Russia lifts ban on charter flights to Turkey
Russia has lifted its ban on charter flights to Turkey, the government has revealed. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the directive lifting the nine-month ban on such flights, although...
August 29, 2016
Russia has lifted its ban on charter flights to Turkey, the government has revealed. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the directive lifting the nine-month ban on such flights, although...
August 29, 2016
The Egyptian government passed a bill on Sunday to toughen the punishment for anyone found practising female genital mutilation (FGM). Those convicted now face up to 15 years hard...
August 29, 2016
Gunmen from the Sabeiha tribe have been surrounding soldiers loyal to Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi since Sunday afternoon. The pro-government troops are in a compound in the...
August 28, 2016
The ‘spring’ of the title has a double meaning. Mainly it refers to the life-giving spring in the village of Nabi Saleh on the West Bank, taken over by...
August 28, 2016
The UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan in Tunisia used to be one of the greatest centres of Islamic scholarship and Quranic learning between the ninth and eleventh centuries....
August 28, 2016
While the Guardian’s Simon Jenkins decries the West’s “meddling” in Syria – and suggests that “We must step back” – his humane cri de coeur touches fleetingly on the...
August 28, 2016
A roadside bomb allegedly planted by the PKK has killed a Turkish soldier in Turkey’s south-eastern province of Hakkari on Sunday, wounding three others, a security official said. Security forces...
August 28, 2016
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has thanked Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa for the Gulf state’s solidarity shown during Turkey’s defeated July 15 coup plot. The Turkish premier met...
August 28, 2016
No one was hurt after PKK militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on an airport in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province, the governor’s office said in a statement. It said...
August 28, 2016
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced the full liberation of al-Khalidiya Island in western Iraq from Daesh. In a televised statement late Saturday, al-Abadi said Iraqi troops had...