Turkey's President and leader of ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Erdogan on Tuesday called on NATO to take a stance against the United States, a fellow ally, over its plans to form a ...
Fawza Youssef, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician is pictured at her office in Qamishli/ Fawza Youssef, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician is pictured at her office in Qamishli, Syria January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Rodi Said/ QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Kurdish-led regions of Syria are looking to a ...
Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces place flags at Naim Square after liberating Raqqa, Syria October 18, 2017./ LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday a new U.S.-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international law and Syrian ...
Iran has condemned the U.S. plan to create a 30,000-strong force inside Syria to protect territory held by the Kurdish-Arab coalition that helped oust the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) from most of northeastern Syria. The U.S.-led coalition worked with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ...
With the offensive against IS winding down, the coalition and its allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance are beginning to shift their focus to border security (AFP Photo/BULENT KILIC)/ Beirut (AFP) - The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to ...
Iran says a U.S. plans to form a new border security force in Syria will cause more instability and "add flames of fire" in the war-torn country./ The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says the U.S. plan for a new Kurdish-led force will further complicate the conflict in Syria ...
TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held separate talks on Tuesday with Syrian, Iraqi, Qatari, Senegalese and Algerian parliament speakers on the sidelines of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) in Tehran. During his meeting with Qatari Parliament Speaker Ahmad bin ...
The UN peacekeeping agency in southern Lebanon has said four of its soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack on one of its bases. The Italian soldiers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) base in Shama, south-west Lebanon, ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...