ANKARA – Protests continue in Iran over hike in food prices and a shortage of commodities in the country. Protests were reported in the cities of Borujerd and Dorud in the western Lorestan province, in Gunkan and Farsan in Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province and the city of Dehdasht in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran. [&hel...
ANKARA – Iran blocked more than 9,000 bank accounts on Saturday over ‘suspicious and illegal foreign currency and cryptocurrency activities.’ A total of 9,219 bank accounts belonging to 545 individuals were blocked, according to a statement by the Ministry of Intelligence. The volume of the accounts was approximately 60 trillion Ir...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – The Rotterdam Court in the Netherlands has ruled that the government should bring back 12 ISIS women and their 29 children from Syria. The court ruled that the women and children should be brought back to the country within four months if the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office does not want to lose […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has issued a general license to exempt northern Syrian territories, including those controlled by the PKK’s regional branch, from American sanctions. The Treasury Department’s action lifts prohibitions on business activities in 12 different economic sectors in northern Syria, including agriculture, te...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – The Palestinian Authority has welcomed international participation in an investigation into the death of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. “We welcome the participation of all international bodies in the investigations into the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh,” Palestinian Minister of Civil Af...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has condemned a German ban on activities marking the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of the state of Israel in historical Palestine. Observed on May 15 annually, the Nakba Day, or the Catastrophe Day, marks the 1948 forced expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their ho...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has condemned calls by Israeli settlers to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, terming it “dangerous escalation.” “The calls to storm Al-Aqsa, on the anniversary of the Nakba, are a dangerous escalation, and a provocation to the sentiments of our peo...
AMMAN (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s remarks on “sovereignty” over Masjid al-Aqsa in the occupied East Jerusalem have brought up questions on Jordan’s role in guarding the holy sites. The government is responsible for all decisions related to Jerusalem and the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex without a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply disturbed” by the actions of “some” Israeli officers who violently attacked slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession, his spokesman said on Friday. Guterres “was deeply disturbed by the confrontations between Israeli sec...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth on Saturday succumbed to injuries he sustained from Israeli army fire last month, according to the state news agency Wafa. Walid al-Sharif, 23, was shot in the head by Israeli forces inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on April 22. “He died of his wounds […]
