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Turkey will build a spaceport in Somalia to conduct missile tests and long-range launches, the pro-government news website Sabah reported on Thursday, citing remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. President Erdoğan reportedly announced the development during a meeting of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Central Executive Committee on Friday, calling it a milestone […]

Death toll in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza crossed 44,000 on Thursday after it unleashed one of deadliest nights in a 13-month conflict, killing dozens of Palestinians across the besieged territory. A man mourns holding the body of a child killed in an Israeli strike in the Nusseirat refugee camp, Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Palestine, Nov. […]

“The real estate sector is going through the worst phase in Lebanon’s modern history,” Walid Moussa, president of the Real Estate Syndicate of Lebanon, tells Al Arabiya English. People stand on rubble at a damaged site in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Tayouneh, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, Lebanon […]

Russia launched an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight in response to Kyiv being permitted to strike Russia with U.S. and British long-range missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, vowing to respond to further “escalation.” MAXIM SHIPENKOV / POOL / AFP While the Russian leader has previously said that letting Kyiv use long-range arms against Russian […]

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister, and Hamas officials, alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity tied to the war in Gaza and the October 2023 incursion that spurred Israel’s genocidal offensive. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a program in west […]

LONDON (Tribune News Service) — Donald Trump is expected to consider recognizing Somaliland as an independent country once he assumes office, according to the former U.K. defense secretary, it was reported on Tuesday. mSomalia, located on the Horn of Africa, is shown in this map produced by the CIA World Factbook. The  self-declared Republic of […]

Warnings of a large air attack threat on the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday come a day after Ukraine used US-supplied ATACMS to strike Russian territory. Copyright AP Photo The US embassy in Kyiv has temporarily shuttered fearing an imminent “significant air attack” in the Ukrainian capital, according to a statement published on its website. “Out […]

The Somaliland electoral commission announced Tuesday that opposition leader Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” defeated incumbent Muse Bihi Abdi for the presidency of the breakaway region located on the Horn of Africa. FILE – Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, center, casts his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Wednesday, Nov. 13,2024.t Independent […]

Israeli airstrikes hit a central neighborhood in Beirut early Tuesday, near the Parliament, several embassies and the United Nations headquarters, killing at least five and injuring 31, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry and the National News Agency. Women walk past a damaged building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Zuqaq al-Blat area, […]