The three suicide bombers in the deadly gun and bomb attack on Istanbul’s international airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish government official has said. The official gave no further details beyond confirming the attackers’ nationalities and declined to be named because details of the investigation have not[…]
There will be no minute of silence to remember the victims of Tuesday’s tragic terror attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in Turkey at any of the Euro 2016 quarter-final games, which kick off this evening, the UEFA has confirmed. Rob Harris, a journalist from the Associated Press, said that the[…]
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy near the capital, Kabul, that killed dozens of recruits. At least 27 people were killed and another 40 wounded in the suicide blasts, a government official told the Reuters news agency. Mousa Rahmati, the district governor of Paghman,[…]
OPINION by Mohammed Omer Abu Ramy stands on a street in Rafah, selling sweets from a donkey cart to make a living. And he is angry – at Turkey’s renewal of ties with Israel, and its decision to drop demands that Israel ends the siege of Gaza. “They left us[…]
Two days after Turkey announced its reconciliation agreement with Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went on the offensive against the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, the organization behind the May 2010 flotilla to Gaza Strip that sparked the crisis between Jerusalem and Ankara. “Did you ask me before you set sail?[…]
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the United Nations General Assembly to “immediately suspend” Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council because of numerous serious human rights violations. “Saudi Arabia has committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its time as a Council member,[…]
Data recovered from one of the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month showed smoke alarms had sounded on board, while soot was found on the wreckage, an Egyptian-led investigative committee has said. Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo when it crashed in the[…]
Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as the 16th president of the Philippines in front of an audience of 600 guests and millions more watching on television and online, crowing a rise from little-known mayor to leader of a huge nation. His youngest child by his side holding the family[…]
The United Nations Security Council agreed on Wednesday to add just over 2,500 peacekeepers to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been hit by a series of deadly attacks and has become the deadliest place to serve for U.N. peacekeepers. The French-drafted resolution, which was approved unanimously by[…]
At least 36 people have been killed in attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, which the Turkish prime minister said was likely carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq of the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) group. Binali Yildirim said three suicide bombers were involved in the attack late on Tuesday[…]
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