Assad regime forces and Syrian rebels fought battles in the center of Aleppo and north of the city on Friday, while Russia in sending more warplanes to support its ongoing offensive aiming at wiping the [ More … ]
“Our biggest dream: We started dreaming of a quick death, one that is more merciful than suffocating slowly under the rubble, or the fire claiming us, or our entire family dying and one’s heart burns [ More … ]
World powers must unite to stop the daily massacres in Aleppo as the collapse of U.S.-Russian peace efforts and increasing violence would be a setback for United Nations operations aimed at saving lives, the top [ More … ]
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad finally got the opportunity to meet with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Aug. 30. In the 40-minute meeting, Ahmadinejad reportedly sought to obtain Khamenei’s view on his pursuing a possible [ More … ]
BY: İLNUR ÇEVIK* The National Security Council, meeting under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has decided to recommend to the government the extension of the State of Emergency for another three months. Is this [ More … ]
Egypt’s Court of Urgent Matters has halted the implementation of an administrative court ruling that annulled a deal to hand over Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources, reported Reuters. Egypt announced in [ More … ]
Egypt’s foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has attended the funeral of former Israel Prime minister Shimon Peres. None of the Arab world countries sent top officials except Egypt which enjoyed the so-called “warm peace” as described by [ More … ]
BY: Kemal Öztürk* He dedicated almost his entire life (93 years) to his cause. He played a part in the relentless, bloody-handed team that founded the Israeli state. He was the main actor in arming [ More … ]
– If passed, JASTA would allow victims of terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments deemed responsible Saudi Arabia has expressed its “serious concern” over proposed legislation in the U.S. that would allow the victims of [ More … ]
– Syria’s anti-regime opposition now stands only 15 kilometers from Hama city Over the past 48 hours, armed opposition groups have captured a number of villages and strategic checkpoints in Syria’s western Hama province, an [ More … ]
Egypt’s assistant prosecutor has survived an assassination attempt when a car bomb exploded in an eastern suburb of Cairo as his motorcade was passing by on Thursday evening, an interior ministry statement said, reported Reuters. [ More … ]
BY: HILAL KAPLAN* Barack Obama’s legacy cannot be read separately from the failure in Syria Russia and Assad forces have been mercilessly bombarding Aleppo for days. About 1,000 people are said to have been killed [ More … ]
– Pakistan and Iran are brotherly countries, and have no disputes, says Pakistani official, downplaying incident At a time when Pakistan is locked in border clashes with its archrival India, Iran has fired mortar shells [ More … ]
BY:İbrahim Karagül* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan finally launched the Lausanne discussion. He made the statement that ignited discussions in relation to how an empire was pillaged, how it was divided into pieces/states, how it was [ More … ]
For years, debates in the OPEC conference rooms were dominated by clashes between top producer Saudi Arabia and its arch-rival Iran. Finally, the two rival countries agreed that they need to cut crude output to [ More … ]
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