Egyptian security forces in the western province of Gharbia defused a bomb inside the Mary Girgis Church in Tanta, Egypt’s fifth largest governorate. The police forces received reports that a bomb had been discovered inside the [ More … ]
A campaign has been launched by activists in the United States to highlight the unprecedented human rights violations in Egypt in the run-up to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s White House meeting next week. This week, the White [ More … ]
Academics speak out after Ankara’s fall out with EU states over block on Turkish ministers’ referendum campaigns EU rules on political expression have failed to keep up with the free movement of people across the [ More … ]
End of Operation Euphrates Shield does not mean threats against Turkey are completely over, Fikri Isik says The end of Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria does not mean threats are over, Defense Minister Fikri [ More … ]
Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea with missiles, mines and other sophisticated defenses on a key strait, US Central Command Chief has said. The Bab Al-Mandab [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump has approved a Pentagon request to allow US special operations forces to accompany Somali troops and call in airstrikes against al-Shabaab without higher level approval. US President Donald Trump has approved [ More … ]
A Belarusian minister has used the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties with Ankara to describe Turkey as a “key partner”. Minsk valued its relationship with Ankara, Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Kravchenko told Anadolu Agency [ More … ]
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım early on March 30 as part of his trip to Ankara, with the two leaders discussing developments in Syria and Iraq [ More … ]
Palestinians across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory held protests and marches on Thursday for Land Day — the day in 1976 when Israel confiscated approximately 21,000 dunums of historic Palestinian land across Israel, sparking [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* We decided on July 15 what plans the men lined up in front of the pope had with Turkey, what kind of future they were headed toward, what kind of identity-aligned partnership they [ More … ]
A suicide truck bomber targeted a police checkpoint in Iraq’s Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing 17 people and wounding at least 60 others, in a new chapter of suicide attacks that rocked the Iraqi capital in [ More … ]
US-backed Iraqi forces advanced amid heavy lashes to edge closer to the al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul on Wednesday, tightening their control over the old city as concerns were raised again over the safety of civilians. [ More … ]
Nearly 40,000 people, mostly women and children, have been displaced over the past week by fighting northwest of Syria’s Hama city between the regime and the revolutionaries, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Alliance of revolutionaries [ More … ]
Assad regime forces fought fiercely in Syria’s Hama to reverse the revolutionaries’ latest advancement, as warplanes pounded the rebel-held areas heavily and reports said that signs of chemical attacks were clearly found. Alliance of revolutionaries and [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN* It seems that the strife between Turkey and the EU will not end soon. The hostile attitude of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland is forcing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to respond harshly. [ More … ]
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