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 ...
Palestinians attend the funeral of journalists killed in an Israeli strike/ The UN's human rights office has condemned a targeted Israeli attack that killed six journalists in Gaza, calling it a "grave breach" of international humanitarian law. Five Al Jazeera journalists, including prominent ...
Sharif had reported extensively from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said/ Five Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Sharif and another correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with ...
Meir Simcha agreed to talk, but he wanted to do it somewhere special, because for him, this is a special time. In a place where nation, religion and war are linked inextricably with politics and the possession of land, Simcha chose a patch of shade under a fig tree next to a spring of fresh ...
Gazans carry aid packages from a food distribution point in Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip/ A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths to 212, including 98 ...
About one million people still live in Gaza City, which has already seen widespread damage due to Israeli bombardment/ News of the Israeli government's decision to take over Gaza City is being met not surprisingly with despair in Gaza. Gaza City, its capital, is on a countdown to oblivion. ...
Demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday while the Israeli security cabinet convened/ has been met with concern in Israel, particularly by families of hostages still being held by Hamas. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now has said the plan "means abandoning ...
'Chilling' aerial video shows Gaza in ruins/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of all of the Gaza Strip, ahead of a key meeting where ministers are now deciding whether to back such a move. Netanyahu affirmed the intention in an interview with Fox ...
Twenty people have been killed and more than 30 injured in central Gaza after four trucks overturned on a crowd, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Crowds rushed to the vehicles on a road south east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday evening. They climbed on top of the trucks, causing the drivers ...
Hezbollah has described the Lebanese government's plans for arms control as "a grave sin"/ Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant and political movement, says it will disregard a decision by Lebanon's government to task the army with establishing a state monopoly on arms. "We will treat this ...
Scenes like these have led to condemnation of Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries/ After nearly two years of war, Hamas's military capability is severely weakened and its political leadership under intense pressure. Yet, throughout the war Hamas has managed to continue to use a secret ...