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September 24, 2017

Turkey to build shelters for 100,000 Rohingya

Turkey would build shelters for 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, an official of Turkey’s state-run aid body said on Sunday. According to a press release, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination...

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September 24, 2017

Death toll in Black Sea boat capsize rises to 23

Turkey’s coast guard Sunday increased to 23 the death toll of migrants, who drowned when their boat sank in the Black Sea off northwestern province of Kocaeli on Friday....

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September 24, 2017

Yemen’s Hadi sees only a military solution to crisis – Arabiya TV

A solution in Yemen’s two and-a-half year-old civil war will likely come through military rather than political means, the country’s Saudi-backed president said, blaming the Iran-aligned Houthis of obstructing...

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September 24, 2017

Iran launches war games near Iraqi Kurdistan border

Iranian forces have launched war games in an area near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday, a day before a Kurdish independence referendum...

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September 24, 2017

French presidency: French soldier killed in Iraq-Syria area

A member of a French paratroop regiment serving with the US-led coalition of nations battling Daesh was killed on Saturday in combat in the Iraq-Syria region, the French army...

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September 24, 2017

3 Kurdish fighters killed, 5 wounded in blast south of oil city Kirkuk

Three Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and five wounded on Saturday when an explosive device blew up near their vehicle south of the Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, security...

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September 24, 2017

Iraq asks UN for help to build new nuclear power reactor

Iraq asked on Saturday for assistance in building a nuclear power reactor for peaceful purposes, more than 25 years after the destruction of the reactors it had under Saddam...

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September 24, 2017

Turkey extends troop deployment mandate in Iraq and Syria

Turkey’s parliament voted on Saturday to extend by a year a mandate authorising the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria, stepping up pressure against an independence referendum...

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September 24, 2017

Syrian migrant tells Germans: Cherish your democracy, go vote!

Social Democrat Martin Schulz on Saturday read out a message he received via Facebook from a young Syrian migrant who called on Germans to exercise their right to vote...

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September 24, 2017

Syria’s Foreign Minister: Victory within reach, de-escalation zones temporary

Syria’s foreign minister said on Saturday that victory was within reach in the country and that Damascus hoped de-escalation zones will help reach a cessation of hostilities. Foreign Minister...

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