Turkey has confirmed its troops have fired at positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in a town near Mosul after receiving a request by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters for assistance. Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Sunday Turkey’s involvement in the military offensive near Bashiqa,[…]
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to step up their efforts to curb illegal migration from African countries with the aim of replicating their success in halting inflows from Turkey over the past year. While migrants reaching Greece from Turkey have dropped to a trickle after a deal with Ankara[…]
WikiLeaks reveals first batch of emails involving US President Barack Obama. Within those are emails sent from secret address used by the president. The first batch from WikiLeaks are searchable under the email address bobama@ameritech.net, an email account Obama was possibly using before winning the election in November 2008. Among[…]
Damascus has reacted harshly to the bombing of Kurdish militias in northern Syria on Thursday morning by Turkey’s air force, vowing to intervene next time Ankara sends its planes over its border. In a statement, the Syrian Defense Ministry accused Turkey of “flagrant aggression, which targeted innocent citizens,” saying that[…]
Iraqi forces launched a third front in the offensive to take back Mosul but ISIL fighters put up stiff resistance, unleashing a wave of vehicle-borne suicide bombers, while leaving a deadly trail of hidden explosive devices. Iraq’s government said on Thursday its soldiers advanced from the south and east, while[…]
The Mozambique government and opposition party Renamo have resumed talks despite the Oct. 9 killing of a senior Renamo official by unidentified gunmen, the state news agency AIM said on Wednesday. The death of Jeremias Pondeca, a member of the Joint Commission set up to find ways to overcome a[…]
Vietnam, which defeated a massive US invasion in the 1970s, says it supports Washington’s intervention in the Asia Pacific “if it brings peace, stability and prosperity” to the region, the country’s top military official told US counterparts in Hanoi. Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnam’s deputy defense minister, met on[…]
Russia announced it will broadcast live images of the evacuation of civilians and wounded people from besieged eastern Aleppo during a “humanitarian pause” it has scheduled for Thursday. The planned pause would also be extended for an additional three hours to run from 0500 to 1600 GMT, General Sergey Rudskoi[…]
One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Philippines destroyed houses, tore roofs off schools and ripped giant trees out of the ground on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of deaths. Super Typhoon Haima hit the northern province of Cagayan late on Wednesday night with winds[…]
Saudi Arabia has executed a member of its royal family for the first time in four decades. The prince was sentenced to death after being convicted of shooting and killing another man in a fight, the country’s Interior Ministry announced. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in[…]
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