Europe & Russia

Turkiye is set to deliver an undisclosed number of armed drones to Kuwait in a contract worth $370 million, Turkish defence firm, Baykar, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. International...

A former United States' National Security Advisor has called on the NATO military alliance to expel Turkiye and give support to its opposition parties, accusing it of not acting...

President Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Wednesday that Turkiye would hold elections on 14 May, a month earlier than he had earlier flagged, setting the clock ticking on perhaps the...

Israel has appealed to Pope Francis, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday to help it recover four citizens...

The ministry of foreign affairs in Paris has called for the immediate release of French-Irish citizen Bernard Phelan who has been detained in Iran since October last year, Anadolu...

The Israeli authorities have deported an Italian activist after arresting her during a raid on the home of an imprisoned Palestinian journalist in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the...

The Moroccan government has filed a lawsuit in Belgium against an Israeli woman who claims that she is a Jew of Moroccan origin and her father is the late...

A senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister has said that there will be no solution in Syria without Tehran. His country is involved in all issues related to...

Egypt's economic crisis is pushing the country's middle class to the brink of poverty, Agence France-Presse has reported. Currency devaluation and rampant inflation are forcing many families to take...

Yemenis ranked third among Arab nationals who bought property in Turkiye last year, Yemen Shabab.net has reported. Data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute on Tuesday showed that Yemeni...

Terrorists in Syria are the main threat to the country rather than the presence of Turkish forces, a Turkish official has insisted after a recent demand by the Syrian...

A German national has been reportedly arrested by Iran's security agencies for taking photographs at an oilfield in south-western Khuzestan province, Anadolu News Agency reports. Jam-e Jam newspaper, which...

Swedish Public Prosecution said on Monday that hanging of an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by PKK/PYD in Stockholm does not need criminal investigation. "A decision has...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed issues related to Ukraine and Syria with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a phone call on Monday, the Kremlin has reported. Putin...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar met his British counterpart Ben Wallace in London on Monday. The two officials discussed regional defence and security issues as well as bilateral cooperation...

Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, announced last week that travellers with a visa would be required to be insured before-hand to discourage irregular migration, Anadolu Agency reports. According to the...

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkiye before the Turkish Parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said, Reuters reports. The two Nordic...

The cargo ship, "MKK 1", travelling from Ukraine to Turkiye, was grounded in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Monday, and traffic in the Strait was suspended for a few hours, shipping agents,...

The top Court in London granted an appeal to a charity which challenged the Court's decision that the government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda while their status...

A major Swedish bank continues to host an active account fundraising for the outlawed and designated terror group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), despite efforts by Sweden's government to...

Officials in Sweden have requested more time to process and codify laws that would gain Turkiye's approval for its NATO membership bid, as the time grows shorter leading up...

Iran has doubled the market rate of the price of a barrel of oil to $70 for Syria, reports The Wall Street Journal, has asked its ally to pay...

The envoys of several EU countries have expressed concerns about Israel's unilateral measures that will undermine the two-state solution, Haaretz reported on Sunday. Since the Israeli election results were...

Iran will receive Russian Su-35 fighter jets within three months under an agreement with Moscow, an Iranian parliamentarian said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Shahriar Heidari, a member of the...

Turkiye's president has condemned the Taliban government's banning of female higher education in Afghanistan, calling it "un-Islamic." Last month, Afghanistan's Taliban government decided to suspend university education for women,...

The Turkish Parliament speaker, foreign minister and other senior Turkish officials slammed Sweden on Friday over allowing a PKK/YPG provocative show in Stockholm. "We saw another provocation by the...

Syrians in most areas controlled by the Syrian opposition took to the streets on Friday to protest against the possible reconciliation between Damascus and Ankara, news agencies reported. The...

Migrants made nearly 330,000 attempts to enter the European Union (EU) without a permit last year – the highest number since 2016, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency...

Pret A Manger is facing increasing pressure to scrap plans to launch its popular coffee chain in apartheid Israel. FOA has launched the #PretAPartheid campaign in response to the...

The General Secretariat of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad held its fourth meeting on Friday in Istanbul, Turkiye, under the title "Raise your flag". The meeting was attended...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denounced the Taliban's order to ban university and primary education for Afghanistan's women as "un-Islamic", local Turkish media reports. "It is inhumane and un-Islamic,"...

Italy fully supports Turkiye's mediation efforts between Russia and Ukraine, said Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, AA reports. "Thanks to its geostrategic position...