06-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies JERUSALEM/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said his country remains open to fully normalizing ties with Israel and joining the Abraham Accords, telling the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Manama Dialogue Conference over the weekend in Bahrain …

04-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CAIRO/ SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS: The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will face some form of food crisis next year, according to United Nations agencies. More than half …

03-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ MELBOURNE: The French government has launched a “massive and unprecedented” wave of measures to combat what it calls religious “extremism”, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said, adding that 76 mosques are suspected of “separatism”. Darmanin on Thursday tweeted his interview …

02-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks on the continuing farmers’ protests in India have not gone down well with the Hindu nationalist government, which dubbed his comments as “unwarranted”. “We have seen some ill-informed comments by Canadian leaders relating to …

30-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DOHA: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for talks aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring Gulf countries, according to media reports in the United States. A senior official …

29-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ GHAZNI/ ISLAMABAD: A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 29 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting Afghan forces in recent months. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Ghazni, …

29-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ MAIDUGURI: One of world most dangerous terrorist organizations and a closest affiliation with well known anti-Shia groups affiliated with Daesh also known Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State (ISIS/ IS) which has partially been converted into Islamic State of Iraq …

28-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS: Thousands have taken to the streets against increase “White Terrorism”, discrimination, Islamophobia, anti-Islam, anti-Muslim and a new French law that would restrict sharing images of police, only days after the country was shaken by footage showing officers beating and racially abusing a Black …

28-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN: Iran has vowed to avenge the killing of its most senior nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated near Tehran on Friday. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand County. Hossein Dehghan, military advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali …

27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN: Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country’s defence ministry has confirmed. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand County. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing “as …