BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) - France urged Russia to make Syria's government ease a dire humanitarian crisis in two rebel-held areas as more air strikes pounded them on Friday, adding to the death toll from one of the deadliest weeks of the war. President Bashar al-Assad's army, which has seized a ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey resumed airstrikes in Syria's Kurdish enclave of Afrin after a brief lull, killing and wounding several people, the military and Kurdish officials said Friday. The attacks on border areas and the main town in the region began Thursday night and have been among the ...
Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria on January 20, targeting the Kurdish YPG militia (AFP Photo/OZAN KOSE)/ Ankara (AFP) - Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday, including two military personnel when a helicopter was downed, in the bloodiest day in Ankara's ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Four more Turkish soldiers have been killed in northern Syria, the Turkish military announced late Saturday, bringing the day's death toll to 11 in what has been the most lethal day since Ankara's offensive on Syrian Kurdish militia began. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
Serpil Kemalbay, newly elected co-chairwoman of the Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), speaks during her party's extraordinary congress in Ankara, Turkey, May 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer/ ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has ordered the arrest of 17 people including the co-leader of the main ...
A man at the site of an air raid in eastern Al-Ghouta, Syria, on January 4, 2018. (Reuters)/ Turkey on Thursday said it planned to host in Istanbul a new three-way summit on Syria with the presidents of Russia and Iran aimed at reviving a drive to bring peace to the country. President Recep ...
The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran agreed on Thursday to meet in Istanbul to discuss the conflict in Syria, a Turkish presidential source said. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the meeting in two phone calls on Thursday with the Russian and Iranian presidents, the source said. The ...
Iran is the latest country to add its voice to growing calls for Turkey to curtail its military operation in Syria against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey-Iran relations have recently improved, but Tehran is seen to be increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity on the scope and duration ...
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said in a Thursday phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that using national currencies in economic transactions could accelerate Tehran-Ankara relations, Press TV reported. Rouhani also stressed that Iran-Turkey ties should reach a ...
Iran is the latest country to add its voice to growing calls for Turkey to curtail its military operation in Syria against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey-Iran relations have recently improved, but Tehran is seen to be increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity on the scope and duration ...
Air India said on Monday it had grounded one of its Boeing Dreamliners after one of its pilots reported an issue with the fuel control switch, which is at the centre of an ongoing probe into a deadly air crash last year."We have grounded said aircraft and are involving the OEM to get the ...
Ambulances waiting at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing on Monday morning/ Palestinians have started to enter the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after it reopened for the movement of people./ The crossing has largely been closed since May 2024, when the Gazan side ...
Trade union Verdi calls for a nationwide warning strike for higher wages and better working conditions, in Berlin/ An empty Alexanderplatz station, as trade union Verdi calls for a nationwide warning strike for higher wages and better working conditions, in Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2026. ...
Hind Kabawat says she would not stay in the role if she was not free to set her own strategy/ "On the first day, I asked 'why are there no more women?'," says Hind Kabawat./ She is Syria's minister for social affairs and labour - the only female minister in the transitional government tasked ...
Israel says it will ban Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from working in Gaza after the medical charity refused to hand over a list of its staff in the territory./ The Israeli government had ordered 37 organisations to submit documents about their local and international workers in Gaza, claiming ...
A general view of office buildings at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) at Gandhinagar, India, December 8, 2023.REUTERS/Amit Dave/ MUMBAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - India's federal budget on Sunday doubled the tax holiday for businesses establishing operations in a low-tax city located ...
Several strikes have been reported across the Strip, including in Khan Younis/ At least 28 people have been killed in a wave of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to local authorities./ The civil defence agency, which is operated by Hamas, says children and women ...
Iranian officials have warned of an "immediate and unprecedented" response to any US attack/ Amid the din of global speculation over US military build-up in the Middle East, Israel's leaders have remained unusually silent./ Aside from some remarks in support of Iran's anti-government protests ...
Dr Valentina Gusak's daughter Margarita was killed by Hamas on 7 October 2023/ Israel has only twice used the death penalty against a convicted prisoner. The last time was more than sixty years ago, to hang the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann./ But in the wake of the Hamas-led ...
Masarir was hacked in 2018 with invasive spyware on his iPhones/ With hundreds of millions of views, YouTuber Ghanem al-Masarir was flying high./ From his flat in Wembley, the loud-mouthed and sometimes offensive comedian was making waves as a critic of the Saudi Arabian royal family. But as ...