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The assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into a “wider conflict,” the chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation said on Wednesday. Speaking at an extraordinary meeting for the foreign ministers of member states, Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara said the killing served only to “escalate the existing tensions potentially leading to a wider conflict that could involve the entire region.” Haniyeh’s death “will not quell the Palestinian cause but rather it amplifies it, underscoring the urgency for justice and human rights for the Palestinian people,” Tangara, whose country currently chairs the OIC, said.…

The International community must act to stop “genocide” in Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday. “The international community must do its part to stop the genocide and put the necessary pressure on Israel and its supporters,” Fidan said on X. “Türkiye will exert every effort possible on this path,” he added. “Emboldened by the impunity it has received for its crimes, Israel is killing more and more innocent Palestinians every day,” Fidan said. He noted that Türkiye has submitted an application to the International Court of Justice to join the genocide case filed against Israel. Earlier, Türkiye…

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto sees the EU as a “lie factory” for obstructing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s peace initiative, supporting the halt of oil transit, and making accusations regarding migration policy. As Szijjarto wrote on his Facebook page (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in Russia), the productivity of the “Brussels lie factory” was not hampered by either facts or the traditional summer lull, “and it is clear that constant failures do not hinder its work either.” “The Brussels lie factory attacked the [Budapest] peacekeeping mission initially after Viktor Orban’s trips to Kiev, Moscow, Beijing…

In a phone call with the President of France, Iran’s President emphasized that Iran’s right to respond appropriately to the crimes of the Zionist regime is reserved and said: If the Westerners seek to prevent insecurity in the region, they should immediately stop supporting the Zionist regime. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers avoiding war and trying to establish world peace and security as one of its fundamental principles, but within the framework of international treaties and laws, it will never remain silent in the face of encroachment on its interests and security. Massoud…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty emphasized that lasting peace in the region requires a two-state solution, establishing an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. FM Abdelatty stated this at a joint press conference on Tuesday with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib, urging international and regional parties to respect state sovereignty and territorial integrity. Abdelatty highlighted that Cairo is destined and responsible as a major regional state to prevent the situation from escalating into a full-scale war. Egypt undertook this role not upon other parties’ request, but because “Egypt’s fundamental, national, and regional interests…

Türkiye on Wednesday submitted a declaration to the UN’s highest court saying that it is joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. The Turkish delegation including Turkish Ambassador in The Hague Selcuk Unal and Justice and Development (AK) Party Istanbul lawmaker Cuneyt Yuksel submitted Türkiye’s file to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Türkiye thus became a party to the genocide case, joining Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, and Spain, who have also joined South Africa, which first filed the case last December. Ankara’s move is expected to be pivotal to the case, and is likely to encourage other countries…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has started a meeting with the heads of security agencies, the Defense Ministry, the General Staff and the Federal Security Service (FSB) on the situation in the Kursk Region. Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov are taking part in the meeting in person, while General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov participates in the meeting in a videoconference format. The Russian president announced such a meeting earlier at a summit with members of the government, which he held earlier at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow. Putin emphasized that “the…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday held a meeting with the ambassadors of Arab League nations. The meeting was announced on the X social media platform by the Turkish Foreign Ministry. “Our Minister Hakan Fidan met with the ambassadors of Arab League countries in Ankara,” it said. The meeting highlights Türkiye’s ongoing diplomatic engagements with the Arab League, fostering dialogue and cooperation between Türkiye and the member states of the regional organization. Source: Anadolu Agency

Tuesday’s Ukrainian attack on the borderline Russian region of Kursk is yet another terrorist attack against civilians, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio. “That was yet another terrorist attack that obviously targeted peaceful residents, civilians,” the diplomat said. Meanwhile, the number of those injured in a massive Ukrainian attack has risen to 28, the region’s chief consultant surgeon Andrey Loktionov told reporters. On August 6, the Kursk Region came under a massive Ukrainian attack. Russian air defense systems downed 26 unmanned aerial vehicles and several rockets in the skies over the region as a Ukrainian attempt to…

Ukrainian troops, using a drone, attacked an ambulance in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, killing its driver and a paramedic and wounding a doctor, acting regional Governor Alexey Smirnov said. “Ukrainian Nazis hit an ambulance near Sudzha with a drone. Its driver and a paramedic were killed, a doctor was wounded. Our medics are real heroes while the terrorists who strike ambulances will be justly punished. My sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the deceased,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. Source: TASS