ISTANBUL (AA): The US on Friday slapped sanctions on two companies and two individuals for their roles in facilitating Internet censorship by the Iran government. The Treasury Department said Arvan Cloud, an Iran-based technology company, had close links to Iran’s intelligence services and was a key partner in developing a countrywide in...
WASHINGTON (AA): A coalition of dozens of advocacy groups called on the White House Friday to apologize to a Muslim American mayor who was disinvited from an Eid ceremony just moments before it was to begin. Mohamed Khairullah, the longtime Muslim mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, was informed that despite being invited to the […]
NEW YORK (AA): US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held discussions Thursday with top Israeli officials on global and regional issues, including coordination to ”prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and ways to counter threats from Iran and its proxies.” Sullivan hosted Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegb...
WASHINGTON (AA): The Sudanese military’s decision to withdraw from US-mediated peace talks with a rival paramilitary force is “highly unfortunate,” the White House said Wednesday. “We want to see the fighting stop. We want to see the aid get in and it’s hard for that aid to get in to people in Khartoum and around ...
HOUSTON, US (AA): It has been more than 100 years since the massacre that obliterated a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, the families of those killed in one of American history’s darkest chapters of racial violence are still waiting for reparations. The massacre started on May 31, 1921, in the Black north Tulsa […...
ISTANBUL (AA): China on Wednesday contradicted claims made by the US over an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” by a Chinese J-16 fighter jet last Friday. “Long-term US close-in reconnaissance operations on China seriously violate China’s sovereignty security and are a source of maritime safety issues,” said Mao Ning, China’s Foreign Mi...
MOSCOW (AA): The deputy head of Russia’s Security Council has warned that if the West delivered nuclear arms to Ukraine, Russia would have to carry out a preventive strike. Dmitry Medvedev told reporters in Moscow that the West has been supplying Ukraine with gradually heavier weapons since the beginning of the war last year, when [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA): The US Treasury Department has accused Russia’s private paramilitary company Wagner Group of providing missiles to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and “contributing to a prolonged armed conflict.” Earlier on Thursday when the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Wagner’s head in Mali, Ivan Aleksan...
MOSCOW (AA): The Russian Foreign Ministry Friday summoned senior US diplomats to protest what it called “hypocritical and deceitful” remarks by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. “It was emphasized that assurances of American officials that the US does not encourage such attacks on Russia are hypocritical and deceitful, gi...
TORONTO (AA): A man suspected of attacking the Turkish House in New York City earlier this week has been captured as a result of a US police operation. The suspect, Recep Akbiyik, was apprehended by the New York Police Department in the early morning hours on Friday, sources told Anadolu. Authorities identified the assailant Wednesday [&hellip...
