عربي English Türkçe اردو فارسى
Logo
Latest News
World

EU Urges US to Reconsider Ban on Palestinian Officials Attending UN Assembly

Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Radmila Sekerinska and Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen attend the informal EU Defense Ministers’ meeting in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 2025/Reuters
Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Radmila Sekerinska and Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen attend the informal EU Defense Ministers’ meeting in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 2025/Reuters
TT
TT

EU Urges US to Reconsider Ban on Palestinian Officials Attending UN Assembly

Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Radmila Sekerinska and Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen attend the informal EU Defense Ministers’ meeting in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 2025/Reuters
Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Radmila Sekerinska and Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen attend the informal EU Defense Ministers’ meeting in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 2025/Reuters

European Union foreign ministers have urged the United States to reconsider its decision not to allow Palestinian officials to take part in the UN General Assembly in New York, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday.

Speaking after a meeting of the ministers in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Kallas also said she had asked EU governments to submit proposals next week for another package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine.

Also, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday to tell him that Madrid supports him after the US denied him the visa to attend the United Nations gathering.

The visa denial is "unjust", Sanchez said in a post on social media platform X.

Most Viewed

 
 
World

Israel Says Killed Iran's Intelligence Minister

Destroyed buildings of a police station and nearby houses are seen after Friday's US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Destroyed buildings of a police station and nearby houses are seen after Friday's US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
TT
TT

Israel Says Killed Iran's Intelligence Minister

Destroyed buildings of a police station and nearby houses are seen after Friday's US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Destroyed buildings of a police station and nearby houses are seen after Friday's US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Israeli forces had killed Iran's Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib.

"Last night Iran's Intelligence Minister Khatib was also eliminated," Katz said in a statement.

He added that “significant surprises are expected throughout this day on all the fronts,” without elaborating.

Khatib’s killing follows Israel killing top Iranian security official Ali Larijani and the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s all-volunteer Basij force.

The US Treasury had sanctioned Khatib in 2022, over the Intelligence Ministry “engaging in cyber-enabled activities against the United States and its allies.”

Khatib “directs several networks of cyber threat actors involved in cyber espionage and ransomware attacks in support of Iran’s political goals,” the Treasury said at the time.

The Treasury also called Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in another round of sanctions “one of the Iranian government’s main security services which is responsible for serious human rights abuses.”

“Under his leadership, the (Intelligence Ministry) has cracked down on a large number of human rights defenders, women-rights activists, journalists, filmmakers, and members of religious minority groups,” it said.

World

Kremlin Condemns US-Israeli ‘Murder’ of Iran’s Leaders After Larijani Killing

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Iran's then parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as they meet after a session of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, October 22, 2015. (Reuters)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Iran's then parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as they meet after a session of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, October 22, 2015. (Reuters)
TT
TT

Kremlin Condemns US-Israeli ‘Murder’ of Iran’s Leaders After Larijani Killing

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Iran's then parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as they meet after a session of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, October 22, 2015. (Reuters)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Iran's then parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as they meet after a session of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, October 22, 2015. (Reuters)

The Kremlin on Wednesday condemned what it called "the murder" of Iran's leaders in US-Israeli airstrikes, a day after Iran's semi-official Fars news ‌agency confirmed that ‌Ali Larijani, ‌a ⁠senior adviser to Iran's ⁠late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, had been killed in Tehran.

"We unequivocally ⁠condemn any actions ‌aimed ‌at harming the health ‌of, or indeed ‌murdering or eliminating, members of the leadership of sovereign and ‌independent Iran, as well as those of ⁠other ⁠countries. We condemn such actions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about Russia's reaction to Larijani's death.

Larijani is the most prominent figure of the country killed since Israel and the United States launched their attacks on Iran on February 28, killing Khamenei and igniting a war across the Middle East.

"Iran's response to the assassination of the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council will be decisive and regrettable," Iranian army chief Amir Hatami said in a statement.

World

Türkiye Says NATO Deploying More Defenses to Guard Southern Base

This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense press office on March 12, 2026 shows Turkish soldiers waiting in front of Incirlik military base in Adana. (Turkish Defense Ministry / Turkish Ministry of National Defense / AFP)
This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense press office on March 12, 2026 shows Turkish soldiers waiting in front of Incirlik military base in Adana. (Turkish Defense Ministry / Turkish Ministry of National Defense / AFP)
TT
TT

Türkiye Says NATO Deploying More Defenses to Guard Southern Base

This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense press office on March 12, 2026 shows Turkish soldiers waiting in front of Incirlik military base in Adana. (Turkish Defense Ministry / Turkish Ministry of National Defense / AFP)
This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense press office on March 12, 2026 shows Turkish soldiers waiting in front of Incirlik military base in Adana. (Turkish Defense Ministry / Turkish Ministry of National Defense / AFP)

NATO ‌is deploying another US Patriot missile defense system to the southern Turkish province of Adana, where personnel from the United States and other countries are located in the Incirlik Air Base, Türkiye’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Türkiye, which has NATO's second-largest army and neighbors Iran, said last week ‌the alliance ‌had deployed a Patriot ‌system to ⁠its southeastern Malatya ⁠province, near a NATO radar base, as part of steps to boost air defenses against missile threats from the Iran war.

Adana hosts Türkiye’s Incirlik Air Base, where personnel ⁠from the United States, ‌Spain, and ‌Poland are located, as well as Turkish troops.

"In ‌addition to national-level measures taken ‌to ensure the security of our airspace and our citizens, another Patriot system, commissioned by Allied Air Command in Ramstein/Germany, is ‌being deployed in Adana, in addition to the existing ⁠Spanish Patriot ⁠system stationed there," the ministry said at a weekly briefing.

Türkiye, an emerging leader in the global defense industry, lacks its own fully fledged air defenses despite development efforts, and has relied on NATO air defenses stationed in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to intercept three missiles it says were fired from Iran since the war began.