Turkey and Russia agreed on Wednesday that their next three-way summit with Iran to discuss the conflict in Syria will be held in Istanbul, a Turkish presidential source said. The source said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin also agreed in a telephone call ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit on Wednesday for talks on bilateral and regional issues, Iran Daily reported. During his one-day stay in the capital Tehran, Cavusoglu is scheduled to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his counterpart ...
MANBIJ, Syria (AP) — On the ground in Syria, the top U.S. general in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group pledged on Wednesday that American troops would remain in the northern Syrian town of Manbij despite Ankara's demands for a U.S. pullout. "We're here to ensure the lasting defeat ...
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Wednesday amidst rising tension over Syria. Earlier this week, Iran urged Turkey to stop its military offensive in Syria, saying the operation in the northern Afrin region ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will travel to Iran later on Wednesday to hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said. In a news conference in Ankara, spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Turkey’s ...
TEHRAN – Being a vocal critic of the entry of Turkish troops into northwestern Syria, Iran reiterated on Wednesday that Ankara should respect international borders. “Our advice is that Turkey respect the international borders,” Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy advisor to the Leader, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani are in regular contact to discuss the conflict in Syria, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters on a phone call on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added that the ...
Kremlin/ MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, the Kremlin said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said the two leaders talked about the search for a political settlement in Syria, the Israeli-Palestinian ...
right protesters broke into Sde Teiman base after military police questioned reservists over the video/ The Israeli military's top lawyer has resigned after saying that she was responsible for the leaking of a video that purportedly shows soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee last ...
Red Cross staff transferred the two coffins to Israeli forces in Gaza/ Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Israeli forces will now ...
Footage shows scale of ultra-Orthodox protest against conscription/ Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of ...
The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to "dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure" (file photo)/ Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The ...
First responders say Israel's overnight strikes hit residential areas, schools and tents housing displaced families/ When is a ceasefire no longer a ceasefire? It depends on who you ask. According to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, "nothing is going to jeopardise" the truce between ...
Four people were killed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza/ At least 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The Israeli military said it struck "dozens of terror targets and ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...
Downing an Israeli drone is a rare action by the UN's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as Unifil/ The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says it shot down an Israeli drone that flew over a patrol operating in the south of the country on Sunday, in the latest incident involving the force ...