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North Korea claims that about eight hundred thousand of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation's military to fight against the United States.
According to North Korea's state newspaper, the eight hundred thousand students and workers from around the country enlisted and re-enlisted in one single day.
This rather impressive claim came after North Korea launched its Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in response to ongoing U.S-South Korea military drills.
North Korea fired the ICBM into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan just hours before South Korea's president flew to Tokyo for a summit to discuss ways to counter a nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Egypt and Turkey took another step towards mending relations when Ankara's top diplomat visited Cairo for the first time since ties were ruptured a decade ago and held talks with his Egyptian counterpart.
Relations between the countries were severely strained in 2013. That was when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's then-army chief, led the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, an ally of Ankara. Since 2021, tension between the two countries has gradually thawed. At a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said talks with Turkey on the possibility of restoring ties to ambassadorial level would happen at "the appropriate time". He termed the talks "honest, deep and transparent".
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Russian State Media reported that President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Mariupol. It was the Kremlin leader's first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the start of the war.
The visit to Mariupol came on the heels of an unannounced visit Putin paid to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine. It was, also, just two days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Egypt hosted Israeli and Palestinian officials in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in a U.S. and Jordanian backed effort to calm a surge of violence in the West Bank. The five-way meeting followed the Feb. 26th U.S.-brokered summit in Jordan, the first of its kind in years, that secured Israeli and Palestinian pledges to de-escalate.
The best of intensions aside, that summit did not end in success. It was challenged by factions on both sides and failed to halt the violence on the ground.
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Syrian President Bashar al Assad arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for an official visit. On this trip, the Syrian president was accompanied by his wife Asma al Assad.
Long isolated by the Arab world, more and more Arab states have signaled an openness to easing the isolation of Damascus. This visit was marked with more ceremony than the trip Assad paid to the UAE last year. Last year was Assad’s first to an Arab state since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. During that war Gulf states, including the UAE, backed the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad and his regime.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia have begun to get cozy, diplomatically speaking. They are re-establishing ties and the Iranian government has offered a proposal to Saudi Arabia. According to the Iranian foreign minister, Iran has suggested three locations for a meeting at the foreign ministry level.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told a news conference in Tehran that his country had agreed to the meeting. What he did not reveal, however, was the suggested locations or the time table for the meeting.
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Palestinian terrorist group Hamas praised a shooting attack in which an Israeli man was seriously wounded in the Palestinian West Bank town of Huwara. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem called the attack a "natural response to the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people”. "The resistance in the West Bank” he said “is getting stronger, more present and more rooted, and all security forces cannot stop it or bypass it".
One has to ask how it is possible to publicly support attacks against innocent civilians, in this case, an innocent family driving in their car. The father - a dual citizen of both Israel and America, and an ex-marine, managed to shoot and wound his attacker even after sustaining a shot to the head.
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