Turkey has started the repatriation of captured Daesh terrorists after the interior minister warned last week that Ankara would do so even if the prisoners had their citizenship revoked. A U.S. national was deported Monday [ More … ]
Turkey’s cross-border operation into northern Syria has so far neutralized 109 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists since it was launched on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Ankara launched on Wednesday the [ More … ]
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 … ]
Egypt’s armed forces Saturday continued what it describes as “intensive airstrikes against terrorist targets and gatherings” in Central and North Sinai. In a statement Saturday, an Egyptian Army spokesperson confirmed the military operation will continue [ More … ]
Europe will be increasingly at risk from terrorists posing as migrants unless western capitals help Libya to stem the numbers crossing the Mediterranean, the country’s prime minister has told The Times. Fayez al-Serraj, head of [ More … ]
The Libyan National Army spokesman Ahmed Mismari said that the Libyan National Army (LNA)and the Egyptian Defense Ministry have created an operational headquarters to coordinate airstrikes against Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Since Friday, the Egyptian Air [ More … ]
A US airstrike in Yemen killed on Sunday eight operatives of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), including a key leader, said the Pentagon. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman, said the airstrike on April [ More … ]
PKK terrorists detonate a roadside bomb while a security convoy was passing by Three soldiers were martyred and five others injured on Tuesday during an operation against PKK terrorists in southeastern Turkey, said a security [ More … ]
Bahrain has welcomed the decision by the US Department of State to designate individuals affiliated with Al-Ashtar Brigades as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) under Executive Order 13224. “This stance reflects the position of the [ More … ]
A security officer was gunned down Tuesday evening by terrorists in Qatif, a Saudi police statement said. Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, Interior Ministry spokesman, said the incident took place after a police patrol suspected a [ More … ]
Jordan on Saturday executed 15 death-row inmates, including 10 convicted terrorists, officials said. Five were members of the “Irbid cell,” said Mohammed Al-Momani, information minister and government spokesman. Others were convicted for other terror attacks [ More … ]
Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani met Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Feb. 27 to discuss the struggle against the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISL) in Iraq and Syria, Turkey’s [ More … ]
Forty-four more Daesh terrorists have been neutralized, 33 terrorist targets destroyed in northern Syria on the 173rd day of Operation Euphrates Shield Operation Euphrates Shield, led by Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces backed by Turkish [ More … ]
AK Party spokesman Aktay: Washington either supports Daesh or has been duped by the Assad regime using Daesh as a tool. Both of these theories prove that the U.S. in incapable of solving the issue [ More … ]
As part of the ongoing Euphrates Shield Operation, the Turkish military neutralizes 22 Daesh terrorists and destroys 272 Daesh positions in northern Syria in the past 24 hours The Turkish military destroyed 272 Daesh targets [ More … ]
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