ISLAMABAD (AA) – Taliban on Wednesday said the ban on women working in Afghanistan was an internal issue of the country after the UN called the move unlawful. In a statement, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the UN has suspended its activities in Afghanistan and has called Taliban responsible for all the consequences...
ANKARA (AA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will pay an official visit to Türkiye on Thursday, according to Turkish Foreign Ministry. Shoukry will arrive in Türkiye at the invitation of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. “At the meetings during the visit, bilateral relations and regional developments will be discu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Tuesday there is no evidence to suggest that Egypt is supplying Russia with lethal weapons after a leaked American document claimed Cairo secretly planned to supply rockets to Moscow. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi planned to manufacture 40,000 rockets for Russia, according to the Washington Post, wh...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday decided to halt Israeli settler intrusions into Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem until the end of the month of Ramadan. Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, is expected to end later this month. A statement by Netanyahu’s office said the decision w...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israeli forces killed two Palestinians near Elon Moreh, an illegal Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant said on Twitter. A senior Palestinian official told AFP that he had been informed of the death of the two Palestin...
NEW YORK (AA) – An imam in the US state of New Jersey was stabbed during morning prayer on Sunday. Sayed El-Nakib, imam of the Omar Mosque in Paterson, was stabbed by an attacker who hid in the congregation. The attacker, Serif Zorba, 32, was caught on the mosque’s security camera jumping over the congregation […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Tuesday it had thwarted more than 8,000 cyberattacks in the previous Iranian calendar year that ended on March 20. Amir Muhammadzadeh-Lajevardi, CEO of Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC), said as many as 8,321 cyberattacks targeting the country’s critical infrastructure network were successfully...
ANKARA (AA) – A Kuwaiti newspaper has introduced a virtual news anchor as part of a trial aimed at utilizing artificial intelligence in journalism. The anchor was named Fedha, a classic Kuwait name meaning silver, and appeared on the Twitter account of Kuwait News website. The introduction of the virtual news anchor marks a significant [...
KIRKUK, Iraq (AA) – The leader of the Iraqi Turkmen Front has urged the government to elevate the status of two majority-Turkmen districts in Iraq to province. Hasan Turan in a statement on Monday proposed upgrading the status of the Tal Afar district in Nineveh province and the Tuz Khurmatu district in Saladin province, saying […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Yemeni government announced Tuesday its readiness to complete the prisoner swap deal with the Houthi group. “Regarding the deal for prisoners signed in Geneva with the other party (Houthi group) under the auspices of the United Nations, we announce that the Yemeni government team is ready to implement the deal at [&he...
