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 ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...
Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked to the ground by a group of settlers and kicked repeatedly/ Israeli police say they have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank after attacks by settlers on an American journalist and European diplomats last week. The unnamed suspects were ...
One of the main suppliers of food aid to the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), says that it is being forced to "drastically reduce lifesaving assistance" to the Palestinian territory due to funding shortages. Overall, the number of people helped by the UN agency will drop by about a ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest/ Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. A ...