JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Tuesday forced their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said 622 settlers stormed the site in groups under heavy police protection and...
HAKKARI (AA): A Turkish soldier was killed during Turkiye’s newly launched cross-border operation in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said late Monday. The ministry said in a statement that First Lieutenant Omer Delibas was injured in the Operation Claw-Lock area due to a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED). He succumbe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday summoned Swedish Ambassador Liselott Andersson to protest the burning of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden. A statement by the UAE Foreign Ministry said the envoy was summoned by Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy to convey the Gulf state’s protest agains...
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s newly formed presidential council was sworn in Tuesday before parliament in the southern Aden city. Chairman of the council, Rashad al-Alimi, and seven other members took the oath before the House of Representatives in the temporary capital, Aden, a government source told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity beca...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed recent violence in Israel and occupied West Bank, Palestine, the State Department said Tuesday. The diplomats had a telephone call Monday, said spokesman Ned Price. “The Secretary and Foreign Minister discussed the importanc...
KABUL (AA): At least six people were killed and 11 others injured after multiple blasts hit a boys school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an official of Taliban-led interim government said. The explosions targeted Abdul Raheem Shaheed High School, which is located in the city’s district 18, said Khalid Zadran, a Kabul police s...
DHAKA (AA) – Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry criticized a US human rights country report on the South Asian nation, saying the sources of the report are questionable and it also contains a few factual errors. “For example, though we do not endorse their information, the Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) mentioned 275 extrajudicial killings (in Ban...
KABUL (AA): More than 130 children have died from the measles epidemic in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. After the US army withdrew from the country, international aid was cut off and the economic crisis deepened. Children are the most affected by war, hunger and poverty. At least 16,000 children have been infected […]
DOHA, Qatar – Qatar’s Shura Council has condemned Israeli attacks on worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. We express our “condemnation of the Israeli practices of storming the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking Palestinian worshipers,” the advisory council stated. It called for swift “internat...
SANAA, Yemen – UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg arrived in the country’s interim capital Aden for talks with government officials. The UN envoy was accompanied by Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Ali Al-Maqdashi and Faraj Al-Bahsani, a member of the newly formed Presidential Council. On April 17, Grundberg held talks in the Saudi capital, Riya...
