BY: YUSUF SELMAN İNANÇ* While Ankara and Tehran have declared their opposition to the Iraqi Kurdistan referendum in a rare instance of common political policy not seen since the Syrian civil war began, their motivations [ More … ]
Qatar has said that five suspected computer hackers have been arrested in Turkey in connection with a cyber attack on Qatar’s state news agency last May. Qatar has said that five suspected computer hackers have [ More … ]
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl was killed on Saturday after being struck by an Israeli vehicle in the Jordan Valley of the northeastern occupied West Bank, according to Israeli sources. According to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba [ More … ]
The shipment included storm howitzer artillery and M114s that were sent to the Turkish district of Elbeyli on the Turkey-Syria border A military shipment of storm howitzer artillery and M114s were transported to Turkey’s Elbeyli [ More … ]
BY: HILAL KAPLAN* Today marks the anniversary of the beginning of Operation Euphrates Shield in which Turkey cleared two major cities from Daesh with the help of Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces. Turkish territory was targeted [ More … ]
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj will visit Khartoum on Sunday for talks with the Sudanese government officials on bilateral relations, the semi official Sudanese Media Center (SMC) announced on Thursday. The head of the of [ More … ]
Saudi-led airstrike has killed civilians, including women and children, in capital, Sanaa. At least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an airstrike on Friday in a residential neighbourhood of Yemen’s capital [ More … ]
With expectations surrounding US peace efforts low among Palestinian leadership, Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, has arrived in the region, where he and other members of a US delegation met [ More … ]
Amnesty has said that civilians are trapped in the city while according to Airwars several hundred of civilians have died since June The US-led coalition campaign to oust the Islamic State group (IS) from Syria’s [ More … ]
Russia’s ambassador to Sudan Mirgayas Shirinsky has been found dead at his residence in the capital Khartoum. Russian ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinsky, has been found dead at his residence in the capital Khartoum, foreign [ More … ]
Ukraine and Turkey are the “natural and real” partners, Andrii Sybiha, Kiev’s ambassador in Ankara told Anadolu Agency. “Our main duty is to form a cooperation with key countries like Turkey and to maintain it [ More … ]
A Saudi-led coalition airstrike killed at least 35 civilians, mainly farmers, near a Houthi camp on Wednesday morning, after a tense night in the Yemeni capital. Scores of civilians were killed in a Saudi-led coalition [ More … ]
Reports emerged this week that the Trump administration was working with the Israeli government to obstruct the publication of a United Nations “blacklist” of companies working in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. [ More … ]
Europe will be increasingly at risk from terrorists posing as migrants unless western capitals help Libya to stem the numbers crossing the Mediterranean, the country’s prime minister has told The Times. Fayez al-Serraj, head of [ More … ]
Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and Chadian Prime Minister Albert Padacké Tuesday discussed bilateral ties and ways to tighten control of the borders between the two countries. In press statements following the meeting, Padacké said the [ More … ]
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