Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iran's Hassan Rouhani (L), Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi in November./ Despite the eagerness to declare it ebbing, Syria's war is unlikely to get closer to its end ...
MOSCOW, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Ankara on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the Syrian settlement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the Kremlin said Monday. The three leaders will discuss measures to ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to make a two-day visit to Turkey this week for talks with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts. Putin is to meet with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on April 3 as part of the Turkish-Russian High-Level Cooperation Council The Kremlin ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host a trilateral summit on Syria on April 4 with the participation of his Iranian and Russian counterparts Hassan Rouhani and Vladimir Putin, the Turkish Presidential Press Office said in a statement on March 31. According to Anadolu Agency, besides ...
Lebanese Army troops, seen here at the site of an Israeli strike in central Beirut, will have a key role in the ceasefire deal/ The Israeli cabinet will meet to discuss approval of a ceasefire to temporarily end hostilities with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The proposed truce would reportedly ...
Food prices soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 UN aid lorries this month/ Amid severe food shortages in Gaza, increasingly violent thefts by criminal gangs are now the main obstacle to distributing supplies in the south, aid workers and locals say. They allege that armed men operate ...
The Lebanese army would be expected to increase its presence in the ceasefire zone/ Israel and Lebanon appear to be close to a ceasefire deal, with the Israeli cabinet set to meet on Tuesday to discuss it, Israeli officials say. A 60-day truce is being proposed to end fighting between Israel and ...
Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch organisation in Abu Dhabi/ Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi and said they were working to determine a motive. The ...
The Sea Story reportedly departed a port near Marsa Alam on Saturday with 31 tourists and 14 others on board/ Egyptian authorities say rescuers have found survivors after a tourist boat with 45 people on board sank in the Red Sea. A distress signal was received at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) ...
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in September. Several people were injured and buildings damaged in northern and central Israel, some of them near ...
Israel says it is investigating a claim by Hamas that a female hostage has been killed during Israeli operations in northern Gaza. The woman's identity was not revealed by Hamas, and it was unclear how or when she is said to have died. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was currently unable ...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are investigating the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual national in the UAE. Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, has been missing since Thursday, the Israeli prime minister's office said. Israel's intelligence agency ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The eight-storey structure was completely destroyed without warning, as people were sleeping in the capital's densely-populated Basta district, the BBC's Hugo Bachega said. At least 11 people ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the ...