Times. Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayee was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday by two gunmen on a motorcycle. […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday Tehran is committed to reaching a deal during the Vienna nuclear talks, but that US interests and foreign policy have been “taken hostage” by Israel. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he accused the Biden administration of ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday gave a six-day deadline to the government to announce early elections. Khan arrived in Islamabad late on Wednesday night after an hours-long journey, and facing huge resistance from police. His supporters reached D-Chowk near parliament ahead of Khan’s a...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP): Seconds before he presents a news bulletin, Afghan television anchor Nisar Nabil puts on a black mask as a symbolic protest against the Taliban authorities for ordering women presenters to cover their faces on air. Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women and [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply denounced North Korea on Wednesday after Pyongyang carried out a series of ballistic missile tests overnight, calling them a threat to security in the region and beyond. State Department spokesman Ned Price emphasized that the tests are in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, which prohi...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israeli forces have fired five teargas canisters toward the town of Al-Adaysah in southern Lebanon. Witnesses said Lebanese marking the anniversary of the Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon hurled rocks at a border fence with Israel. The National News Agency said Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the ce...
ISTANBUL – China has said its joint military exercises around Taiwan were intended as a “stern warning” against “collusion activities” between the US and Taipei. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently organized joint combat-readiness patrols and real combat training exercises involving multiple services and arms in the waters and...
Sanliurfa, Turkey- AFP Hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, which shares a long border with Syria. Civil war in Syria is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011. A new wave of economic ...
