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 ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...
People living in Hassakeh now rely on deliveries of water transported by tanker/ Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law. Turkey carried out ...
seven lorries were lost after entering southern Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing (file photo)/ A convoy of 109 UN aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says. Ninety-seven of the lorries were lost and their drivers ...