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The United States yesterday condemned cross-border attacks on Turkish soil and offered condolences for the killings of two Turkish police officers in northern Syria, Anadolu reported. "We condemn the cross-border attack...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc was unable to persuade Turkey to abandon the purchase of Russia's S-400 defence system and replace them with systems made by Western...

The President of the United States (US) Joe Biden has suffered huge reputational damage following the secret pact signed between Australia, the UK and the US, which has become...

When Australia cancelled its French submarine deal and replaced it with a US nuclear submarine deal, Switzerland followed a similar path, deciding to buy the F-35 aircraft from America...

Turkey wants to reorder the Russian S-400 missile defence system, despite objections from NATO and the US, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revealed. According to Al Jazeera, Erdogan said...

The head of Libya's Presidency Council said on Saturday he would urge candidates in elections proposed for December not to take part unless there was consensus on the vote's...

The world watched as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and seized the capital Kabul, and the faction announcement of an interim government on 7 September was further evidence of...

Suddenly, the idea put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the hurried US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan,...

NATO announced on Monday that it evacuated over 500 Afghan former employees and their families from the Taliban-controlled country, Anadolu Agency reported. "More than 500 Afghans who have worked with NATO...

A safe house in Libya is providing refuge for migrants trying to escape from the militias across the country. Founded in 2015 and funded by donations from local residents...

Celebratory gunfire resounded across the Afghan capital today as the Taliban took control of the airport following the withdrawal of the last US troops, marking the end of a...

For twenty years, two dominant narratives have shaped our view of the illegal US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Neither would readily accept the use of such terms as...

England's military presence in Afghanistan came to an end after 20 years as the remaining UK troops have left, Britain's defense chief said late Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency. "At...

Turkey has not made a final decision on a Taliban request for support to run Kabul airport after foreign forces withdraw over security concerns and uncertainty there, President Tayyip...

In recent weeks, a lot of time has been spent scrutinising the timing of the US military withdrawal instead of debating who has benefited the most from the presence...

Further light has been shed on the pervasive use of Israeli weapons in Afghanistan as US troops pull out in what is seen as an embarrassing defeat for the...

Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport said yesterday that it may soon sign a new contract with Turkey on the supply of more S-400 air defence missile systems, RIA Novosti reports. A new...

Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace...

Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag,...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday the negotiating process with Iran to revive a 2015 nuclear deal could not go on indefinitely, and that the ball...

Let's stop all the hand wringing and angst over Afghanistan. Now. It's fooling no one. America, Britain and their NATO allies have had 20 years to help put the...

Twenty years have passed since the US invasion of Afghanistan, President George W Bush's response to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the responsibility...

The Taliban tell Turkey to leave Afghanistan or face attacks

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Greece is maintaining its provocative stances that exacerbate tensions by ignoring the law and not respecting agreements it has signed. This came in...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin met yesterday to discuss a plan for Ankara to operate and guard Afghanistan's Kabul airport after NATO forces...

The United Arab Emirates has asked Italy to withdraw aircraft and personnel from a military base in the Gulf state by July 2, an Italian government source said on...

Algerian researcher and adviser to the Afghanistan High Peace Council (HPC) Abdullah Anas confirmed that Turkey's proposal that its forces remain to secure Kabul International Airport after the departure of NATO forces...

Turkey will not send additional troops to Afghanistan as part of a plan to run and secure Kabul's airport following the U.S. and NATO pullout from the country, Turkish...

German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer called on Turkey to negotiate on its gas exploration plans in a disputed area of the Mediterranean Sea also claimed by European Union members Greece and Cyprus, DW reports....

NATO security officials are in talks with Qatar about providing a military base to help train Afghan army units after foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan later this year, Reuters reports. "We are holding talks to earmark a...

The NATO summit in Brussels on Monday kicked off with US President Joe Biden's awkward fist-bump with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Their meeting came weeks after Biden...

NATO leaders at the Brussels summit yesterday agreed to maintain funding for the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan ends, and will...