Lieutenant General (retired) Noman Mahmood has been appointed as the first Secretary-General of the Mecca Defence Pact. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Secretary-General will lead the alliance’s General Secretariat, which is to be established in Riyadh. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan confirmed last month that the Secretary-General of the Mecca Defence Continue Reading

Moving beyond years of crisis and mistrust in the Middle East, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi held a historic meeting aimed at increasing cooperation and rebuilding bilateral relations. The summit was held yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a major international forum in […]Continue Reading

Asarul Sheikh was returning home from Kerala in the last week of August. But police picked him up from an area near a railway station in his home district of Murshidabad, West Bengal. The migrant worker from Murshidabad was accused of being a Bangladeshi national and taken to the Lalgola detention centre, located 15 kilometres […]Continue Reading

Canada has announced C$100 million in new assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Of the announced amount, C$80 million will be spent on humanitarian assistance. The remaining C$20 million will go toward development […]Continue Reading

In response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to “completely destroy or wipe out” Iran, Iran’s military has warned the United States and Israel that any new attack would trigger an “unexpected and crushing” retaliation. In a joint statement, the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces and the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters described Mr. Trump’s […]Continue Reading