These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkey has sent some refugees back to Syria from Istanbul Turkey has warned it may reopen the route for Syrian refugees to enter Europe if it does not get more international support for creating a safe zone in northern Syria. President ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Moscow/ ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke during a meeting of his ruling AK Party in Ankara - via REUTERS/ Turkey has threatened to allow millions of Syrian refugees to cross into the West unless the US agrees to help establish a safe zone to resettle them in northern Syria immediately. "We will be ...
52PM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 11:52PM ]/ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a de-escalation zone in Syria’s Idlib is facing a gradual devastation. He complained that no other country except for Turkey is willing to take any action concerning the safe zone. Turkish and US armies agreed ...
13PM [Updated: Thu Sep 5, 2019 02:25PM ]/ Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo by AFP)/ Turkey’s president says his country may be forced to stop preventing refugee flow into Europe if the European Union and the United States do not act to provide Ankara with more support towards ...
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 ...
run Yemen Petroleum Company assured residents of Sanaa that it had sufficient fuel supplies/ Missiles and drones have been intercepted over Riyadh after the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen struck a fuel depot near the Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, its spokesperson says. Maj Gen Turki ...
It was a journey at high speed through the desert - in a pick-up truck with armed fighters in the back. We were travelling with Yemen's pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance. Houthi rebels were dislodged from here just days ...
A blast was heard at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh/ Several people have been injured in an attack on an international airport in the Saudi capital, reports say, just days after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed two successful attacks on the hub. King Khalid International Airport in ...