First Turkish school set to open in Doha
-The Turkish school has the capacity of 350 students – The first Turkish school is set to open in the Gulf Arab country of Qatar on Sunday, according to the school director, . Speaking to [ More … ]
-The Turkish school has the capacity of 350 students – The first Turkish school is set to open in the Gulf Arab country of Qatar on Sunday, according to the school director, . Speaking to [ More … ]
3 police officers martyred in Daesh explosion in SE Daesh terrorists blew themselves up during an operation on a cell house in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Sunday, martyring three police officers, said the [ More … ]
– Coalition warplanes also hitting Daesh in Mosul, according to Peshmerga commander – The U.S. military deployed to the east of Iraq’s Mosul has started shelling Daesh targets as part of an operation to retake [ More … ]
-Ankara fears that the participation of Shia militias in the Mosul offensive will stoke sectarian tension – The participation of Turkish forces in an anticipated offensive to recapture Iraq’s northern city of Mosul from Daesh [ More … ]
-Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack – At least 34 people were killed in a suicide bombing that targeted Shias in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to security and medical sources, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
– Kurdish Regional Government president says he hopes Mosul residents will soon be free of Daesh’s cruelty – Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani said Saturday that preparations are complete for retaking Mosul from [ More … ]
-More than 100 people were killed in the airstrike – An inquiry team has blamed “incorrect information” for last week’s airstrike on a funeral gathering in Yemeni capital Sanaa, which left more than 100 people [ More … ]
BY: DR. SADIK ÜNAY* It is no secret that U.S.-Turkey relations have experienced highly turbulent times recently. Two major NATO allies known to host the largest militaries in the alliance are experiencing a sharp, strategic [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* It isn’t possible to explain the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) recently accelerated attacks with its own performance, scope or capacity. Nor can it be explained with the internal tension and conflict within [ More … ]
Following a controversial UNESCO vote that saw the adoption of a draft resolution that sharply criticized Israeli policies around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while supposedly rejecting Jewish ties to the holy site — referred to by [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt on Saturday, opening both sides for two days, Egypt opens Rafah crossing for 2 days for humanitarian cases and ‘stranded people’, [ More … ]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian with live fire during clashes near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday. According to local sources, soldiers at the military outpost of Nahal Oz, [ More … ]
Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers performed Friday prayers at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the tight Israeli restrictions. Hundreds of Israeli occupation soldiers have been deployed at the entrance gates to the al-Aqsa Mosque [ More … ]
– Turkish Foreign Ministry extends condolences to ‘brotherly’ Egyptian people over attack that killed 12 in Sinai – Turkey Saturday strongly condemned Friday’s attack on an army checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that left 12 dead and eight [ More … ]
-Activists have called mass rallies on November 11 to protest price hikes in Egypt – Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has expected the failure of next month’s demonstrations called by anti-regime critics to protest recent price hikes [ More … ]
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