BY: Yasin Aktay* Turkey has been hosting 3.5 million guests who had to take refuge in our country to save their lives since the civil war started in Syria. In addition to this, it is estimated that [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Our region is facing two kinds of violence, threats and invasion. The first one which is going to leave its mark on this century is the Western invasion. This occupation, while exploiting the [ More … ]
US Defense Secretary Mattis claims the weapons sent to the YPG militia will be retrieved once Daesh is defeated. The weapons sent to the PKK’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, in Syria’s Raqqa, will be retrieved [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* The U.S.-led coalition hit the Iran-backed regime forces three times in the last month near Tanf in Syria’s southeast. The first of the attacks took place on May 18, the day [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday stressed continued cooperation with the U.S. against terrorism during his first meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. We are committed to fighting all kinds of [ More … ]
Sudan’s Defence Minister Awad Ibn Ouf and his Nigerian counterpart Mansur Mohammed Dan-Ali Monday have discussed issues of common concern between the two countries. Following the meeting, Ibn Ouf told reporters they agreed to promote [ More … ]
Mohammed Al-Ghasri, the spokesman of the defense ministry of the UN-proposed government, has revealed that the end of Khalifa Haftar is approaching and the current clashes in southern Libya has already kicked it off. The [ More … ]
Libya’s neglected south risks becoming an arena for score-settling between rival governments as their forces clash over the most important airbase in the south. Libya’s southern desert, long neglected by central authorities, risks becoming an [ 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 … ]
BY: Kemal Öztürk* Let’s grasp the severity of the situation. These are not the reactions of minority racists and populist politicians alone.These incidents will not remain limited merely to the Netherlands, Austria and Germany. The bans [ More … ]
Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government seized the headquarters of a rival militia loyal to former National Salvation Government on Wednesday in a third day of intense fighting for control of Tripoli. The capital has [ More … ]
Struggle for Ras Lanuf refinery and nearby Sidr depot threatens to spiral into all-out conflict between Libya’s east and west. Hundreds if not thousands of armed men are converging on Libya’s main oil shipping terminals, [ More … ]
Seven Yemeni soldiers and eight rebels were killed in heavy fighting over the past 24 hours near the Red Sea coastal town of Al-Mokha, medical and security sources said Saturday. The historic port was [ More … ]
BY: Kemal Öztürk* Things have become mixed up in the U.S. Europe has also joined this great debate. There are ongoing harsh reactions toward President Donald Trump’s racist executive order that triggers hatred for Muslims and [ More … ]
Turkey’s threat to close its strategic southern Incirlik Air Base to US-led international coalition flights seem to have paid off, according to analysts. The US recently announced its decision to provide regular aerial intelligence to [ More … ]
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