Amid a major hard currency crisis in Egypt the North African country is suffering a massive backlog across the country’s ports, with goods worth $9.5 billion are still stuck there. The Egyptian ports have recently [ More … ]
At least 12 civilians were killed after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up inside a popular cafe, a military source told The New Arab. Scores of people were killed in a [ More … ]
Turkey will strike the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), if they do not withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of the Islamic State of Iraq [ More … ]
Turkish airstrikes have hit PKK targets and killed 57 PKK terrorists in Northern Iraq, reports the army. Airstrikes carried out by Turkey in Metina, northern Iraq, between January 13-14 killed 57 Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) [ More … ]
A 16-year-old Palestinian detainee has had to undergo a below-the-knee amputation, due to severe injuries he sustained after an Israeli jeep hit him at an Israeli military checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district [ More … ]
An Israeli air strike hit a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip on Monday following a rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, the Israeli military said, Anadolu Agency reported. “This morning, a rocket was fired [ More … ]
– Daesh, PKK/PYD forces struck as part of Operation Euphrates Shield – Turkey’s military said Sunday it hit a total of eight Daesh and 51 PKK/PYD targets in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, [ More … ]
The U.S. hit targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen early Thursday, the Pentagon said, according to Anadolu Agency. The strikes on “three radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen’s Red Sea coast,” comes after cruise [ More … ]
The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced, according to Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil [ More … ]
– Since the start of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military has so far destroyed over 1,990 Daesh targets – The Turkish army hit at least 49 Daesh targets in northern Syria early Friday as part [ More … ]
– Coalition forces also carry out airstrike in northern Turkmen Bari region, killing 3 Daesh terrorists – The Turkish Armed Forces hit at least 78 Daesh targets in northern Syria on Wednesday as part of the [ More … ]
– Statement from Turkish military says over 1,600 Daesh targets destroyed in Operation Euphrates Shield – Over 100 residential areas across almost 1,000 kilometers of northern Syria have been cleared of terrorists since the start of [ More … ]
– Ammunition depot and shelters in Qandil Mountains hit, ‘several terrorists killed’, according to military source – Turkish warplanes destroyed PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq late Monday, a military source told Anadolu Agency Tuesday. [ More … ]
– Projectile lands near local market; ambulances, police rush to the scene – A rocket projectile fired from northwestern Syria injured six people when it hit landed in a city center in southern Turkey’s Kilis Thursday, [ More … ]
Military sources say 3 terrorist targets destroyed: weapons depot, shelter, and local HQ Turkish fighter jets destroyed three Daesh targets in northern Syria late Sunday, according to military sources, reported Anadolu Agency on Monday. A [ More … ]
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