Turkey will continue its anti-terror operation in northeast Syria if an agreement with the United States to pause the operation and allow the withdrawal of People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorists is not fully implemented, Turkish [ More … ]
Unannounced visit comes as France ramps up efforts to ease tensions between Iran and US over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran‘s top diplomat has held talks with France‘s President Emmanuel Macron at the sidelines of the [ More … ]
Macron visited Egypt in January, and reportedly pressed Sisi on his rights record and urged him to respect freedoms Rights groups Thursday urged French President Emmanuel Macron to denounce the “worsening human rights crisis” under [ More … ]
Leaders from across the world gathered in Paris to mark Nov. 11 Armistice Day. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted [ More … ]
Four main Libyan political leaders attended a peace conference in Paris on Tuesday and agreed to hold elections in December Libyan rival factions agreed on Tuesday to hold elections on 10 December. The agreement was [ More … ]
US hits ‘Syrian Military Sites’, in collaboration with UK and France, as Russia and Iran warn of consequences. US President Donald Trump has ordered air attacks in Syria “on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities”, in collaboration with [ More … ]
President Erdogan travels to Paris on Friday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron while Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will be heading to the hometown of his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel, on Saturday in a [ More … ]
Lebanese PM Saad al-Hariri had been in Riyadh since announcing his resignation there on 4 November Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Paris on Saturday [ More … ]
France will respond immediately to any use of chemical weapons in Syria, France’s president has said, in a threat likely directed at the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. France will respond immediately to any [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with European officials and the newly elected French President Emanuel Macron on the sidelines of a NATO summit, in which he is expected to seek more support from the [ More … ]
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