President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday./ as a blow to the global economy and a threat to regional stability. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia evidently also saw it as a chance to make ...
The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran meeting in Ankara on Monday agreed to try to ease tensions in northwest Syria’s Idlib region, but disagreements between the countries appeared to linger, especially over the threat from Islamic State./ Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Tayyip Erdogan of ...
- President Vladimir Putin said Russia is willing to help defend Saudi Arabia by selling it the advanced S-400 anti-aircraft system after major oil facilities in the kingdom came under attack at the weekend, halting half of its crude production. “For self-defense, for the defense of one’s ...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media after Friday prayers in Istanbul, Sept. 13, 2019, shortly after former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his resignation from Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in Ankara, Turkey. Davutoglu has also announced ...
Russia has offered to sell Saudi Arabia the same missile defense it sold Iran and Turkey after U.S. systems failed to detect or intercept a recent attack on key oil sites in the kingdom. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday his country was "ready to provide appropriate assistance to ...
Iran’s president said on Monday that diplomacy, not a military approach, was the only solution to the crisis in Syria, ahead of trilateral talks with his Turkish and Russian counterparts in Ankara aimed at forging a lasting truce in the region./ Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan ...
The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran meet on Monday to try to secure a lasting truce in northwest Syria following attacks by the government that risk deepening regional turmoil and pushing a new wave of migrants toward Turkey./ FILE PHOTO - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russian President ...
Erdogan/ Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan pose for a picture before their talks in Ankara, Turkey September 16, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS/ ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Russia and Iran need to take more responsibility to establish ...
28PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 01:28PM ]/ Thousands of Syrians have returned to their hometowns in the country’s northwest after government forces purged the areas of foreign-backed militants. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported that "thousands of citizens returned" to their villages ...
22AM [Updated: Tue Sep 17, 2019 02:22AM ]/ The presidents of Turkey, Iran, and Russia held their 5th trilateral summit in the Turkish capital Ankara to discuss a political resolution to Syria’s eight-year conflict. The three presidents held a meeting followed by a joint presser where Turkish ...
38PM [Updated: Mon Sep 16, 2019 03:41PM ]/ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on September 16, 2019. (Photo by IRNA)/ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says cooperation among Iran, Russia, and Turkey, as the three ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) pose before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on September 16, 2019. (AFP photo)/ The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says use of local currencies in bilateral trade with Turkey would ...
Members of the Syrian government forces are transported in the back of military vehicles toward the town of Khan Shaykhun in the northern Idlib province on August 24, 2019, after they announced the total control of the city a day before. (Photo by AFP)/ The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey ...
GRAPHIC CONTENT This file photo taken on January 20, 2014 shows the scene of a double suicide car bombing at the Bab al-Hawa border post between Syria and Turkey which killed at least 16 people and wounded 20 more. (Photo by AFP)/ A car bomb has struck the Al-Rai town near the Turkish border in ...
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 ...